It's Fair Time!
The LaPorte County Fair added a novel page to its illustrious history when Madison Scarborough's beef steer was judged to be the grand ... Read entire story
The Kosciusko County 4-H Sale of Champions raised $41,132 last Friday in Warsaw. With 13 lots selling, the event kicked off ... Read entire story
What's Making News
Poor crop conditions from drought in some major producing states will likely diminish total yields nationwide despite relief ... Read entire story
Who doesn't like a two-for-one deal, or a double-double, or a win-win?
A team of USDA scientists in the ... Read entire story
This Week's Farm Operations
Persistent rains continued to fall across most of the state as growing conditions remained favorable. There were 3.9 days suitable ... Read entire story
Wet weather conditions hindered field activity and caused some damage to crops in low lying areas. Soil moisture levels increased ... Read entire story
This Week's Market News
The Agriculture Department lowered its 2021 milk production estimate in its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates ... Read entire story
CME butter jumped the first two days of the week and hit $1.71 per pound but then reversed gears. It closed last Friday at ... Read entire story
Weekly Columns
One job on the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth was to walk just-cultivated corn or soybean fields to find ... Read entire story
Like a lot of rural women, I learned about canning and preserving at my mother's and grandmother's sides ... Read entire story