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 extension plant pathologist says some farmers are looking at fungicides for cost savings. Alison Robertson with Iowa State University tells
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures were mixed, uncertain about how much higher cash and wholesale prices can go.
Mar. corn closed at $4.84 and 1/4, up 9 and 3/4 centsMar. soybeans closed at $10.34, up 15 centsMar. soybean meal
Soybeans were higher on fund and technical buying, pulling contracts to a higher weekly finish. Beans continued to monitor weather in
A professor of crop physiology at the University of Illinois says research has shown two primary management components of high yielding
A new study from the Iowa Pork Producers Association reveals pig farmers are a vital component of the state’s economy. IPPA
Photo by Brent Barnett/Brownfield The head of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association says several biodiesel plants have idled across the state.
Farmers and agricultural researchers are evaluating how ideal cropping systems are progressing as part of a long-term USDA research project. Phil
A third case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a Jay County (east central), Indiana commercial turkey operation.
