Month: May 2018

On September 10 Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Ken Anderson will be in Omaha, NE for the Midwest US-Japan Assn Conference.   Continue reading Midwest US-Japan Assn Conference at Brownfield Ag News.      

On June 18, Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Ken Anderson will be in Burwell, NE for the Nebraska Cattlemen’s Road Trip. . Continue reading Nebraska Cattlemen’s Road Trip at Brownfield Ag News.      

  U.S. ethanol production bounced back last week. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.032 million barrels a day, up 47,000 from the previous week, as some plants came back on line after [Read More…]

Dairy prices were mixed Wednesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  Class Three May milk was unchanged at $15.23 a hundredweight. June was down $.01 to $15.68. July was up $.01 to $16.06.  August was down [Read More…]

Reports of corn planting are starting to trickle in as fields warm up and dry out across southern Minnesota. University of Minnesota Extension crops educator Dave Nicolai says some New Ulm area farmers began earlier [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Mark Dorenkamp will be on the ground for the IA Renewable Fuels Forum in Mason City on May 17, 2018. Continue reading IA Renewable Fuels Forum at Brownfield Ag News.      

Direct cash cattle trade is quiet with a few scattered bids reported in parts of Kansas and Texas at $120 live and $195 to $196 dressed in Nebraska.  A few asking prices have been reported [Read More…]

While the pace of NAFTA negotiations has recently accelerated, it’s still unclear when an agreement might be reached. But U.S. Meat Export Federation Mexico director Oscar Ferrara says U.S. red meat customers in Mexico are [Read More…]

Commentary. The Missouri House has approved a bill, by a wide margin, that would ban fake meat from being labeled with the word “meat.” The bill says if a product does not come from livestock [Read More…]

The yield estimate from the first day of the Hard Winter Wheat Tour through Kansas and surrounding states came in at 38 bushels per acre. Dave Green with the Wheat Quality Council says that’s down [Read More…]