– U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Oct. 8 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has invested $22 million out of up to $100 million in grants available to … Read More

The benchmark price index for food commodities rose in September, led by vegetable oils and cereals, according to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. … Read More

Grain storage is a particularly dangerous area on family farms and in other agricultural settings. Those tall, usually metal or concrete silos that dot the landscape across our state cost … Read More

Without big gatherings, will Americans buy whole birds? Smaller ones? Just parts? Farmers and retailers are already placing their bets. (New York Times)

Six current and former chicken-industry executives were indicted on price-fixing charges, expanding the U.S. government’s antitrust prosecutions in the $65 billion poultry industry. (Wall Street Journal)  

Earlier this year, a Hendricks County couple, with the help of a local environmental group, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on their case that claimed Indiana’s Right … Read More

AgArts, an organization dedicated to telling stories from Iowa’s farmland, gives fellowships to artists of all kinds, from around the world, to live on an Iowa farm and produce art … Read More

Venezuela’s oil reserves, the world’s largest, transformed the country and the global energy market. Now its oil sector is grinding to a halt. Will it ever recover? (New York Times)

A University of Illinois research team, led by Agricultural and Consumer Economics Professor David Bullock, received a $4 million award from the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to implement … Read More

It’s harvest time in the Northern Hemisphere for two of the largest producers of corn and soybeans on earth, the United States and China. Prices generally reflect the seasonal burst … Read More