Eric Pfeiffer

Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Indiana farmers are making swift headway on fall harvest, closing out soybean acres and pushing combines rapidly into corn as open weather windows hold across the state. That’s the case for many, but not everyone.

Hoosier farmers are heading into the 2027 Indiana legislative session with a clear message for lawmakers: the economic pressure on agriculture is not letting up, and state policy needs to keep pace.

A proposed fertilizer manufacturing project in Fair Oaks, Indiana, is among eight projects selected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to advance a nationwide effort to strengthen domestic fertilizer production, reduce reliance on foreign suppliers and help address mounting concerns over input costs for American farmers.

A nice harvest window remains in place for the next two weeks, although conditions will not be quite as perfect as they were this past week in your Beacon Credit Union Harvest Weather Forecast.

—a mistake corn industry leaders say severely damaged grain markets at the worst possible time for Midwest producers.

Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Indiana farmers made major strides over the past week as cooperative, open weather allowed combines to roll at near full capacity across multiple regions of the state.

When the criticism started rolling in, Heidi Johnson doubled down.

Last week’s National FFA Convention drew nearly 73,000 FFA members, advisors, and supporters to Indianapolis, generating an estimated $42 million in local economic impact. Inside the expo hall, agricultural companies and universities seized the chance to connect directly with the future of the industry.

Indiana farmers can take advantage of a mostly dry weekend and early week harvest window before a more potent weather system brings widespread rain and a significant pause to fieldwork by midweek

According to Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin, Michigan will stay mostly dry through the weekend and Monday . In this week's M&W Seeds Harvest Weather Forecast, presented by GreenStone Farm Credit Services, he says rain remains largely absent to start the period, cloud cover will gradually build into the Great Lakes state as weak disturbances push across the Upper Midwest