Hoosier Ag Today

The calendar is turning away from another year of immense variability in corn and soybean crops across the Corn Belt. Weather and planting conditions and timing were all variable, and yields ranged from disappointing to very good.

  Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday. He was 100 years old. Our country’s 39th president, Carter started his long and storied life as a farm boy on his daddy’s peanut farm in Georgia. “The barn was

New leaders on the Congressional Ag Committees and in the White House mean new opportunities for advocacy. Sam Kieffer, Vice President of Public Policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the four leaders of the committees

The Indiana Sheep and Wool Market Development Program is sponsoring a shearing school, hosted by the Indiana Sheep Association (ISA) on Saturday February 22, at Purdue University’s Sheep Center. The statewide workshop will take place at 5480

President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal. Farmdoc says he accused Panama of charging excessive rates to use the passage, which drew a sharp rebuke from Panama’s president. Speaking to supporters

  Thinking about buying a new truck for your farm in 2025? Now you can get one designed especially for farming and ranching operations. It’s called the Ag Wagon. “A group of 14 farmers and ranchers worked

Exactly a month after President-elect Donald Trump nominated his former policy advisor, Brooke Rollins, to serve as the next U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary, he has nominated Stephen Vaden, a judge on the Court of International Trade

The Purdue Women in Agriculture Team is hosting the 2025 Ag Women Engage Conference at the Grand Wayne Convention Center in Fort Wayne on Thursday, Feb. 13 from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. This annual event is designed

By now, you may have heard that President-elect Trump has nominated Brooke Rollins of Texas to serve as his U.S. Ag Secretary and Stephen Vaden of Tennessee to become the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. Both nominees have

With 2024 coming to a close, we thought we take a look back, in no particular order, at the top ag news stories from Indiana and across the U.S. that you heard us cover during the past