Month: February 2024

Ohio State University Extension has launched a quarterly fertilizer survey to help farmers create more accurate farm budgets. Farm Management Field Specialist Eric Richer tells Brownfield the results should increase cost transparency. “We know that [Read More…]

The Arkansas Department of Agriculture and other ag groups continue to ask the EPA for clarification on the recent dicamba ruling from a District Court in Arizona. Arkansas Secretary of Ag Wes Ward says farmers [Read More…]

Tornadoes caused severe damage in Wisconsin and Illinois Thursday evening. One of the tornadoes touched down near Evansville, Wisconsin just before 6:00 pm.  Doug Rebout farms about ten miles south of where the storm touched [Read More…]

The president of the American Soybean Association says the district court’s ruling to vacate the 2020 registration of dicamba puts farmers in an immediate, costly bind. Josh Gackle tells Brownfield most farmers have already purchased [Read More…]

Northwest Missouri farmer Jordan Bottiger says he runs two John Deere tractors, a John Deere sprayer, and his planter is a Deere 1790. He tells Brownfield the technology continues to impress him, and allows him [Read More…]

Additional storminess emerging from the western U.S. will maintain unsettled conditions across the South over the next several days.  In fact, 5-day rainfall could reach 2 to 4 inches or more from eastern Texas to [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, colder, breezy weather is overspreading the upper Midwest, accompanied by a few snow showers.  The remainder of the Corn Belt continues to experience unusual warmth, with Friday’s high temperatures expected to [Read More…]

Average values for the most productive cropland in Illinois have risen nearly $6,000 an acre in two and a half years. Compeer Financial certified appraiser Ethan Koch says his benchmark for highly tillable top-quality ground [Read More…]