Category Archives: WBTU News (Imported)
McKinney Receives Special Award from US Meat Export Federation
Ted McKinney (far left), received the Michael J. Mansfield Award from the U.S. Meat Export Federation on Thursday, Nov. 13. Also pictured (from left-to-right) is Julie McKinney, Ted’s wife; Dani...
Nov 13, 2025
Nearly 540,000 Birds Impacted by Bird Flu in Northern Indiana Since Oct. 9
State health officials are now reporting that 41 commercial poultry farms in northern Indiana with a total of 539,810 birds have been impacted by the virus known as bird flu since Oct. 9. All of the c...
Nov 13, 2025
Rollins Leads US Trade Trip to Mexico City
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins during her recent USDA Trade Trip to Mexico. Photo courtesy of USDA. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently led the largest USDA agribusiness trad...
Nov 13, 2025
Corn Hybrids Perform Well in 2025
The 2025 crop is mostly out of the fields now, and variable yields mimicked the weather this year. Disease and its impact also were varied across Midwest geographies, in a year when there were major c...
Nov 13, 2025
President Trump Signs Funding Bill to End the Federal Government Shutdown
President Trump has signed a funding bill that reopens the federal government. Trump signed the bill late Wednesday evening in the Oval Office just hours after it had passed in the U.S. House. Preside...
Nov 13, 2025
NCBA Supports Legislation to Expand Local Beef Sales
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association announced its continued support for the Direct Interstate Retail Exemption for Certain Transactions (DIRECT) Act. The legislation would increase marketing opp...
Nov 12, 2025
Chinese Purchases of U.S. Soybeans Have Stalled
Chinese purchases of soybeans from the U.S. appear to have stalled only two weeks after the U.S. touted a wide-ranging trade truce between the two countries. Bloomberg said it appeared to show a thawi...
Nov 12, 2025
Rollins and USDA Actively Try to Limit Government Overreach
During her recent Indiana farm visit, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins spoke about government overreach of family farms. How is USDA getting involved in addressing these issues? "All of a...
Nov 12, 2025
Root of the Problem: The Battle Below Ground
According to new data from the Crop Protection Network, soilborne threats like Soybean Cyst Nematode, Sudden Death Syndrome, and Red Crown Rot caused millions of dollars in yield losses during 2024 al...
Nov 12, 2025
Indiana Dairy Producer Brian Rexing Elected Chairman of NMPF
Brian Rexing, an Indiana Dairy producer from Owensville in Gibson County, has been elected Chairman of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF). Photo courtesy of NMPF. Brian Rexing, an Indiana d...
Nov 11, 2025
