Year: 2020

A commodity firm has lowered its corn production estimate for southern Brazil by 20 percent for that region’s summer corn crop because of dry weather, which could have a positive effect on U.S. growers. The [Read More…]

Hannah Thompson-Weeman with the Animal Agriculture Alliance says people should be aware of activist groups that want to take advantage of new year resolutions to try to spread misinformation about meat and other animal food [Read More…]

Two decades of water quality research in the Upper Midwest has culminated in the first-ever Discovery Farms Summit. University of Wisconsin Discovery Farms co-director Amber Radatz says the farmer-led program started in Wisconsin and Minnesota [Read More…]

A Missouri hog farmer is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against California’s Proposition 12 that requires changes to sow housing for pork that comes from out-of-state. Todd Hayes tells Brownfield Ag News hog [Read More…]

The newest member of the Senate Agriculture Committee is Republican Kelly Loeffler of Georgia. Loeffler, who grew up on a McLean County, Illinois farm, was sworn in Monday to replace Johnny Isakson, who resigned at [Read More…]

20 years of research is helping farmers better understand soil and nutrient loss. Minnesota Discovery Farms co-director Tim Radatz says data from 35 farm sites in the Upper Midwest shows 75 percent of runoff happens [Read More…]