Cooler Midwest conditions a godsend for many crops
Dry, cooler weather allowed for nearly seven days suitable for fieldwork at 7 degrees Fahrenheit below normal temperatures in Indiana and Illinois, according to the Illinois office of the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
AFBF: Livestock drivint slight increase in U.S. farm income
The recent projections of U.S. farm income released by the USDA in its August 2017 Farm Sector Income Forecast suggested while farm income may have hit rock bottom in 2016, there will be an uptick in both net farm and net cash income in 2017.
Aging dam along Ohio River fails, forcing halts to traffic
Commercial river traffic was flowing once again early this week following an eight-day shutdown of one of the oldest and busiest lock and dams on the Ohio or Mississippi river.
DowDuPont, the new $130 billion agricultural-chemical conglomerate created by the merger of Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont, is reversing its just merged structure that formed three business spinoff units, reverting back to two entities.
