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Avian influenza has been found in some wild birds in Wisconsin. Department of Natural Resources officials confirm finding the H5N1 virus in a wild merganser duck in Milwaukee County.  DNR officials also say there have [Read More…]

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been detected at a commercial turkey operation in Washington County, Indiana.    According to the Indiana Board of Animal Health, this is the ninth detection of the virus since the [Read More…]

The push for year-round E15 continues. On Thursday, the bicameral, bipartisan Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025 was reintroduced into the 119th Congress. If passed, the bill would remove seasonal restrictions from [Read More…]

An associate research professor at the University of Missouri says local farmers will feel the impacts of the closure of a Soy Innovation Lab in Illinois. Kerry Clark says U.S. Agency for International Development funding [Read More…]

The president of National FFA says members are celebrating ag education. Thaddeus Bergschneider from Illinois says more than one million members are participating in National FFA Week activities.  “It’s not only about the members that we [Read More…]

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Brooke Rollins as the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead Department of Health and Human Services. Agriculture organizations say there’s a lot [Read More…]

A federal foreign food aid program may have new life, thanks to legislation introduced in Congress this week. Is passed, Food for Peace would be moved to the USDA from the shuttered U.S. Agency for [Read More…]

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza for the first time in Monroe County near the Ohio border. State offials say the backyard flock is the first detection [Read More…]

The deputy executive director of the Missouri Soybean Association says farmers are concerned about this year’s expiration of several provisions of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017. Casey Wasser tells Brownfield bonus depreciation, [Read More…]

An ag economist says diesel stocks continue to fall. University of Missouri’s Ben Brown says, “Our U.S. diesel fuel stocks are 7% lower right now than they were this time last year,” he said. “We’re [Read More…]

Several of Wisconsin’s agricultural organizations are optimistic the next state budget will continue to fund some successful programs. Jason Mugnaini is Wisconsin Farm Bureau’s director of government relations and also lobbies for the state’s ag [Read More…]

Officials in the pork industry are concerned an already shallow labor pool is getting smaller. Matthew Grill, senior director of Congressional relations with the National Pork Producers Council, says the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration [Read More…]

Photo courtesy of Lance Lillibridge/Facebook An eastern Iowa farmer says it’s been the best winter calving season of his farming life. “It’s been a wonderful winter to have calves,” said Lance Lillibridge of Vinton. His [Read More…]

Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA continues to project a year-to-year increase in corn and soybean production. CONAB’s latest guess for Brazil’s soybean crop is 166.014 million tons, 0.2% lower than in January, but still up [Read More…]

Soils with higher percent-based saturation are more fertile because they have more plant nutrients and fewer toxins. In this episode, Stephanie Zelinko, National Agronomist for AgroLiquid, uses a parking lot analogy to explain how farmers [Read More…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or below-normal temperatures and near- or above-normal precipitation across most of the country.  Warmer- and drier-than-normal weather will be limited to parts [Read More…]

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been detected in a commercial egg layer facility in Jay County, Indiana (east central, Indiana).  According to the Indiana Board of Animal Health (BOAH), more than one million birds will be depopulated, and [Read More…]

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle were mixed and feeders were modestly higher, waiting for the rest of the week’s direct business. April live was down $.27 at $195.72 and June was unchanged at $191.37. March [Read More…]

A Midwest farm credit cooperative is supporting new and beginning farmers with financial and outreach services. CEO Jase Wagner says the Compeer Financial Groundbreakers program helps young producers face unique challenges. “Young, beginning, and small [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. Near-term forecasts have more rain in parts of Argentina and better harvest weather in central Brazil. Some damage has likely been done in Argentina and while Brazil’s [Read More…]