Category Archives: WBTU News (Imported)

Harvest is moving along at a rapid pace across the Hoosier State. We don't have USDA reports to tell us that as the federal government remains shut down, so we had to go around the state to check in w...

The Indiana State Board of Animal Health announced Monday evening that three additional detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) were discovered in northern Indiana. A commercial meat du...

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement - or USMCA - is up for a mandatory review in 2026. But already, agricultural leaders are calling on lawmakers to ensure farmers and ranchers play a central role in tha...

If Congress passed legislation that allowed for year-round, nationwide access to E15 fuel, corn use in ethanol could increase by 50 percent at full implementation, supporting a higher market price for...

Picture courtesy of American Farm Bureau Federation Farm Bureau veteran Dr. John Newton returns to the American Farm Bureau Federation team on October 20 to serve as the Vice President of Public Polic...

Photo: C.J. Miller / Hoosier Ag Today. While the virus known as "Bird Flu" has recently been found on commercial duck farms in LaGrange and Elkhart counties in northern Indiana, the detection of the v...

For the second time in consecutive days, state health officials have reported that the bird flu virus has been detected on a commercial duck farm in northern Indiana. On Friday evening, the Indiana St...

A rendering of AgroRenew's planned bioplastics facility in Vincennes. AgroRenew, a start-up company that planned to convert watermelon waste into biodegradable plastics, has announced on Friday that i...

The government shutdown continues, and as Washington remains deadlocked, the consequences are beginning to ripple far beyond the Capitol - reaching deep into rural America. Farmers across the country ...

A dry weekend is in store for a large part of the eastern corn belt and this includes Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. We are seeing a strong area of high pressure wanting to build in over the Great Lakes ...