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Indiana Farm Bureau Members Dive Deep on Policy Issues in DC
Feb 28, 2025Tap to summarizedocument.createElement('audio'); https://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2103/2025/02/25205040/kron-in-dc-wrap.mp3 Senator Todd Young hosted Indiana Farm Bureau President Randy Kron, American Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee Chair Isabella Chism, and INFB member Kyle Albertson last week in his Washington, D.C. office. Photo: Indiana Farm Bureau Facebook Page Indiana Farm Bureau members were in Washington, D.C. last week weighing in on policy issues critical to the success of agriculture. Indiana Farm Bureau President Randy Kron told Hoosier Ag Today last week in D.C. that they have 7 individuals on what they call Issue Advisory Committees for American Farm Bureau. “It ranges from energy to farm policy to water and natural resources. It’s issue groups that will dig into the topics a lot deeper, the issues, and understand them and help us develop good policy. But that will go back to the local level and it’ll go through the resolutions process. But it just gives us an opportunity to take several days to dig into it, understand the issues, and it’s our grassroots members.” While in D.C., Kron and others met with Indiana Senators Todd Young and Jim Banks to discuss policy issues impacting farmers back home. It’s been a little while since Indiana hasn’t had representation on the Senate Ag Committee. HAT asked Kron if that was a concern of his. “Oh, I don’t know if I’d say ‘concern’. We sure would have liked to have seen Senator Banks on there, and we did work and tried to get him there and it didn’t work out…I will say we have two of them on the House Ag Committee in Congressmen Jim Baird and Mark Messmer, so we’re well represented there. “We’re going to go have conversations and talk about the farm bill,” Kron continued. “Labor is one of our top issues and H-2A and labor rates. So, we’re going to be talking about issues like that that impact the pocketbooks of Hoosiers.” Kron told us they also discussed biofuel tax credits and Senate confirmations with Young and Banks while adding they’ll be out to D.C. plenty more in the weeks and months to come to advocate for Indiana farmers.The post Indiana Farm Bureau Members Dive Deep on Policy Issues in DC first appeared on 1010 WCSI.
Transcribe →Suderman: The Grain Markets are ‘Facing Headwinds’
Feb 28, 2025Tap to summarizeArlan Suderman, Chief Commodity Economist with StoneX. Photo: C.J. Miller / Hoosier Ag Today. If you’ve been waiting to see if the corn and soybean markets climb higher, you may be waiting for quite a while—especially for corn prices! “We’re seeing headwinds across the board for the commodities—not every commodity, but many of them,” according to Arlan Suderman, Chief Commodities Economist at StoneX. “The general thinking in the markets is with the Consumer Sentiment and Consumer Confidence [indexes] both plunging here over the past month, and with headlines of terrorists and inflation, that we’re going to see economic growth stumble here in the United States, as well as globally, and that’s going to hurt demand,” says Suderman. “Keep in mind that we had a significant rally in the grains and oil seed markets in recent weeks and months, therefore the funds are taking some profits on that rally.” How’s the overall tone in the corn market? “A combination of factors are really piling on and now the momentum has turned bearish,” says Suderman. “The dry areas of Argentina have turned wet and now flooding is a concern now. Also, the previously wet areas of Brazil that were slowing soybean harvest and therefore planting Safrinha corn dried out, and so we’re seeing very fast planting of the Safrinha corn crop in Brazil. We also saw that the funds had near-record large long positions or ownership in Friday’s CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) Report, which made the traders nervous.” Suderman adds that we could also see a huge increase in corn acres in the Midwest this growing season—which would also add significant pressure on the corn market. CLICK BELOW for Hoosier Ag Today’s radio news report: https://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2103/2025/02/26214004/cj-wrap-hat-full-suderman-grain-markets-facing-headwinds-022625.mp3 The post Suderman: The Grain Markets are ‘Facing Headwinds’ first appeared on 1010 WCSI.
Transcribe →Purdue’s Farm Stress Team Assisting Communities Hit by Avian Flu
Feb 28, 2025Tap to summarizehttps://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2103/2025/02/27214434/hpai-farm-stress-wrap.mp3 Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has hit over a dozen commercial poultry farms across Indiana since the first of the year. While much of the focus has been on the price of eggs because of the outbreak, the impacts are far greater. “It’s always interesting to see how a specific farming operation has kind of that ripple effect through a community,” says Abby Heidenreich, Purdue Extension Educator and member of the Purdue Farm Stress Team. The Indiana State Board of Animal Health reached out to them to provide mental health support during these difficult times. “One of the things that we’re most concerned about and want to express to farmers who’ve been impacted by HPAI is that it’s not completely your fault. Depopulation of birds can take a huge emotional toll on a farmer who cares for those birds day in and day out.” Heidenreich says farmers often tie their personal worth to the farm because, as they say, farming is a way of life, right? But situations like this require a reminder: “You as a farmer are more than your farming operation, that you are valued as a human individual, and that your life matters, and that this is something that we can get through.” Heidenreich also reminds farmers that they can call or text 988 for help with farm stress. “It doesn’t have to be any kind of serious life endangerment. If you’re just having a rough day and you want someone to talk to, please call or text 988, get some help from a person who can go through that with you, or talk to someone that you love and care about, that you trust.” Resources are also available at extension.purdue.edu/farmstress.The post Purdue’s Farm Stress Team Assisting Communities Hit by Avian Flu first appeared on 1010 WCSI.
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