Hoosier Ag Today

 As engines prepare to roar to life at the Indianapolis 500 this Sunday, one of the race’s most enduring traditions — a bottle of cold milk in Victory Circle — remains as much a part of

  Rookie drivers for this year’s Indianapolis 500 were celebrated Wednesday at the track, and there’s yet another tradition unfolding in the month of May. “So, it’s funny, at the Rookie Celebration, we always debut and people

Janis E. Highley, an Indiana agricultural leader whose career carried her from Indiana Farm Bureau county meetings to the upper ranks of statewide advocacy, died Tuesday, May 19, 2026. She was 57. Highley, of Warren, Indiana, built

The Trump administration on Tuesday unveiled an expansive plan to accelerate domestic fertilizer production, casting the effort as both an economic imperative for American farmers and a strategic response to global instability that has disrupted agricultural supply

A tentative easing of tensions between the United States and China is rippling through America’s farm belt, where a new trade commitment from Beijing is being greeted less as a windfall than as a rare measure of

A federal judge in Illinois has given preliminary approval to a $99 million settlement that could reshape how farmers repair their own equipment, marking a significant moment in a years-long legal fight over the “right to repair”

Contract talks between BP and the United Steelworkers Local 7-1 resumed briefly Monday but ended without progress, extending a two-month lockout in northeast Indiana that has sidelined roughly 800 workers at one of the nation’s largest oil

Indiana’s top business, agriculture and life sciences leaders on Tuesday launched “BioHeartland,” a new regional identity aimed at unifying the state’s sprawling agbioscience sector and sharpening its pitch to global investors, companies and talent. The initiative, developed

The visit was brief, but its implications could stretch across Indiana and the Midwest for decades. When Stephen Vaden stepped off a plane in Indianapolis last Thursday, he wasn’t just touring office space—he was advancing a sweeping

  Planting progress continues to wow across the state, and now parts of northern Indiana are joining in the fun. Indiana corn and soybean planting numbers are identical in this week’s USDA Crop Progress Report. 67% of