High Fertilizer Prices and Availability Concern Farmers

Farmers are bracing themselves for higher input prices for 2022, especially with fertilizer prices nearing all time highs. Products like…

Farm Groups Push Administration On Supply Chain Disruptions

More than 50 farm groups have submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Transportation addressing the many disruptive factors facing…

Farmers To Plant More Beans, Less Corn With High Fertilizer Prices

Farmers in the western corn belt may shift their normal rotations in 2022 with fertilizer prices nearing all-time highs and…

House Ag Committee Advances Cattle Contract Library Bill

The Cattle Contract Library Act passed unanimously out of the House Ag Committee on Thursday. It was cosponsored by South…

Mexico to Take GMO Corn From U.S.

In a meeting this week in Iowa with U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, Mexico’s Ag Minister says they will continue…

USDA Undersecretary for Rural Development Talks Infrastructure Plan, State Appointments

The Biden Administration is starting to make some USDA appointments on the state level in the Farm Service Agency and…

South Dakota Corn Names New Executive Director

Milbank native and South Dakota State University graduate, DaNita Murray, has been chosen to lead South Dakota Corn as Executive…

Soybean Growers Filed Formal Objection on EPA’s Chlorpyrifos Ban

More than 80 agricultural groups have filed formal objections to the Environmental Protection Agency’s rule to revoke all tolerances of…

NCBA Welcomes Bill to Establish Cattle Contract Library

On Thursday the House Agriculture Committee unanimously passed South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson’s Cattle Contract Library Act of 2021. The…

Nebraska Farmers Union Will Hold Virtual State Convention

Nebraska Farmers Union members will be holding their state convention on Friday December 3. The meeting will be held virtually…