Women in Ag
When Mary Heffernan and her family left their city life behind to buy a ranch, she relied on her entrepreneurial drive to sustain their livelihood.
Female farmers love their job for different reasons; Here four share advice while telling their stories of resilience, innovative creativity, and the rewards of producing food.
I’m glad that my father was so open minded. When people questioned his plan to let his daughters take over the family farm, he’d laugh and say: “One day, women will run the world!”
As farmers prepare to plant this spring, 2023 isn’t as much of a guessing game in terms of certain inputs supplies. BASF says the company isn’t seeing a shortage of glufosinate this year.
Unlike the early tar spot problem farmers experienced in 2021, the disease wasn’t first reported in Indiana until August this year. Darcy Telenko studies the timing of fungicide applications in battling tar spot.
Why a New App Designed by Iowa State Could Be a Game Changer to Identify and Diagnose Unwanted Pests
A new pest ID app designed by Iowa State University is the first of its kind for not only insect detection, but also suggested management practices that can help farmers rid their fields of unwanted pests.
Shelly Boshart Davis and Macey Wessels, owners and operators of a custom farming and trucking business in Oregon, are the 2020 Executive Women in Agriculture Trailblazer Award winners.
Tar spot is tearing through Midwest cornfields, causing quick maturity and in some cases, cutting yields in half. Missy Bauer has tips for assessing which fields should be harvested first to salvage the yield left.
From a tattered farm two years ago after a tornado flattened the Leach’s dairy in Linwood, Kansas, to a farm with new barns and new life, the Leach family says the journey to rebuild wasn’t easy, but it was worth it.
“Any money saved by not paying a lawyer to draft a will and succession plan, will be outweighed by the expenses associated with a family feud.”