SOUTH BEND — Groceries cost more than they did six months ago, according to Indiana Farm Bureau’s semiannual “market basket” survey. This year, the average price of the sixteen food items included in the survey totaled $53.32, an increase of $2.14 from the fall of 2014. Indiana’s average is 82 cents cheaper than the national American …read more.

New reports cite the spread and outbreak of the Avian Influenza (AI) virus has reached a cage free commercial egg farm in Jefferson County, Wis. and a commercial egg farm in Osceola County, Iowa. As background, AI is caused by a flu-type virus that can infect poultry such as turkeys and chickens. Currently, Egg Innovations, …read more.