Month: January 2024

A recent USDA report says foreign-owned ag land in the United States increased slightly in 2022. Danny Munch, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the biggest increases happened in forestland across Alabama, [Read More…]

A market analyst says the improved weather in the dry crop growing areas of South America isn’t helping U.S. grain and oilseed prices as the New Year begins. But Don Roose with U.S. Commodities tells [Read More…]

The USDA says corn, soybean, and wheat export inspections during the week ending December 28th, 2023 were slower than what’s needed to meet projections for the current marketing year. The 2023/24 marketing got underway June [Read More…]

The Global Dairy Trade index rose 1.2% in the first trading session of the new year Tuesday.  It’s the third straight trading event with a rise in the index. The average price  was $3,363 dollars [Read More…]

The executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association says sustainable aviation fuel could become the largest new market in the history of agriculture. Monte Shaw tells Brownfield, “We created a 14-billion-gallon a year market [Read More…]

In this week’s Soil Health Hotline, a partnership with Sound Agriculture and Brownfield Ag News, Sound Agriculture Senior Agronomist Jessica Pupo explains the impact of micronutrients to the soil. …     

A generally quiet weather pattern across much of the country will become suddenly more active as the week progresses.  Initially, storminess will increase by the middle of the week in the Pacific Coast States, with [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, mild, dry weather prevails.  Despite patchy snow on the ground, many Midwestern producers continue to perform farm-maintenance activities, amid relatively dry soil-moisture profiles and near- or above-normal temperatures.  Tuesday’s Midwestern temperatures [Read More…]