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The Fort Wayne TinCaps and Indiana Pork are donating nearly 2,300 meals of ground pork to the Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana.

Low rainfall levels throughout the Midwest in the late summer and early autumn have caused water levels on the upper and lower Mississippi, as well as the Illinois, Missouri and Ohio rivers, to drop.

Bayer’s national flagship brand DEKALB announced its new partnership as the official corn seed of the “Field of Dreams” movie site.

The clothes we wore, like the crops we worked, marked the seasons on the dairy farm of my youth. Coveralls, for example, suggested winter while, ahem, “cover little” meant the hot, steamy southern Illinois summer.

In the southwest toe of Indiana, 25 miles north of the Ohio River and 12 miles east of the Wabash, the Seib family farm continues its legacy.

With baseball and softball season underway and the kickoff to summer grilling season fast approaching, the “Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner.” brand, funded by the Beef Checkoff, has announced its partnership with the Little League World Series.

Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., baseball’s “Iron Man” who holds the record for most consecutive games played, will be among the featured speakers at Dairy Strong, one of the Midwest’s premiere conferences for the dairy community.

The Fort Wayne TinCaps and Indiana Pork donated more than 2,000 meals, including more than 500 pounds of ground pork, to the Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana.

Nobody is complaining about fighting mud and rain showers to get their first crop of hay put up. Getting the last of the corn up and what kind of corn crop we will have is a whole other kettle of fish.

Well, with the coming of fall, the breeding flock goes into landscaping duties, so they have been traveling from farm to farm, making farmettes look pretty. With the warm weather we’ve had, it’s been fun and nice, but reality hit the third week of November.

Needless to say, breeding season has just gotten into full swing around here. As I write, the boys are still AI breeding on that big group of heifers. Most of them they heat detected and bred. Now it’s time to time breed the ones that haven’t shown signs of estrous. We used the s