The past few years have tested even the most seasoned farmers. Facing rising input costs, unpredictable market access and many other challenges, farmers and ranchers are working harder while margins grow thinner.

At Farm Bureau, we believe that strength is not measured in bushels or bales. It’s measured in our willingness to look out for one another.

At 92, Mom had outlived all her siblings and all her classmates, but her passing has left a big hole to fill in all the love she poured into all the friends and family that were lucky enough to know her.

We figured we were probably 5% over our Actual Production History for the year in both corn and soybeans and actually our toughest ground did better than our better ground this year.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program feeds more than 41 million people in America every month. That’s roughly one in eight people in this country.

“I hated being hungry,” said my mother, born into dirt and poverty on a tenant farm in east-central Nebraska in 1932.

Pope Leo XIV denounced the use of hunger as a weapon of war as he urged world leaders to act responsibly and focus on the multitudes across the globe who face hunger, wars and misery.

As the fall harvest season comes to a close, farmers are carefully studying their balance sheets.

With the costs of everything seeming to go up by the day, how are we going to manage to stretch our budgets to include gifts?

The art of adding mother-of-pearl inlay to lacquerware has been practiced in Korea for more than a thousand years.

The amount of absolute risk reduction from a statin in a person without known heart disease depends mostly on a person’s absolute risk of heart disease.

Six people who died at a Colorado dairy farm this summer were exposed to hydrogen sulfide gas, authorities said.

The Fendt IDEAL Harvest Tour visited 11 farms in 11 days across five states to let farmers use the combine for harvest in their own fields.

Once harvest is complete on Mindy Orschell’s farm, the family doesn’t slow down. They take a deep breath, then jump back in.

An Illinois grain farmer and popular host of podcasts, radio and television shows was the guest speaker at Eureka Savings Bank’s recent inaugural ag event.

Indiana Farm Bureau announced its policy priorities for the 2026 legislative session, with a focus on protecting farms.

Kiah Twisselman Burchett describes her love for agriculture as a seed that was planted when she was very young, growing up on a cattle ranch in rural California.

After investing many years into their Supervised Agricultural Experiences projects, two Illinois FFA members were named top in the nation as American Star winners.

Three Indiana FFA members took home notable awards at the National FFA Convention & Expo.

We have been in this pattern now for three years, not just 2025 — hot, dry periods with lots of strong drying winds and a lack of snow to make up for deficiency from the rest of the season.

Kyle Martz knew as an eighth-grade student that he was going to join the Army and serve his country.

After college, Marcus Maier got a full-time job, but he still had the notion of joining the Army in the back of his mind.

When Randy Rosengren graduated from high school, he could not wait to start farming with his dad, but first he choose to complete his military service.

Brad Dearing checks all the life-lesson boxes from his experiences in military service, decades as a teacher and owning a farm.

Did you know that one in every six farms has a producer who is currently serving or who has served in the military?

Growing up in a small town with a graduating class of 23 in 1983, Mike Kirkton wanted travel the world.

Ever since Corey Trobaugh was a kid, he wanted to either defend his country or help feed it — and he has done both.

From service in the Air Force to a career in agricultural real estate, Craig Stevenson’s journey has taken him around the world and then back home to Indiana.

Fall opens the door to a bounty of vibrant flavors that turn a simple salad into a showstopper.

Most experts recommend an evaluation with an endoscopy and a laryngoscopy for people with a persistent globus sensation.

By this time of the year, most of us in cooler climates have started wearing gloves. But gloves weren’t always relegated to wintry weather.

It’s impossible to say exactly what’s going on, but lately there are problems with our food supply, one after the other. Listeria and salmonella are at the top of the list.

A farmer and biodiesel facility quality control manager, both from Illinois, were among the newly appointed Sustainable Advanced Biofuel Refiners Coalition directors.

American farmers welcomed China’s promise to buy some of their soybeans, but they cautioned this won’t solve all their problems as they continue to deal with soaring prices for fertilizer, tractors, repair parts and seeds.

Indiana agriculture took center stage as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins visited Everett Farms and Seed LLC in Lebanon ahead of her keynote address to the 98th National FFA Convention & Expo in Indianapolis.

Working with consumers who want to learn more about how their food is produced sparked Dan Sanderson to write a book about his regenerative farming practices.

Together, we can help farms of all sizes succeed to ensure America’s ability to be food independent long into the future.

Illinois Agri-Women has established the Generations of Women in Agriculture Across America event and awards.

With the warm, dry conditions, harvest is almost complete at Riskedal Farms, where some corn and sunflowers remain to be picked.

Induction cooking stoves use powerful electromagnets to create a magnetic field — which can “tell” your pacemaker to turn itself off or change its mode of activity.

Some of us have gotten to the age where we wonder if adopting a pet would be the right thing to do, even though we know that having a pet would help with feelings of loneliness.

Football fans might consider it a calamity if their favorite team loses. The calamity bank made by J. & E. Stevens in the early 1900s depicts a different kind of football disaster: Insert a coin and the three players’ heads collide.

Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November.

Halloween time is officially here — and I’m all about cookies that look a little spooky, but taste completely delicious.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is accepting nominations for the 2026 Environmental Stewardship Awards.

Working on two dairy farms has resulted in national recognition for Nevin Erbsen as a finalist for the American Star in Agricultural Placement award.

Seeing a fistulated cow at a young age triggered Delana Erbsen’s interest in research that has led her to develop FFA award-winning projects.

In 2018, Blake Twenhafel started BT Lawn Care with one customer, and during the next few years, he expanded his business to include over 50 commercial and residential properties.

April Lamb of Kosciusko County won first place in the 2025 Indiana Farm Bureau Photo Contest.

A 38-year-old Woodstock man has died in a farming accident near Marengo in northern Illinois on Oct. 27.