Tyson Foods Confirms Two Deaths Due to COVID-19 at Iowa Plant Tyson Foods Confirms Two Deaths Due to COVID-19 at Iowa Plant
| | | Two employees of a Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa, have died, presumably from the effects of COVID-19. The plant has been closed since April 6. Read More | |
| | | Dallas Glazik is encouraging farmers to focus their conservation efforts this year on what he calls the “red acres.” Those are fields, or more often areas within them, that show up as red—rather than green—on your yield monitor or in Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI) field imagery. Read More | |
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| | | COVID-19’s influence will be felt for years to come. And for corn, it could take years to shake-off the negative influence of ethanol’s demand destruction. Read More | |
| | | As you plan your weed attack, first reflect on last year. What went right, wrong and what should you expect for the weed seed bank? Have a plan, and several backup plans, ready ahead of planting. Read More | |
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| | | Valero Energy announced it is temporarily idling eight of its ethanol plants and is reducing production at six ethanol plants. Read More | |
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| | | “We get a lot of requests about reopening the dairy margin coverage program,” Perdue said. “It is essentially an insurance program and the principle of insurance is you have to have it before you need it.” Read More | |
| | | Northeast Indiana, muddy, a little wheat being side dressed with nitrogen, making plenty of ruts. Can't get through some wheat fields. What a mess. Looking at low yields, again, in this wet spring. Read More | |
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