It's Fair Time!
Tears flowed freely at the Berrien County Youth Fair last Friday in Berrien Springs during the goat auction, as bids came in for Galien youth ... Read entire story
Morgan Shurr swept the top awards at the Porter County 4-H sheep show in Valparaiso, exhibiting both the grand and reserve champion market ... Read entire story
What's Making News
With a new disease threat emerging in Indiana soybean fields this year, a Purdue University Extension field crop pathologist is urging ... Read entire story
Group 15 herbicides, bleaching herbicides and 2,4-D are all showing failure to control weeds across Indiana. That's according to Bryan Young ... Read entire story
This Week's Farm Operations
Politico's Rachel Shin reported that "Morocco's state-owned OCP has returned to the U.S. phosphate fertilizer market after ... Read entire story
After a drier-than-normal July, recent rains have put Indiana on notice for above-normal precipitation. Just two weeks into August, there ... Read entire story
This Week's Market News
Dairy demand remained strong in June according to the USDA's latest Supply and Utilization data. Starting with cheese, disappearance totaled ... Read entire story
Bloomberg's Ben Westcott reported that "corn futures topped the $5-a-bushel mark for the first time in 18 months as weaker ... Read entire story
Weekly Columns
Strong markets are essential to a strong farm economy. And for America's farmers and ranchers, few markets matter more than our ... Read entire story
Some county fairs have a unique opportunity to educate. Some of those opportunities happen when fairgoers buy a pork chop sandwich from the ... Read entire story