Hoosier Ag Today

  The planting window was only open for half the state last week, but Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin says this planting window is wide open for all Hoosiers. His forecast is presented by Beacon Credit Union. Martin

While much of Indiana’s farm country has raced through spring planting under unusually favorable conditions, farmers across the northeastern corner of the state are still struggling to recover from weeks of relentless rain, saturated fields and mounting

On a warm evening inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse, a group of international soybean buyers sampled food cooked in high-oleic soybean oil while watching the Indiana Fever play before a packed crowd. Earlier that same week, many of them

Indiana pork producer Alayne Johnson has spent much of the past several years traveling far beyond the barns and grain fields of her family’s farm in northeastern Indiana, helping shape national conversations about the future of the

Winter wheat is looking good across Indiana, especially if you compare it to the rest of the country. “Wheat this year has been ahead of schedule,” explains Purdue Extension Small Grains Specialist Shaun Casteel. “We have had

As Congress begins debating a sweeping new transportation package that could shape U.S. infrastructure policy for years to come, farm groups are pressing lawmakers to embrace a long-sought change they say would lower costs for farmers, reduce

As the Trump administration moves to rewrite North America’s trade rules and deepen its confrontation with China, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is signaling that tariffs are no longer a temporary negotiating tactic but a permanent feature

As volatile commodity markets and rising input costs continue to squeeze profit margins across rural America, soybean growers are increasingly looking for ways to do more with fewer trips across the field. Agronomists say one of the

A major federal push to ramp up U.S. fertilizer production promises relief for farmers squeezed by high costs—but one expert says it may be targeting the wrong problems. U.S. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins and other Trump administration

The state of Indiana is getting a new charter school focused on agriculture and technology education. The bad news:  The Southwest Parke Community School board voted to shut down Montezuma Elementary as a cost-saving measure due to