Chris Torres

6 days ago | farmprogress.com | Chris Torres

As you’re finalizing those Mother’s Day plans, have you ever wondered where those flowers you got Mom came from? If you live in Pennsylvania or the surrounding states, chances are they probably came from a nearby farm that’s been prepping for the Mother’s Day holiday. And the store you got your flowers from? Well, they likely purchased their flowers from the Leola Produce Auction, right in the heart of Lancaster County, Pa.The weeks leading up to Mother’s Day are frantic at the auction.

6 days ago | farmprogress.com | Chris Torres

President Donald Trump’s tariff pause goes through July 9. That means we will all have to wait with bated breath to see what countries start trade negotiations, or if the across-the-board tariffs he proposed in early April will take effect. But what exactly is a tariff, and how will it potentially affect your farm? Here’s a look at the tariff impact from the perspective of the apple industry. First, what is a tariff?

1 week ago | farmprogress.com | Chris Torres

Haymaking might be routine for some farmers, but Michael Stefan of North Collins, N.Y., considers it an art form. "There's just a magical thing to making hay. When the weather is right and the plant is right, you make hay. You can have dryers, you can have preservatives, you can have all this fancy stuff, but there's just a magic art form to making hay because the best hay you make is when everything lines up," he says.

1 week ago | farmprogress.com | Chris Torres

It’s a little too early to predict wheat yields, but the drier-than-normal winter and early spring has likely suppressed tiller development in Maryland and Pennsylvania — a bad sign for yield. Andrew Kness, ag educator with University of Maryland Extension, recently visited eight fields in Harford and Carroll counties. Acreage is consistent with previous years, he says, but germination has been slow and uneven with less tillers. “Fall tillers contribute to a significant proportion of yield.

2 weeks ago | farmprogress.com | Chris Torres

Could dairy be the savior of the high-oleic soybean market? Don Wyss, Indiana farmer and United Soybean Board member, hopes so. “It’s not just a food product … but also now this feed component, coupled with a small piece in the industrial market, it’s opening up markets and uses for the high-oleic soybean. For that reason, I’m real excited about it,” said Wyss, who grows 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans, including 300 acres of high-oleic soybeans for a local Bunge elevator.