Category Archives: WBTU News (Imported)

The August Rural Mainstreet Index covering a multi-state region shows one-fifth of grain farmers will experience a negative cash flow in 2025. For the seventh time this year, the overall regional econ...

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is deregulating Bayer U.S.-Crop Science (Bayer) MON 95379 corn. This corn was developed using genetic engineering to resist feeding damage cau...

Last week was National Farm Safety and Health Week and annually it's a week dedicated to the awareness of safety surrounding our farmers during this busy season. In doing our part to raise awareness, ...

On Thursday, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins spoke on the current state of the farm economy in the United States and addressed the ways President Trump is supporting American agriculture. U.S....

This past week was National Farm Safety and Health Week, shining a light on the on-farm hazards farmers interact with daily. But it's not just about farmers, it's about the whole ag industry. "Every w...

The White House budget office is instructing federal agencies to prepare reduction-in-force plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown, specifically targeting employees who work for ...

As of Sept.1, there were 74.5 million hogs and pigs on U.S. farms, down 1% from September 2024 but up 1% from June. 1, 2025, according to the Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report published today by the U.S....

  A relatively easy forecast discussion this week. We are going to be working into a significant area of dryness over the next two weeks and that should throw open wide the window for harvest act...

Pictured from left to right: ISDA Director Don Lamb, ICMC President Tim Gauck, ISA Chair Denise Scarborough, Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith, Gov. Mike Braun, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Wen-Jane Tu, Chair...

President Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. Photo courtesy of C-SPAN. President Trump says that his administration will be providing assistance to struggling U.S. farmers using tar...