Month: April 2025

Across the Corn Belt, cool, damp, mostly cloudy weather is slowing or halting spring fieldwork.  Rain showers are affecting several areas, including still-flooded lowlands in the Ohio Valley.  By April 6, oat planting was 15 [Read More…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures from the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys into the Great Lakes and Northeastern States, while warmer-than-normal weather will dominate areas from the [Read More…]

USDA’s Thursday supply and demand report projects milk production will continue to go up in 2025.  That’s based on larger cow inventories and slightly higher milk yields per cow. Prices for butter, cheese, nonfat dry [Read More…]

Conditions are nearly fit to begin planting across much of southern Minnesota. Dan Glessing farms west of the Twin Cities near Waverly. “We’re getting close. There are some grey hills, but there’s still some black [Read More…]

A longtime ag economist with Purdue University says farmers need to scrutinize their input budgets in a down economy. Mike Boehlje, professor emeritus, says systematically approaching input purchases can boost profitability. “What we have tried [Read More…]

Ag policy specialists are watching how Congress uses the budget reconciliation process to fund parts of a new farm bill. Randy Russell tells Brownfield “there’s going to be, at least an effort made, to take [Read More…]

New legislation that would extend 45Z biofuel tax credits has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate. The bipartisan Farmer First Fuel Incentive Act was introduced Thursday by Republican Roger “Doc” Marshall of Kansas and Democrat [Read More…]

An extension weed scientist says many Arkansas farmers are back at the starting line for managing weeds following excessive rains and flooding. “Fields are just starting to dry out now. I would imagine now through [Read More…]

Trade experts say non-tariff trade barriers and other ag provisions should be addressed in next year’s review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Luis Rosendo Guiterrez, the Undersecretary of Foreign Trade in Mexico, says biotechnology, import-export efficiencies [Read More…]

A past president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association says an increase in domestic use could provide a boost for producers during a time of trade uncertainty. Lance Lillibridge tells Brownfield, “That can happen with [Read More…]