Tyson Foods Confirms Two Deaths Due to COVID-19 at Iowa Plant

Two employees of a Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa, have died, presumably from the effects of COVID-19. The plant has been closed since April 6.

Keep Dollars In Your Pocket With These Conservation Practices

Dallas Glazik is encouraging farmers to focus their conservation efforts this year on what he calls the “red acres.” Those are fields, or more often areas within them, that show up as red—rather than green—on your yield monitor or in Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI) field imagery.

Growing a Sustainable Future

Together, we can find science-based solutions to produce more crops while conserving our lands and waters. Join us at nature.org/workinglands

Chip Flory: At-Home Orders Dry Up Ethanol Demand

COVID-19’s influence will be felt for years to come. And for corn, it could take years to shake-off the negative influence of ethanol’s demand destruction.

Get a Head Start On Weeds

As you plan your weed attack, first reflect on last year. What went right, wrong and what should you expect for the weed seed bank? Have a plan, and several backup plans, ready ahead of planting.

Join our $100 Ideas Club

Think you have an idea worth $100 – or even $200? Submit it here! Upon publication in Farm Journal, the Double Your Money winner receives $200. Other farmers featured receive $100 each.

Valero Energy Idles Ethanol Plants

Valero Energy announced it is temporarily idling eight of its ethanol plants and is reducing production at six ethanol plants.

Hemp Myths Debunked

The hemp industry is surrounded by many rumors and myths. We have debunked five, big hemp myths that have been surrounding the industry for years.

Perdue Says USDA Will Not Reopen the Dairy Margin Coverage Program

“We get a lot of requests about reopening the dairy margin coverage program,” Perdue said. “It is essentially an insurance program and the principle of insurance is you have to have it before you need it.”

Dekalb County, IN

Northeast Indiana, muddy, a little wheat being side dressed with nitrogen, making plenty of ruts. Can't get through some wheat fields. What a mess. Looking at low yields, again, in this wet spring.

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