Son of orchard’s founder is new Michigan Hall-of-Famer
Ninety-year old Robert Crane still gets around well enough to walk the southwestern Michigan orchard inherited from his father. The latest member of the Michigan Farmers Hall of Fame also drives out there sometimes on his Kubota four-wheeler.
Indiana Grown seeking food suppliers in guide to schools
An aggressive push is underway to increase the amount of locally grown and processed foods in schools throughout Indiana – the strategy involves making it much simpler for schools to find local suppliers of fresh produce, meat, milk and other foods, said Heather Tallman, program manager for Indiana Grown.
Illinois economics team hashes out farm bill risk management
When the University of Illinois Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics’ (ACES) farmdoc team of ag economists, professors and pundits prepared for their five-city Farm Economics Summit tour on Dec. 16, they were unsure as to whether a new farm bill would become reality.
U of I ag economists reexamine their old crop price projections
When professor Scott Irwin and his colleagues at the University of Illinois Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics (ACES) issued their “new era of grain prices” projections in 2006, the economists saw corn prices averaging $4.60 per bushel and soybeans $11.04 for the foreseeable future.
