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Arlene Cotie, Product Manager at Bayer CropSciences shares with Brownfield’s Dave Russell results farmers are getting with the LiberyLink trait and Ignite herbicide, including improved yields and excellent weed control. AUDIO: Arlene Cotie, Bayer ...

With the deadline to submit ballots for FSA County Committee elections coming up on Monday, December 7, I thought it would be good to learn more about the County Committee and what they are responsible for, Julia Wickard is the Indiana Farm Service ...

It’s the flu season, not only for people but also for horses. It’s late in the show and futurity cycle, but having horses at these events can expose the animals to other horses and pathogens that may infect them with flu. Dr. April Knudson, manager ...

Two –thirds of the “Meat the Need” rescue program proposed by the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture to help struggling dairy, pork and poultry producers has been put in place. Missouri Ag Department Director Jon Hagler is ...

The northern Missouri woman charged with defrauding farmers out of at least 27-million dollars has pleaded guilty to federal charges. Cathy Gieseker, who ran a grain trucking and marketing company from her home in Martinsburg, pleaded guilty to mail ...

In the past, microbiological seed treatments have been considered inconsistent due to a lack of knowledge and technology.  Tom Johnson, president of TJ Technologies, is working to change that perception.  He says the technologies they have developed ...

US Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack helped launch the Obama Administration’s United We Serve: Feed a Neighbor Initiative on Tuesday – a week after USDA’s Household Food Security report identified 17 Million U.S. families struggling with food insecurity ...

On this Thanksgiving day, I have much for which I am thankful.  I realize this year has presented many challenges to many of you across the Heartland and beyond, but overall, for my husband and me it has been a very good year. I am thankful that ...

The latest numbers from USDA project net farm income to be down almost 30 percent this year compared to last. The two main reasons for that decline are pork and dairy and the big question for those two industries is can they survive…and that boils down ...

For farmers in parts of the Midwest, not only has it been a frustrating harvest, it’s frustrating what they are leaving in some fields, ruts and soil compaction. The question is how will we deal with those ruts and compaction issues? “We’re kind of ...

Tom Jennings, Director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture says the state’s annual mycotoxin survey, so far, is not showing any major problems with this year’s corn crop. “Now we start that down in Southern Illinois and we’ve done something ...

Each year, National Farm-City Week is celebrated during the week leading up to and including Thanksgiving and across the country, many states are conducting Farm-City activities, Jeff Helms is Farm-City coordinator in Alabama where the theme this year is ...

Each year, National Farm-City Week is celebrated during the week leading up to and including Thanksgiving and across the country, many states are conducting Farm-City activities, Jeff Helms is Farm-City coordinator in Alabama where the theme this year is ...

If you have a commodity loan, pay close attention, grain quality is critical. Don Hunton, Program Specialist in the Indiana Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Office says there are two main concerns farmers will need to pay special attention to this ...

The USDA’s latest report on red meat output shows the production of lamb and mutton in the U.S. hit a record low in October.   According to Idaho sheep producer Margaret Soulen Hinson, vice-president of the American Sheep Industry Association, the ...

One of the first items of business to take place during Indiana Farm Bureau’s 91st Annual Meeting in Ft. Wayne last week was the election for President. For the first time in a number of years it was a contested election. Donnie Lawson of Boone County, ...

The recent loss of 3,800 feeder pigs in a northwest Iowa hog barn—a suspected case of livestock vandalism—is just the latest in a string of vandalism cases involving Iowa livestock producers.  Aaron Putze, executive director of the Coalition to ...

It’s the flu season, not only for people but also for horses. Shows and futurities expose the animals to other horses and pathogens that may infect them with flu. Dr. April Knudson, manager of Merial Equine Veterinary Services says each event brings ...

It’s been a challenging year on many fronts for pork producers, to say the least. President of the National Pork Board Tim Bierman tells Brownfield the board has spent over $3-Million dollars to educate the public about the safety of pork amid the H1N1 ...