Year: 2022

Spotty rain showers across Kansas last week slowed harvest.  The USDA says 93 percent of corn has been harvest with 88 percent of soybeans in. Winter wheat condition is 26 percent good-to-excellent with 93 percent [Read More…]

Winter wheat condition has dropped in Nebraska as historic drought continues. The USDA says 24 percent of the crop is rated good-to-excellent.  Ninety-six percent of the crop has emerged. Ninety percent of the corn crop [Read More…]

An agronomist says farmers might need to scout fields again for standability issues if they’ve received recent rains.  Bob Berkovich with Pioneer in Wisconsin says much of his state received between two and three inches [Read More…]

An extension agronomist says yields have been a mixed bag in Iowa. Meaghan Anderson is with Iowa State University. “In a lot of areas people were pleasantly surprised with the yields that they got,” she [Read More…]

Milk futures and cash dairy prices were mixed Monday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. November Class III milk was up $0.02 at $20.90.  December was up $0.12 at $20.47.  January was down $0.02 at $19.73.  [Read More…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of colder-than-normal conditions nationwide, except some lingering near- or above-normal temperatures along the Atlantic Seaboard.  Meanwhile, wetter-than-normal weather along the middle Atlantic Coast and [Read More…]

U.S. wheat export inspections as of the week ending November 3rd are ahead of the pace needed to meet USDA projections for the current marketing year. The 2022/23 marketing year started June 1st for wheat [Read More…]