Indiana Landmarks and Indiana Farm Bureau welcome nominations for the 2023 John Arnold Award for Rural Preservation. The award recognizes the preservation and continued agricultural use of historic farm buildings in Indiana. Since it was established in 1992, owners of more than 30 historic farms all over the state have been honored with the award.
ELWOOD – Red Gold of Elwood honored six growers with the Red Gold Master Grower Award at Red Gold’s 32nd Annual Grower’s Banquet. All the Master Growers were awarded with a Red Gold plaque.
Aroma Community Church Aroma Community Church meets at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday.
ATLANTA, Ind. – Shark Farmer, agriculture's most entertaining and boundary-pushing media personality, has a new home… or should that be, tank? Rob Sharkey, known in digital circles as The Shark Farmer, is not your average Illinois grain farmer.
INDIANAPOLIS – Corteva Agriscience (NYSE: CTVA) today announced a gamechanging gene editing technology that will bring added protection to elite corn hybrids is advancing through the company’s R&D pipeline. The earlystage concept uses proprietary technology to package multiple diseaseresistant native traits into a single location in the gene to better address the most devastating North American corn diseases facing farmers today.
ALLEGAN, Mich. – The Drozd family farms in Allegan, Michigan, and produces corn, soybeans and grain sorghum. Jon Drozd started competing in the National Corn Yield Contest in the 1980s and now competes with his sons, Jake and Ryan Drozd.
Early COVID-19 pandemic suspicions about dogs’ resistance to the disease have given way to a long-haul clinical data gap as new variants of the virus have emerged. “It is not confirmed that the virus can be transmitted from one dog to another dog or from dogs to humans,” said veterinarian Mohamed Kamel, a postdoctoral fellow at Purdue University.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers have designed two simple LED lighting strategies to increase yield and reduce energy costs for the vertical farming sector of indoor agriculture.
Female farmers and ranchers in the United States play an integral role in providing agricultural products to our nation and the world. During Women’s History Month, we celebrate the 1.2 million female producers around the country.
Millions of children face a risk of hunger during the summer months when they no longer have access to school meals. USDA’s summer meal programs – the Summer Food Service Program and Seamless Summer Option – reduce food and nutrition insecurity and help ensure kids are healthy and ready to learn when they return to school in the fall. Nationwide, thousands of dedicated organizations sponsor summer meal programs and work tirelessly to offer high quality meals that are appealing and nutritious.