A market expert says higher beef prices are creating additional challenges for dairy herd expansion. Mike North with Ever.ag says dairy producers have been using sexed semen to get beef calves from dairy cows as cattle markets have notched record highs. “Some of these two and three-day-old calves are bringing as much as a thousand […]
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An ag meteorologist says Winter Storm Cora will bring lasting impacts for farmers into the spring. Michigan State University’s Jeff Andresen
An agronomist with Golden Harvest says he expects many farmers not to cut back on corn fungicide usage in 2025. Nate
Pictured: Iowa farmer Nathan Anderson at the 2025 Practical Farmers of Iowa conference in Des Moines (Photo by Brent Barnett/Brownfield) Farmers
The USDA is calling for better milk prices and reduced supplies this year. In its latest supply and demand report, the
Farmers should rethink some strategies to improve profitability in 2025. University of Illinois farm management specialist Gary Schnitkey says farmers should consider
The USDA raised its 2025 red meat production outlooks, while cutting the guesses for poultry and eggs. Beef production is now
The U.S. produced more cotton and rice in 2024 than 2023. The USDA says upland cotton production was 13.946 million bales,
The president of the Illinois Hemp Growers Association says the extension of the 2018 Farm Bill means their industry can continue
Cash dairy prices were steady to lower again Friday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey remains unchanged at $0.74. One sale
