What's Making News
The Indiana State Department of Agriculture is facing a double-digit reduction in its 2026 budget as a result of state budget cutting ... Read entire story
Nine farm animals a family kept for use in 4-H perished in a LaPorte County barn fire, but more could have died if not for police helping ... Read entire story
This Week's Farm Operations
Anyone applying agricultural pesticides (certified applicator or not) needs to be aware of changes coming to pesticide labels across the ... Read entire story
Between operating heavy machinery, managing livestock and applying fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, agricultural production involves ... Read entire story
This Week's Market News
The April federal order benchmark Class III milk price was announced by the USDA at $17.48 per hundredweight, down $1.14 from March but ... Read entire story
The cost of inheriting the family farm will increase dramatically at the end of the year if Congress doesn't take steps to extend the elevated ... Read entire story
Weekly Columns
After years of patient effort, Congress seems headed for a long-overdue correction to misguided nutrition policy. The Whole Milk for Healthy ... Read entire story
Somewhere along life's highway most of us learned to balance a checkbook. This task usually involved a pencil, the back of a used envelope ... Read entire story