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The Road Less Traveled

Nov 14, 2024

By Denice Rackley Like many early small communities, Good Thunder, Minnesota, just outside Mankato, has its roots in agriculture. Named for a local Dakota chief, this town on the Maple River was a bustling center of commerce in the late 1880s. With an influx of...

National Farmers Crop Insurance

Nov 14, 2024

National Farmers Crop Insurance By Denice Rackley In 1975, a young farmer from Watertown, Minnesota began his farming career. Born and raised on a dairy farm, his family has been a part of National Farmers since the early 1960s. Through his nearly 50 years of...

Longtime Staff Members Ennis, McElwain Pass Away

Nov 14, 2024

Longtime Staff Members Ennis, McElwain Pass Away Two longtime serving staff members in National Farmers Organization have passed away. Tim Ennis, 77, of Waukee, Iowa, passed away September 10. Doris McElwain, 88, of Corning Iowa died August 18. Ennis’s economics...

President’s Message

Nov 14, 2024

By Paul Olson Greetings from the upper Midwest. Many September days the weather was picture-perfect, allowing good corn silage and soybean harvests. The corn fields dried down rapidly, and that job is largely in the rearview mirror. For the most part, the crop looked...

Dairy Marketing Signals

Nov 14, 2024

USDA Releases National Farmers Ranked Third For Dairy FarmsRepresented By Brad Rach Hoard’s Dairyman recently published its annual list of the Top 50 milk cooperatives in the United States. This year’s list had some bad news concerning farm numbers. Total membership...

Cattle Marketing Signals

Nov 14, 2024

Cattle Futures Prices Could Move Back Up Over the $190 Mark Well, the attitude of fund traders continues to swing wildly in approximately three to four-month cycles. In August the Chicago Mercantile Exchange was just starting to crash, supposedly because the stock...