Month: April 2023

As planting gets underway, some farmers in southwest Ohio are experiencing phosphate fertilizer shortages. Tadd Nicholson is the executive director of the Ohio Corn and [Read More]

Missouri farmers made good planting progress in April. In northern Missouri, Wes Shoemyer says it’s the fastest he’s ever planted a crop. He started planting [Read More]

Farmers made more in March while paying steady money. The USDA’s index of prices received was 1.3% higher than in February, supported by gains in [Read More]

Central Indiana farmer Josh Miller says he’s made good planting progress this spring. “We’ve got a few acres of corn in the ground,” he said. [Read More]

The American Farm Bureau Federation is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to enforce current food labeling standards for dairy substitutes. Danny Munch tells [Read More]

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says an emergency wavier allowing summertime sales of E15 is another example of the Biden administration’s commitment to expand biofuels.   Vilsack [Read More]

For the remainder of Friday, rain in the eastern U.S. will continue to shift northward into the lower Great Lakes region and the Northeast.  Meanwhile, [Read More]

Across the Corn Belt, cool weather continues to limit spring fieldwork.  In addition, rain is falling in much of the eastern Corn Belt, while scattered [Read More]

Wisconsin U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin is applauding the Biden administration for making E15 available this summer. The Democrat issued a response to Friday’s EPA announcement [Read More]