Month: June 2019

South Dakota corn is 56 percent good to excellent. Corn planting is 95 percent complete. Soybeans are 55 percent good to excellent. Planting is 84 percent finished. Winter wheat is 67 percent good to excellent. [Read More…]

Corn planting is 92 percent complete. The crop is only 28 percent good to excellent. Two-thirds of the soybeans are planted; 31 percentage points behind last year. The crop is 36 percent good to excellent. [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures closed mostly lower ahead of widespread direct cash business with pressure from the lack of strong wholesale demand and carry-over from the lean hog trade.  Feeder cattle [Read More…]

Former USDA communications director Terri Moore will lead the American Farm Bureau Federation’s communications efforts. Moore, who served U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, is currently with the food and ag consulting firm Look East. Moore [Read More…]

A University of Missouri extension agronomist says with new guidelines on when to hay or graze prevent plant acres from the USDA a different approach might be needed. Rob Myers tells Brownfield if farmers plan [Read More…]

Persistent rains that limited planting have also invigorated pastures. West-central Minnesota farmer Brady Wulf says they’re growing a crazy amount of grass right now. “What my dad likes to say is that if the crop [Read More…]

The director of the Illinois Corn Growers Association, Rodney Weinzierl, will focus on tillage and nutrient loss at the Illinois Sustainable Agriculture Partnership risk management conference in Sycamore, IL.  Weinzierl says farmers are naturally interested [Read More…]

American Agri-Women has created a Farmer Stress and Resiliency project to help farmers cope with recent challenges facing agriculture. Heather Hampton-Knodle tells Brownfield there are free webinars and other resources available on their website. “We [Read More…]

Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying. The trade was expecting mixed planting progress to be reported by the USDA after another wet weekend in many key growing areas and more on the [Read More…]

Wet and cool conditions continued in Michigan last week. USDA says 91 percent of corn and 69 percent soybeans are now planted and well behind average. Dry beans are 31 percent planted, more than 50 percent [Read More…]