The new president of the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) says farmers are facing many hurdles as his one-year term begins. Kenneth Hartman Jr., a fifth-generation farmer from Waterloo, Illinois, tells Brownfield… “There’s higher costs when it comes to fuel labor, you know, across the board, everything is more expensive, but yet corn prices are […]
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