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USDA Anticipate 50% Increase in Winter Wheat Production

Despite dry weather in the past month, Indiana farmers anticipate good wheat yields in 2023.

Nathanial Warenski, State Statistician of the USDA  Indiana Field Office says the Indiana winter wheat production is anticipated to be 29.3 million bushels, up 50 percent from last year on more harvested acres.

The crop condition was rated 79 percent good to excellent at the beginning of June compared to 64 percent a year ago.

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Online Sheep Auction & Trying To Get Sheep Fed!

Video: Online Sheep Auction & Trying To Get Sheep Fed!

It's time for some new Dorset breeding rams at Ewetopia Farms, so we head to the Morinville Colony online sheep auction to see what they have available. We show you what is involved with bidding online and what a "race horse" finish looks like.

The following days are spent trying to get our sheep fed. We are totally out of hay at the moment so we are getting by with feeding the sheep some old hay supplemented with grain, sharing pastures with the various sheep groups, and working hard to get hay cut between rain showers. Not easy!