Indiana turkey producers climb in national rankings
Many Americans will stuff themselves on turkey in the coming month. But Indiana’s turkey production, which reached a record level this year, is increasing not so much from holiday demand as from year-round global trends.
Consumers need to know these 10 harvest principles
This is harvest season, the most important time of the year for those involved in agriculture. For those not farming, the closest they get to a harvest is seeing a combine move across a field as they speed down the interstate or county highway.
Farm-level production decisions can have industry-level impacts
Agricultural policy analysts are faced with three polarities that they have to have to take into account in their work: microeconomic/macroeconomics; short-term/long-term, and do they develop policy prescriptions that treat the symptoms (low prices) or treat the cause of low prices.
Barge traffic to be aided by river work, says Corps
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was on track to finish revetment work on the Mississippi River by this past Monday afternoon, at a river marker called Fair Landing south of Memphis.
Missouri researchers collar cows to maximize pastures
Corn Belt pastureland is scarcer – and more valuable – than a decade ago. That makes forage management ever important, and researchers at the University of Missouri are using GPS-linked collars on grazing cattle to identify the ideal forage mix in tall fescue pastures.
Colleges diversifying to attract more students to ag programs
Most agriculture colleges associated with land grant universities in the Farm World region saw enrollment increases this fall. College officials point to the diversity of their offerings and the demand for graduates in areas covered by their programs as keys to the higher numbers.
Michigan’s food and agriculture system has surpassed its economic impact goal of $100 billion, according to an interim estimate by the Michigan State University Product Center.
Price doesn’t deter families from buying a heritage turkey for Thanksgiving
The cost is quite a bit higher, but heritage turkeys are popping up on more Thanksgiving dinner tables – and it’s not just from people looking for an authentic Pilgrim type of experience.
The wet spring conditions resulted in a non-uniform stand of corn on Randy Carothers’ Fulton County farm, but left no time for a replant. Then the combine broke down during harvest.
