Month: March 2019

The Government Accountability Office says the USDA has not made procedures to prevent Foot and Mouth Disease in U.S. livestock a priority. The GAO recommends the administrator of APHIS should follow the agency’s standard operating [Read More…]

Farmers in southeastern Minnesota, like many in other parts of the Corn Belt, have varying degrees of optimism about an early spring. Brennen Toquam of Blooming Prairie says despite record snowfall over the winter and [Read More…]

The EPA urges agriculture to comment on its new Clean Water rule proposal, “We really encourage the stakeholders, particularly agriculture, to comment. Read the proposal, comment. Let us know what we got right. Let us [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures ended the day with moderate gains on technical buying.  April closed $.72 higher at $127.40 and June closed $1.02 higher at $120.35. March closed $.45 lower at $141 [Read More…]

The National Corn Growers Association says the EPA has taken another step to chip away at the Renewable Fuels Standard and corn demand, “hurting America’s corn farmers.” The EPA, under new administrator Andrew Wheeler, has [Read More…]

Michigan Farm Bureau says Michigan agriculture actually fared quite well in Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s first proposed budget for the state. Matt Smego tells Brownfield key priorities for funding the Michigan Department of Agriculture include $5 [Read More…]

Soybeans were modestly lower on fund and technical selling, after another up and down day. Nothing’s official, but it looks like trade talks between the U.S. and China won’t happen this month. No date for [Read More…]

The USDA says production of dairy products during January continued to climb for most major categories. Total cheese production was 1.1 billion pounds, up 0.4 percent from last year and 0.7 percent from December.  Both [Read More…] [Read More…]

The USDA says production of dairy products during January continued to climb for most major categories. Total cheese production was 1.1 billion pounds, up 0.4 percent from last year and 0.7 percent from December.  Both [Read More…]

A group of bipartisan lawmakers are reintroducing the DAIRY PRIDE Act in Congress to address the mislabeling of non-dairy products. Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat, tells Brownfield the FDA is supposed to enforce current [Read More…]