Month: May 2023

One of the biggest stories coming out of the ag world last week was the fact that the Black Sea grain initiative, which established a safe transportation corridor allowing Ukraine to export commercial food and [Read More…]

A central Kansas farmer says sunflowers have been a bright spot in the multi-year drought. Cameron Peirce from Hutchinson says the crop has a good root system and did well last year. “In 2022, we [Read More…]

Minnesota Farm Bureau Foundation director Ruth Meirick says one of the primary focuses of the organization is mental health.  She tells Brownfield Minnesota Farm Bureau is bring awareness to death by suicide among farm families [Read More…]

Michigan’s legislature has proposed dialing back funding for the state’s agricultural department. As the two chambers enter conference, Senator Sue Shink, Michigan Natural Resources and Agriculture chair and vice chair of the appropriations subcommittee, tells [Read More…]

Warm weather last week ramped up planting and hay harvest across Michigan. As of Sunday, the USDA says sugarbeets are 95 percent planted and 90 percent emerged.  Soybeans are 57 percent planted and corn is [Read More…]

Uneventful weather will cover many parts of the country for much of the week, although exceptions may include heavy rain along the southern Atlantic Coast and mid- to late-week showers and thunderstorms across the Plains [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, warm, dry weather favors fieldwork, including corn and soybean planting, as well as winter wheat development and summer crop emergence and growth.  However, smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to drift southward, [Read More…]