Year: 2022

Some fertilizer prices are dropping, but a trade expert says many farmers are not seeing that lower price at home. Josh Linville with Stone X tells Brownfield urea markets have gone down. “We are seeing [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. Crush margins are solid, overall demand is good, and soybean oil bounced off recent lows, but there’s not a lot of buying interest this week ahead of [Read More…]

Photo courtesy of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture. Indiana poultry producers continue to address food insecurity in the state.  Over the past year, farmers have donated nearly 200,000 pounds of poultry products to Hoosiers [Read More…]

U.S. poultry production was up in October. The USDA says 4.592 billion pounds of poultry were certified as wholesome, up 5% on the year, including a 6% increase in chicken to 4.113 billion pounds, which [Read More…]

The chairman of the American Sugar Alliance says farmers need higher base prices in the next farm bill. Ryan Weston tells Brownfield input prices are up to 200 percent more than last year and farm [Read More…]

U.S. red meat and poultry in cold storage at the end of October were above year ago levels. That followed aggressive marketing of cattle, hogs, and chickens during the month. Several turkey categories notched record [Read More…]

Milk futures were mixed and cash dairy prices were down Tuesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange with the exception of butter. December Class III milk was down $0.25 at $21.00.  January was down $0.09 at [Read More…]

A farmer in west-central Minnesota plans to keep busy through the end of the year. Swift County corn and soybean grower Nathan Collins tells Brownfield there’s a misconception that farm activity goes quiet at the [Read More…]