Farmers are used to a lot of uncertainty. Will the rains come at the right time, in the right amount, or will they not come at all? Will the sun burn up the crops in July? Will thunderheads drop hail in August? But farmers are used to worrying about the weather. There’s a whole new ...
U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra saluted the passage of a new Farm Bill by the full House of Representatives on Thursday. “Today marks a major milestone not just for Iowa agriculture, but for agriculture across the country,” the Republican from Hull said in a written statement. “I’m proud to ...
NEWS *NFA has ordered Metanoeo Capital LLC, an NFA Member commodity trading advisor (CTA) in Fort Collins, Colorado, to withdraw from and not reapply for NFA membership or principal status with an NFA Member at any time in the future. NFA has also ordered Joshua David Schuler, an associated ...
You’d think that the three extra years Congress has taken to update the 2018 Farm Bill might mean it stumbled upon solutions to today’s falling farm income, sagging ag exports, the need for more federal bailouts, and the White House’s bubble-gum-and-baling-wire trade policy. Well, stop ...
DAYTON — They are among the beef producers caught in the squeeze between the end consumers and initial producers. A.J. and Kellie Blair don’t keep up on the price of hamburger at local grocery stores, but they do know the price of calves ready to feed out — and somewhere in the ...
I renewed a CD recently as power of attorney for a relative for 3.6% for seven months. Given that inflation is 3.3% and rising, there is little net gain in the current rate above inflation. Money is devaluing as fast as it collects interest. Yet President Donald Trump is adamant that rates ...
It doesn’t take a Harvard degree to figure out that men and women think differently. And if you live and work on the farm, it only magnifies that notion. Volumes could fill presidential libraries on the ways farmers and their spouses can think and do things differently from each other to ...
The success of the recent Artemis moon mission has caused many Americans to feel uplifted and inspired. Uplifted because we could all imagine leaving Earth and its countless botherations — especially the Kardashians — behind. Inspired that four brave souls managed to accrue nearly 700,000 ...
MARSHALLTOWN — Class of 2023 BCLUW High School classmates Lincoln Stover and Paul Murty have been friends for as long as they can remember, and they’ve also both grown up with a deep connection to agriculture. Stover’s father Kurt is a consultant, while the Murty family farms about ...
STORY CITY/ALTOONA — Life has come full circle for producer Aaron Holt whose farm-to-table catering and personal chef business relies on his family’s farm to grow the food he then serves to others as an award-winning chef. As a child, Holt fondly recalls learning how to cook from his ...
