Month: August 2018

A farmer network has created an independent seed brand which will offer seed at 40 percent of the current market price. Farmer’s Business Network’s head of seed Ron Wulfkuhle will lead the F2F Genetics Network. [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures ended the day higher on strength in wholesale values.  Feeder cattle were mostly lower on commercial spread trade.  August live cattle closed $.77 higher at $107.95 and [Read More…]

A regional technical manager with FMC Corporation says many farmers in the Midwest are facing late season disease pressure in soybeans. Gail Stratman says frogeye leaf spot continues to expand into the Corn Belt. “Growers [Read More…]

A sugarbeet leader says the sugar industry has its own trade issues as a global surplus weighs on the market. Luther Markwart with the American Sugar Alliance tells Brownfield subsidized production of sugar in countries [Read More…]

A top White House official says the U.S. and Mexico are in the final stages of reaching a deal to update NAFTA. “The deal with Mexico is very, very close. The team has been working [Read More…]

CommonGround Nebraska recently held its first-ever “Banquet on the Farm” on a farm north of Omaha. Hilary Maricle, a farmer from Albion, Nebraska, was one of the CommonGround volunteers working at the event. “What we [Read More…]

Corn development in the state is well ahead of last year at this time. As of Sunday 72% was at the dough stage. Eleven percent was dented. Three-fourths of the corn crop is in fair [Read More…]

Corn development is well ahead of last year in Illinois. As of Sunday, 90 percent had reached the dough stage, compared to 74 percent a year ago. Forty-five percent has reached the dent stage. Seventy-seven [Read More…]

As of Sunday, nearly 50% of Missouri’s corn crop was in poor to very poor condition. Only 22% is good. Corn development is ahead of last year. According to the USDA’s Missouri NASS office, more [Read More…]

The president of the Minnesota Pork Producers Association suspects those behind the ag nuisance lawsuits in North Carolina are trying to take down the entire industry. Greg Boerboom runs a farrow-to-finish farm near Marshall in [Read More…]

A Michigan investment company has announced its second acquisition of an independent regional seed company. Tillerman Seeds has acquired Wisconsin-based Legacy Seeds Inc. which produces alfalfa, corn, wheat, soybeans and cover crop seeds. The deal [Read More…]

Acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler says there is no decision yet on regulations that would allow E15 to be sold year-round. “I can’t tell you the timeline,” Wheeler says. “We are mindful of needing to [Read More…]

  Across the Corn Belt, showers are overspreading drought-affected areas in Missouri and environs. The rain is largely too late for corn but should benefit pastures and later-developing summer crops such as soybeans. On August [Read More…]

  Late-summer heat will persist in the West and spread eastward across the nation’s northern tier, reaching the northern High Plains by mid-week and the Great Lakes region by week’s end. Meanwhile, showery weather will [Read More…]