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What's Making News


Schools to Serve Whole Milk Again

President Donald Trump signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act last week in the Oval Office alongside U.S. Secretary of Agriculture ... Read entire story

Soy Exports Key to Crop Outlook

Crop producers can expect slightly higher corn prices this year but still below the breakeven level. The outlook for soybean prices depends on ... Read entire story

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This Week's Farm Operations


Sturgis Man Touts Highest State Soy Yields

A Southwest Michigan farmer has first place finishes both times he competed with other soybean growers in the state for highest yields ... Read entire story

Check DriftWatch Before Spraying

On Feb. 6 and 7, I will be one of several thousand people attending the Northern Indiana Grazing Conference at the Michiana Event Center in ... Read entire story

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This Week's Market News


2026 Milk Output Expected to Be 234 Billion Pounds

The Agriculture Department left its 2025 milk production estimate unchanged in last week's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate ... Read entire story

Tenure Characteristics of Illinois Farmland Explained

Data from the Illinois Farm Business Farm Management (FBFM) Assn. provides insight into farmland tenure and leasing arrangements across ... Read entire story

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Weekly Columns


Guebert's Food Pyramid Traces Back to His Home in Little Egypt

As has been noted here before, I don't eat today what we ate every day on the dairy farm of my youth. Back then we worked like plow horses so ... Read entire story

Out-Wintering Cattle Works Well with Windbreaks

We've been having very normal January weather in northern Indiana. There have been two times in the last two or three weeks where the temperature ... Read entire story

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