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Nov 21, 2016, 10:27 AM by Public Relations Team

Dallas and Meggie Foster have a farrow-to-finish operation and raise nearly 1,300 acres of corn and soybeans.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:54 AM by Public Relations Team

Featured on pages 4 and 5 of this issue are the winners and runners-up in two of Indiana Farm Bureau’s most prestigious awards: the Young Farmer Achievement and Excellence in Agriculture awards.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:53 AM by Jay A. Wood, INFB Marketing Team

Eleven times between 1965 and 2014, Congress passed giant measures supporting an array of agriculture and nutrition-related programs. That legislation, which recurs approximately every four to six years, is known colloquially as the “farm bill.”

Nov 21, 2016, 07:52 AM by AFBF Communications Department

Nov 21, 2016, 07:51 AM by Public Relations Team

Nov 21, 2016, 07:51 AM by AFBF Communications Department

The Department of Transportation’s proposal to require speed limiters for large commercial vehicles fails to take into account the fact that many commercial vehicles often cover hundreds of miles on open roads with few other vehicles, Farm Bureau pointed out in recently submitted comments.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:50 AM by Kathleen M. Dutro, INFB Marketing Team

For the first time since 2011, Indiana Farm Bureau has exceeded last year’s total in overall membership.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:49 AM by Jay A. Wood, INFB Marketing Team

In an effort to boost engagement in the political process this fall, INFB launched an iFarmiVote campaign designed to motivate members about the 2016 general election. INFB captured 60 photos of members holding their iFarmiVote yard sign. Other members changed their Facebook profile pictures to the campaign logo.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:43 AM by Public Relations Team

Commercial and private growers can learn more about production practices, pest and disease control, agritourism, food safety and other topics at the annual Indiana Horticultural Congress and Trade Show.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:41 AM by AFBF Communications Department

The American Farm Bureau Federation has joined a coalition of small business groups urging Congress to provide relief to rural communities when it comes to health insurance.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:40 AM by Purdue Ag Communication Service

A global ban on genetically modified crops would raise food prices and add the equivalent of nearly a billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, a study by researchers from Purdue University shows.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:39 AM by AFBF Communications Department

The farm bill authorizes several USDA programs that create export opportunities and generate demand for U.S. agricultural products and commodities in foreign markets.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:37 AM by Brittany Gonzalez

It takes a minimum of 218 votes for a bill to pass the U.S. House of Representatives, and an analysis of the nation’s major crop-growing regions demonstrates that compiling those votes requires compromise among the various commodity interests.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:36 AM by Kathleen M. Dutro, INFB Marketing Team

Food assistance has been connected to farm policy since the very first farm bill passed in 1933. The Agriculture & Consumer Protection Act of was the first time food assistance was included in the farm bill.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:35 AM by AFBF Communications Department

The 2014 farm bill repealed a number of existing dairy safety net programs and replaced them with two new programs: Margin Protection Program for Dairy Producers and a Dairy Product Donation Program.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:34 AM by Jay A. Wood, INFB Marketing Team

Crop insurance is an absolutely critical title in the farm bill because it is one of the most heavily used programs.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:32 AM by Kathleen M. Dutro, INFB Marketing Team

There’s a regular alphabet soup of conservation programs in the farm bill – CRP, EQIP, CSP, ACEP, WHIP, and on and on and on.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:31 AM by Kathleen M. Dutro, INFB Marketing Team

The two primary revenue programs included in the 2014 farm bill are the Agriculture Risk Coverage (or ARC) program and the Price Loss Coverage (or PLC) program.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:30 AM by Randy Kron, President Indiana Farm Bureau

Seldom does a day go by that I don’t think about how different the farm economy is today than it was when the 2014 farm bill was written. Indications from Purdue tell us that the next four to five years will continue to be difficult and lean. Our industry is at a serious crossroads, which requires us to look at the farm bill through a much different lens than we did four years ago.

Nov 21, 2016, 07:30 AM by Kathleen M. Dutro, INFB Marketing Team

Each year, county Farm Bureaus are asked to meet the organization’s goals for the year, and those that are successful are recognized at the Indiana Farm Bureau convention.