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Local educators and community members can learn how to provide elementary and high school students with healthy meals and nutrition education through a new training program offered by Purdue Extension in partnership w

As the focus of corn and soybean markets turns to 2017 prospects for production, the pace of old crop corn and soybean consumption carries implications for carryover stocks into the 2017-18 marketing year. The level o

Our neighborhood lost power after a round of violent storms hit our area and some of our neighbors’ homes were also flooded. Now that the storms are over and the power is coming back on, can we still eat the food in o

Feed costs were down and May futures were up, creating a better breakeven price for sellers of weaner pigs this week. Cash feeder pig prices were higher too, at $47.78, up $4.64 from the previous week.

Heavy rain saturated swaths of farmland across the state in recent weeks, compelling significant numbers of farmers to reorder seeds or take measures to help their newly planted corn or soybeans prosper. Even many farme

Very low crop insurance payments were made in 2016, resulting in a .27 loss ratio for all policies in the Federal program. Summary of Business data is available from the Risk Management Agency (RMA) back to 1989. Since

Commodity businesses are cyclical by nature, and pork production is no different. To make the most of market upsides and minimize the impact of downsides, producers need to maximize their production by controlling the f

The first quarter of 2017 has not disappointed.

Chinese imports of agricultural commodities largely rest on the notion of food security.

Canadian pig imports and U.S. corn prices are often inversely related. With U.S. corn prices rising, Canadian pig imports will likely stay low.