Month: April 2019

The dispute between a DePere area farm and local government officials over a farm expansion permit will be heard by a state board.  The Livestock Facility Siting Review Board will hear the appeal of Ledgeview [Read More…]

The Missouri Soybean Annual Research Report shows several projects with what Research Director Greg Luce says is a significant investment of checkoff dollars to improve the crop. To learn more, visit mosoy.org. Brought to you by [Read More…]

Spring fieldwork continues to be extremely limited across Minnesota. The latest crop progress report from USDA says there was less than one day suitable last week, mainly because of melting snow. There were scattered reports [Read More…]

The 2019 U.S. Baseline Outlook for U.S. agriculture projects continued financial stress. Pat Westhoff is director of FAPRI, the Food & Agricultural Policy Researcher Institute, with the University of Missouri, “We are showing a little [Read More…]

A winter storm is expected this week after spring-like weather covered much of the Midwest this past weekend. “This will be a wet, at least a wind-driven packing snow,” said Brownfield Meteorologist Greg Soulje. “Livestock [Read More…]

A crop input supplier expects fertilizer disruptions throughout the spring. Steve Carlsen with Minnesota-based West Central Distribution says recent flooding and the prospect of more moisture is complicating the transport of ag products to certain [Read More…]

African Swine Fever continues to spread throughout Asia.  Cases have now been identified in China, Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.  According to the USDA’s Foreign Ag Service, the disease has spread quickly through Vietnam since it [Read More…]

In times of tight margins farmers are looking for ways to diversify their operations and add additional forms of revenue.  For some farmers – that means adding hemp into their crop rotation. In this Managing [Read More…]