Weather - General

The record cold temperatures and extreme weather had a major impact on ranchers across the country, but through it all, the men and women showed what the true definition of a rancher is.

While some in the cattle industry know the switch from flaked corn and wet distillers to feeding cracked corn was out of necessity, they fear there could be a huge increase in cost of gain.

A powerful low is making its way to the Rocky Mountains. Besides that, much of the nation may experience “quiet” weather.

After an early planting kick-start to the crop season, torrential rains blanketed northeast Arkansas and Missouri Bootheel farmland in late April and early May. The flood disaster raises a tangle of questions about crop insurance, risk and water management.

Overtopping be damned, on the night of May 2, 2011, Birds Point levee was blown and 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland were swallowed. The water left, but the scars of shattered legacies remain. When the rights of agricultural producers clash with government regulation, federal law holds the trump cards.

Green Sense Farms of Portage, Ind., is removing weather from the farming equation and scrambling to meet demand.

2020 might go down in history as the costliest year ever for storm damage.

AgDay meteorologist Mike Hoffman says there is very cold air Northeast of the Great Lakes.

It’s Christmas week and as holiday plans may look a little different this year, Mike Hoffman says it’s unlikely the U.S. will see a widespread white Christmas.

The growing season has been anything but normal for farmers in the Corn Belt. They have been plagued with flooding, replanting, drought, not enough heat and other issues. Following the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour, many farmers have been praying an early frost won’t come their way.