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Gene-edited rice provides safe solution for small farmers
Regulators classify gene-edited rice varieties with disease resistance equivalent to conventional varieties. A team used gene editing to develop new disease-resistant rice varieties.The Healthy Crops...
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MORNING Midwest Digest, Oct. 20, 2020
Steve Alexander is in for Max, and talks about COVID-19 resurgence and impacts on elections, colleges, state orders, hunting and animal processing and more. COVID-19 is flexing its muscles again in...
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MIDDAY Midwest Digest, Oct. 20, 2020
Steve Alexander is in for Max, and talks about gas prices, electric vehicles and COVID-19 surges and impacts. The average price of gas is about 50-75 cents per gallon less than 1-2 years ago.GM is...
View ArticleNCBA rolls out voluntary cattle market fix
Proposed 75% plan uses triggers to bring balance to both buyer and seller sides of cattle markets. It is no secret that adequate price information has been on the decline in the fed cattle marketplace...
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Study links neonicotinoids to bird declines
Researchers analyzed causal relationship between neonicotinoid use and decline in bird biodiversity. According to a recent study co-authored by an Auburn University researcher and published in the...
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9 ways to improve your farm marriage
What’s a story from 1991 got to do with your marriage in 2020? More than you might think, when you consider ag in the ’80s and the past few years. Editors have an old saying that good stories bear...
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Do you have a postharvest safety plan?
As you park machines, fire up your review of safety practices on your farm. There’s no doubt agriculture has come a long way in working toward creating a safer environment, from improved equipment to...
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It’s never too early to do tax planning
Farmer Iron: With 2020 mercifully winding down, it's time to think about your capital purchases. Last month we explored the idea of when it’s time to replace a machine. With equipment sales in a slump...
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MORNING Midwest Digest, Oct. 21, 2020
Steve Alexander is in for Max, and talks about Upper Midwest snow, a request for auger tractor stories, and auger accident, COVID lockdowns and losing blades on wind turbines. A record-breaking...
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Here's why wheat prices are rising
Farmers are battling drought while importers are building reserves. By Anatoly Medetsky and Megan DurisinFrom Russian farmers literally steamrolling seeds into parched fields to China’s rising demand,...
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MIDDAY Midwest Digest, Oct. 21, 2020
Steve Alexander is in for Max, and talks about COVID-related issues, including lockdowns, threats, reduced occupancies, traveler quarantines and more. University of Michigan students must stay locked...
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Railroads ready to handle this year’s large harvest
Senate hearing loos at impact of COVID on rail traffic and discusses opportunities for improving in STB reauthorization. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the agricultural sector continues to do well...
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Ag opposition to pesticide legislative changes growing
Weed scientists warn against legislative approach to put science in backseat and politics in driver seat regarding pesticide policy. New legislation introduced earlier this year in the U.S. House of...
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Look for consistency when selecting hybrids
Odds are low that your top corn hybrid this year will be the top one again next year. Even if you’re not a person who likes to gamble, perhaps you’re up for a friendly wager occasionally. Maybe the...
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Droege family owns piece of history
A rare Keck Gonnerman steam engine sits in the Droeges’ Mount Vernon, Ind., barn. It’s likely no accident that Jim Droege’s family owned and used a 1936 Keck Gonnerman steam engine to thresh wheat...
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Cow poop becomes clean water, fertilizer
Organic dairy in Indiana installs Varcor system to eliminate need for manure lagoon. One of the nation's largest organic dairy farms is transforming cow poop into water and dry organic...
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Farm Progress America, October 22, 2020
Max Armstrong shares news of a federal program designed to help compensate livestock producers impacted by moves to protect endangered species Max Armstrong looks at news that there are efforts to...
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Federal dollars mute pandemic impact
Farm Credit officials detail impacts of COVID-19 in their regions. COVID-19 has impacted agriculture in myriad ways from farm-to-fork, but the financial impact has been muted by an infusion of federal...
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MORNING Midwest Digest, Oct. 22, 2020
Steve Alexander is in for Max, and talks about Upper Midwest snow and corn harvest, wind turbines shut down, RV profits and a stolen sheriff vehicle. Record snow fell in the Upper Midwest the other...
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10 senators ask EPA to waive 2021 RFS
RFA responds: 'These senators are unashamedly encouraging EPA to ignore established case law.' On Oct. 21, a group of oil-state senators submitted a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler asking...
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