Category Archives: WBTU News (Imported)
David Hardin Named to USMEF’s Executive Committee Representing Grains, Oilseed Producers
David Hardin, a corn, soybean, and pork producer based in Hendricks County, chats with Hoosier Ag Today’s C.J. Miller during the U.S. Meat Export Federation’s (USMEF) Strategic Planning Co...
Nov 16, 2025
Cargill Plans $17.5 Million Expansion at Montgomery County Grain Facility
Cargill is planning a $17.5 million expansion project at its grain marketing facility near Linden in Montgomery County. Once completed, the expansion is projected to increase capacity at the facility ...
Nov 16, 2025
USDA’s WASDE Report Sends Grain Markets Lower Despite Yield Cuts
Photo courtesy of Tom Jones of Star City, Indiana. In the first set of government estimates since the shutdown began on Oct. 1, USDA's much-anticipated World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate (W...
Nov 14, 2025
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
