Most cow-calf producers face price risk. Likewise, most producers manage price risk, even if they do not have an explicit “price risk management strategy.” Three major price risk management strategies are self-insurance, marketing flexibility, and…

Keith Berns is a farmer by trade, but on Wednesday, he might as well have added scientist and economist to his business card. Berns is founder and co-owner of Green Cover Seed, based in Bladen,…

HUMBOLDT — As a lifelong farmer, Curt Mueller is used to worrying about the weather. 2021 was no different. It started with one of the wettest springs and summers in recent memory. From June through…

It would be impossible to think of Harry Clubine anywhere but on the farm. He was born the son of a dairy farmer, rising every morning at the crack of dawn — “or earlier,” he…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Like other ranchers across the country, Rusty Kemp for years grumbled about rock-bottom prices paid for the cattle he raised in central Nebraska, even as the cost of beef at…

Harvest is in full swing in the Midwest. Whether you live on a farm, in town, or are just traveling through the area, everyone needs to be cautious and smart during this busy time of…

Denouncing corporations is easy. Using actual policy tools to hold them accountable and check their power is more difficult. Yet this is precisely what the National Farmers Union (NFU) is pushing the Biden administration to…

Usually by this time of year our yard is a pale yellow. Just inches below the surface is a limestone shelf. So every time it rains, it greens up fast. Two weeks without rain in…

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Farmers in the Lawrence area are being recruited to participate in a program that gathers unsellable produce and donates it to people in need. The Lawrence Journal-World reports  that the Lawrence-Douglas…

The beans are in the bag. Now that the soybean harvest is at a close, the Register sat down with Piqua Co-op general manager Kevin Day to get a sense for how the season went…