Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of four articles on the contributions farmers and tractor manufacturers made to winning World Wars I and II. This article originally appeared in Ageless Iron Almanac. Although historians still debate the true origin of the vehicle that is considered to be…

 I am about to attend one of the most stressful events anyone can imagine. That’s right: I will soon be going to my high school class reunion. Specifically, it’s the reunion that will mark 50 years since we graduated. Fifty years! How can that be? How is it that half…

After a week of warm temperatures, a low pressure system will bring cooler temperatures and precipitation early to the middle of the week. Precipitation will be widespread across the Midwest, ranging from North and South Dakota to Ohio. Southern Missouri to western Tennessee could get up to 5 inches of…

July corn ended the day up 7¢ at $4.54½ per bushel. July soybeans closed up 2¼¢ at $10.53 per bushel. July wheat contracts closed higher. CBOT wheat ended the day up 17¢ at $5.46 per bushel. KC wheat was up 13½¢ at $5.36¼. Minneapolis wheat was up 12¼¢ at $5.97¾.…

A report to be released by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission this week has agricultural groups appealing for careful consideration by the Trump administration. The report’s expected release is Thursday, May 22, according to Agri-Pulse’s Rebekah Alvey. The MAHA report “will set out to identify possible drivers of…

Thousands of chicks and young gamebirds were rescued earlier this month after an apparent misrouting by the U.S. Postal Service left them stranded in Delaware. The birds were en route from Freedom Ranger Hatchery in Pennsylvania, a facility certified by the National Poultry Improvement Plan as clean of Avian Influenza…