09/01/2024
Now is a great time to purchase a used electric vehicle. The average price for a used EV has dropped about 20% compared to this time last year, according to Edmunds transaction data.
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Now is a great time to purchase a used electric vehicle. The average price for a used EV has dropped about 20% compared to this time last year, according to Edmunds transaction data.
If you’re ready to move on from a purely gasoline-fueled vehicle, but you’re not ready to go fully electric, you have two choices.
Facing competition from automakers with lower costs, Ford Motor Co. is shifting its electric vehicle strategy and now will focus on making two new electric pickup trucks and a new commercial van.
A crash and large fire along a California freeway involving an electric Tesla Semi has drawn the attention of federal safety investigators.
An Indianapolis man has been convicted in a road rage highway shooting that killed a central Indiana man who was returning home after a long shift at work, prosecutors said.
A truckload of m**hamphetamine disguised as a shipment of watermelons was seized at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing in San Diego, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
Isotretoin is the most effective treatment for acne, but it has the potential for serious side effects and can only be given after a thorough review of its risks.
Celery was used to conceal more than 2,300 pounds of m**hamphetamines that federal agents discovered in a truck at a farmers market outside Atlanta, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said.
Corn dough reached 92% and soybeans setting pods reached 93%, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service Illinois Field Office.
As summer presses onward, From the Fields contributor Mark Seib continues balancing farm and family life.
Rain makes grain, and two mid-August Department of Agriculture reports offered this year’s first in-the-field look at just how much corn, soybeans and wheat American farmers will grow this wet, grain-making year.
A desire to garden and grow food has developed into a cut flower farm for Anna Guziak-Prochnicka.
The first 1,000 days of a baby’s life — encompassing pregnancy through the child’s second birthday — is a critical period for brain development.
A new Land Use Change Initiative is leading efforts to resolve inconsistencies in definitions, metrics and m**hodologies for quantifying land use change.
Wheat is strategically planted on the Rahn farm to provide opportunities for manure applications and tiling projects.
Applications are now being accepted for the annual W.D. Farr Scholarship program. The scholarship recognizes outstanding graduate students pursuing careers in meat science and animal agriculture.
The annual Orr Beef Research Center Field Day will take place at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Ag Sciences Complex and Fred Bradshaw Learning Center at the John Wood Community College Agricultural Education Center.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded $22 million for projects in 36 states that expand access to technical assistance for livestock producers and increases the use of conservation practices on grazing lands.
Join is for our Northern Illinois Regional Cattlemen Connect Education Series Meeting! We've got a great set of speakers and topics to cover in Hanover at Wildberry Farms.
Registration is 🆓 so be sure to preregister by September 9th!
More information and registration found at https://www.illinoisbeef.com/programs-events/cattlemen-connect-education-series
Wintersteiger will present its latest technology designed to meet the needs of agronomists and seed breeders at this year’s Farm Progress Show, Aug. 27-29 in Boone, Iowa.
GSI will showcase its Smart Grain Management tools — GrainVue and GSI Connect — as well as its new mixed flow dryers at the 2024 Farm Progress Show, Aug. 27-29 in Boone, Iowa.
Golden Harvest and GHX spokespeople will be available at the 2024 Farm Progress Show, Aug. 27-29 in Boone, Iowa, to provide details on new 2025 corn hybrids and soybean varieties.
The 2024 Farm Progress Show will be held Aug. 27-29 at the Central Iowa Expo, 1827 217th Road, Boone, Iowa.
Come see us at the Midwest Mechanical W**d Control Field Day! We're just over two weeks away from the big day at Purdue's Meigs Horticulture Research Farm. Complete your registration with
The Land Connection here: https://thelandconnection.org/event/2024-mmwcfd/
Curious about in-field demos you'll see when you're here? Check it out 👇
For more than a century, tar spot fungal disease in corn kept its distance from the U.S., biding its time. “Tar spot had not been detected in the U.S. prior to 2015, but it has been endemic in several Latin American countries, starting in Mexico in 1904,” said C.D. Cruz, associate professor of b...
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Did you miss Monumental Marketplace? Or, perhaps you had a taste and now want even more Hoosier products? No worries — Program Manager Heather Tallman says you'll be able to shop local in Indiana Grown store every day at the Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center next month #indystatefair
The winner of the People’s Choice Award at the AgriNovus Indiana Ag+Bio+Science Startup Showcase is announced: NutraMaize is commercializing a more nutritious, better tasting, variety of non-GMO corn #agbioshowcase19
WARNING: If you hate the sound of a dental drill, do not watch this video of U of I vet students practicing on the SIU Carbondale horse herd.
Brad Dalke, ADM North America vice president of animal nutrition, discusses the importance of the company's new high-tech livestock feed facility in Quincy, Ill., at the grand opening April 3
Indiana's Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch reads a proclamation from Governor Eric Holcomb to officially name today as Indiana Farm Bureau Day 🎉 #INFB100
Feeling stressed? Here are some tips shared by Larry Tranel of Dairy Extension Team - Iowa State University at the Farm Stress Meeting organized by University of Illinois Extension at Highland Community College
Margaret Larson, University of Illinois Extension county extension director for Jo Daviess, Stephenson and Winnebago counties in northwestern Illinois, details the special event at Highland Community College to train staff and the local community to help farmers feeling stressed
Product Manager Brett Ochs and Grain Marketing Consultant Matt Bennett talk about what's inside and outside your Channel Seed bag #plant19 #AgAdvice #AgVocate
One of a select group that got to test Seed Advisor last fall, Iowa farmer Jerry Seuntjens tells The Climate Corporation global director of product marketing Bret Sitzmann that he‘s impressed by the ability it provides to get the right product at the right population in the right field #AgVocate
Specifically designed for in-row cultivation, the Tilmor finger weeder ensures small and just emerging weeds are uprooted and dried out. Here’s the demonstration at the Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day hosted by PrairiErth Farm in Atlanta, Illinois:
Here’s daredevil and circus performer Bello Nock in action during Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center Media Preview Day — reporters were oohing and aahing as performers spun around, leaped and defied gravity. Looking forward to seeing whole 1-hour show during #IndyStateFair Aug. 3-19 in Indianapolis.
Try something new at this year’s Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center — famous for its ribeye sandwich, Indiana Beef also is serving mini meatballs stuffed with roasted chiles, teases IBCA Executive Vice President Joe Moore #IndyStateFair
Celebrating 50 years of Pork Tents at the Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center, Director of Checkoff Programs Jeanette Merritt previews the new Indiana Pork Farmers Potatchoes — roasted pit potatoes topped with pulled pork barbecue and covered in sour cream, cheese, pico de gallo and jalapeños #IndyStateFair
What’s new at the Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center Dairy Bar? Indiana Dairy Senior Director of Communications and Wellness Jenni Browning offers a taste of birthday cake shake and inside out grilled cheese #IndyStateFair