Month: November 2021

As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, you may be wondering how much turkey to buy. Meredith Carothers with the USDA’s Meat and Poultry Hotline has some tips ahead of grocery shopping. For more information call 888-674-6854 or [Read More…]

Conservation leaders in the Midwest are celebrating “no-till November”, a spin off of no-shave November, by encouraging farmers to consider no-till management plans. In this Managing For Profit, Illinois State Conservationist Ivan Dozier highlights the [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Meghan Grebner, Will Robinson and Cyndi Young will be on the ground in Kirksville, Missouri on December 3 & 4, 2021 for the Missouri Livestock Symposium. …     

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle ended the day mostly lower and feeders were higher watching corn, and direct cash business develop.  December live cattle closed $.12 lower at $131.87 and February live cattle [Read More…]

A west-central Minnesota farmer says yields are surpassing expectations. Gary Wertish runs a diversified grain and livestock farm in Renville County. “Coming through a drought year, we were pleasantly surprised on the yields we got. [Read More…]

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa says cattle producers across the country are counting on Congress to make real reforms to the cattle market. He says the bipartisan compromise bill announced earlier this week will [Read More…]

Iowa Congresswoman Cindy Axne is urging passage of bipartisan supply chain legislation she is cosponsoring now that Congress has passed the infrastructure bill. The Democrat says the four bills in her ‘Supply Chain Solutions Agenda’ [Read More…]

Michigan’s specialty crop sector has received $4 million for 18 projects enhancing the state’s competitiveness. Federal funding through the USDA’s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program was distributed through the state’s ag department to focus on [Read More…]

A livestock economist says the future of meat processing will likely take one of two routes depending on COVID-19. The University of Missouri’s Scott Brown tells Brownfield there is a lot of legislative and producer [Read More…]

A compromise bill announced this week takes another stab at addressing the price imbalance in the cattle industry. “We have a starting point here, but the Devil is in the details.” Ethan Lane with the [Read More…]

The USDA has cut the average farm price outlook for soybeans, raised the projection for wheat, and left corn unchanged. The average farm price for corn is $5.45 per bushel, steady with October and more [Read More…]

The USDA has increased its 2021 red meat and poultry production projections. Beef is pegged at 27.885 billion pounds, up 53 million from October, expecting higher fed cattle slaughter and average weights, with an average [Read More…]

The CEO of the nation’s largest farmer-owned cooperative says the company is well positioned to deal with supply chain limitations. Jay Debertin with CHS tells Brownfield their size and scale is an advantage going into [Read More…]

USDA is yet again calling for lower milk production 2021 and 2022 because of expectations for lower cow numbers and milk per cow. In its November supply and demand report, USDA raised butter, nonfat dry [Read More…]

The USDA has increased its outlooks for U.S. cotton and rice production. The upland cotton crop is pegged at 17.852 million bales, up 201,000 from October following an upward revision for average yield to 874 [Read More…]

Missouri Soybean Director of Biofuels and New Uses Matt Amick says that the recent application of soy-based asphalt sealant RePlay™ at the Center for Soy Innovation will extend the longevity of the center’s parking lot. [Read More…]