It has been said that the only constant is change. This is true except if you’re hoping for change from a $20 bill after filling your car’s gas tank. Tremendous changes have taken place on the farm where I launched my dairy farming career 46 years ago. When I first rented that ...
WEBSTER CITY — Dan Peterman seems to have been born to make everything old and green new again. For most of his adult life, that has meant doing the heavy, dirty work of pulling engines and making them run like new again. But nearly 40 years of wrangling machinery can take a toll on a ...
DES MOINES — Landus, Iowa’s largest agricultural cooperative, announces that LANDWERX, a first-of-its-kind agricultural innovation hub, will now operate independently. This strategic shift allows both organizations to hone their innovative efforts by enabling LANDWERX to scale ...
NEWS *Walmart has opened its first-ever case-ready beef processing facility in Olathe, Kansas. This project began with a 2022 investment Walmart made in Sustainable Beef LLC to improve its supply chain for Angus beef. CORN ANALYSIS Corn closed the week $.10 3/4 higher. Last week, ...
With 2025 half gone, the cautious American ag economy, like the slowing U.S. economy, now tiptoes into its second half. Key U.S. ag markets quietly survived the raucous first half. For example, November soybean futures opened January near $10.28 per bushel and closed June at roughly ...
Is the NH3 pipeline going through one of my farms public or private? It is privately owned but serves the need of providing farmers fertilizer. Wasn’t the Dakota Access pipeline a private project? But we all need oil or what it does for us. How about powerlines? Warren Buffett’s ...
This ordinary, run-of-the-mill, garden-variety farmer was anything but ordinary. He was a math genius whose education began and flourished at a country school — Henry Township No. 8, in fact. He was no stranger to hard times as a kid, and he knew what hard work on the farm was from the time ...
Legend has it that an urban congressman decided to visit a dairy farm. “How often do you milk your cows?” asked the congressman. “Twice a day,” replied the dairyman. “So, ten times a week,” said the congressman. “No, twice a day.” “That’s ...
BOONE — Jeremy Gustafson is always looking for a better way on his family farm a short distance northeast of the Farm Progress site near Boone. That desire to learn is a big part of the reason he sought to learn more about Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) several years ago. “I’ve been ...
Industrial park projects in Webster and Hamilton counties have received state grants to help pay for the process of getting the sites certified — an important step toward attracting businesses and jobs. The Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance received $1,603.75 for the Iowa Crossroads of ...
