Driver shortage, fuel prices pushing ag transport costs
Illinois farmers expect increased trucking costs for this harvest season, driven by diesel fuel prices, a nationwide truck driver shortage, rising equipment costs and the newly implemented rule for electronic logging devices (ELD).
An independent team of Iowa State University agronomists and engineers have developed a mobile device app that could allow farmers – or anyone – with access to a smart phone detect soybean diseases in a similar way trained plant breeders and scientists already do.
Unique hog loader saves time, energy, improves safety
At Cooper Farms in northwestern Ohio, there’s a lot of moving going on. The company, which started its hog business in 1994, moves up to 700,000 pigs a year from barns to trailers to packing plants.
Sixty-three percent of Indiana’s county roads were in good or fair shape in 2017, according to a report released last month. The study also found that 9 percent of the state’s more than 13,000 bridges were structurally deficient, and 15 percent functionally obsolete.
Motor vehicle collisions top in ag claims for Nationwide
Most farm-related insurance claims for one major coverage provider in 2017 involved motor vehicle accidents; next was workers’ compensation claims for injury or death.
