Category Archives: WBTU News (Imported)
Sarah Ash Simpson Hired as Senior Director of Public Policy at Indiana Soybean Alliance
Sarah Ash Simpson, the new Senior Director of Public Policy and Industry Affairs for the Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA). Photo courtesy of ISA. Sarah Ash Simpson has been hired by the Indiana Soybean ...
Sep 08, 2025
Disease Alert Update: Red Crown Rot
A soil-borne fungus is raising alarm among soybean growers across parts of the Midwest and Southern U.S. It's called Red Crown Rot, and it's now showing up in more fields than ever before. According t...
Sep 08, 2025
US House Passes Grain Inspection Extension
U.S. Capitol building, Washington, D.C. The U.S. House passed a five-year reauthorization of USDA's grain inspection program on Monday. The bipartisan United States Grain Standards Reauthorization Act...
Sep 08, 2025
Indiana Egg Producers Encouraged to Serve on American Egg Board
Photo courtesy of the American Egg Board. If you're an Indiana egg producer or a representative of an Indiana egg producer-then, you may want to consider serving on the American Egg Board. It's the U....
Sep 07, 2025
Trump: New Trade Deal with Japan Brings $8 Billion Boost to US Agriculture
President Trump during a news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House, in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025. Photo courtesy of the Office of President Donald J. Tru...
Sep 07, 2025
California Lawmakers Pass E15 Bill, Making It Final State to Allow Sales
California lawmakers voted last week to allow the sale of E15, a higher-ethanol gasoline blend that could help bring down fuel prices in the Golden State. California had been the only U.S. state that ...
Sep 07, 2025
Winners of ‘Fight the Hunger, Stock the Trailer’ Food Drive Challenge Announced by Farm Credit Mid-America, Rural 1st
Photo courtesy of Farm Credit Mid-America. This summer, youth 4-H leaders across Indiana united in a powerful effort to fight hunger in their local communities-collecting a record-breaking 233,500 pou...
Sep 06, 2025
Quinn: Southern Rust Has Been ‘Nasty’ for Corn Producers in 2025
Dan “Corn” Quinn (left) with “Soybean” Shaun Casteel (right) during the Purdue Crop Chat Podcast. Corn producers have been facing a number of different disease pressures over t...
Sep 04, 2025
Hoosier Farmers Clay Andrews, Don Lehe Named to Indiana-Illinois Boundary Commission by Gov. Braun
Hoosier farmers Clay Andrews (left) from Warren County and Don Lehe (right) from White County are among the five members named by Gov. Mike Braun to serve on the newly created Indiana-Illinois Boundar...
Sep 04, 2025
USDA: Farm Sector Profits to Grow in 2025
A soybean field near the town of Swayzee in Grant County. Photo: C.J. Miller / Hoosier Ag Today. The USDA's Economic Research Service says net cash farm income, defined as gross cash income minus cash...
Sep 04, 2025
