The third class of the Michigan Corn Education, Networking and Training program (MI CENT), the Corn Marketing Program of Michigan’s young farmer program, met for the first time this January. This program is designed to provide educational opportunities for the next generation of Michigan corn farmers. Topics include agronomy, technology, farm management, the work of the National Corn Growers Association, a trip to Washington D.C. to lobby Michigan’s Congressional delegation and the opportunity to travel internationally to learn about farms across the globe. To nominate yourself or another farmer for next year’s program, contact Claire White at cwhite@micorn.org.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Perhaps the most astonishing and deplorable news story since the start of this Covid-19 outbreak was that of consumers racing to stores at the crack of dawn and hoarding all the toilet paper they could find. Still hard to find in most grocery stores these days are cans of soup, hand sanitizer, paper towels,

On the flip side, though, there is plenty of milk, eggs, cheese and meat in those grocery stores.

MOLINE, Ill. — In the fall of 2018, amid a slew of right-to-repair bills, the California Farm Bureau Federation (CFBF) reached an agreement with the Equipment Dealers Association (EDA) that required implement dealers, most notably John Deere, to include making repair manuals, diagnostic tech and other service tools widely available to farmers by 2021. Previously farmers were not able to access any of the information which would allow them to access service manuals, product guides, on-board diagnostics and other information that would assist a farmer or rancher identify or repair problems with the machinery. What the agreement would not do, however, would be to allow farmers to access proprietary software of the equipment