The Great Glyphosate Debate

The Great Glyphosate Debate

These boots were made for walkin’, and that’s just what the EPA did. Bye for now: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said sayonara (kinda) to a legal battle on their interim determination that there is no evidence linking glyphosate—the active ingredient in the...
The Chinese Diet: Cutting Soybean Meal

The Chinese Diet: Cutting Soybean Meal

The Chinese are going on a diet—cutting soybean meal consumption in an effort to boost national food security. And it all starts with animal feed. Pork prices have consumers squealing. ICYMI, pork is the most consumed meat in China. Higher feed prices along with...
Indy and the Fruit of the Sea

Indy and the Fruit of the Sea

There’s pineapple shrimp, coconut shrimp, lemon shrimp, pepper shrimp… and now Midwestern shrimp? Seafood on the mainland: Indiana is a major producer of ag commodities—corn, soybeans, and now seafood. That’s right, the Hoosier state is getting into the shrimp...
Lantern Flies Illuminate Agriculture Risk

Lantern Flies Illuminate Agriculture Risk

The first leaves of fall haven’t yet taken over the sweet memories of summertime. The smoke from the grill, the splashing of waves, and the…. spotted lantern fly sucking the life out of trees rustling in the breeze? Yup. 2022 has been the summer of the spotted lantern...
Farm Households Depend on Non-Farm Income

Farm Households Depend on Non-Farm Income

It’s no surprise that the vast majority of farm households rely on off-farm income sources—but the number may shock you. A study commissioned by CoBank and facilitated by researchers at the University of Missouri recently found that 82% of farm household income comes...