Month: May 2025

John Deere plans to invest $20 billion in the U.S. over the next decade. Chief Financial Officer Josh Jepsen tells Brownfield the announcement reiterates the company’s commitment to U.S. manufacturing. “Our roots are in manufacturing [Read More…]

U.S. ethanol production had a week-to-week increase. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.036 million barrels per day, rising 43,000 from the previous as some plants wrapped up seasonal maintenance and moving 17,000 [Read More…]

The USDA’s next Cattle on Feed report is out Friday. Charley Martinez, University of Tennessee ag economist says, “I’m always interested to see just where we are in terms of total numbers.” He tells Brownfield [Read More…]

Interest in sustainable aviation fuel is soaring in Asia. Minnesota Soybean Growers executive director Joe Smentek recently traveled to Hong Kong as part of a USDA trade mission and says there were discussions about the [Read More…]

A small grains breeder at the University of Illinois says results from this year’s Illinois Wheat Association annual winter wheat tour are encouraging. “No news is good news.  We didn’t really see anything out of [Read More…]

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins says a multi-agency effort is underway to help improve the nation’s farm labor crisis. “If our farmers can’t have the workforce they need, which many cannot, and don’t have access to. [Read More…]

Nebraska has become the fourth state to ban lab-grown protein. On Tuesday, Governor Jim Pillen signed a bill into law that bans the production, sale, promotion and distribution in the state. While it doesn’t affect [Read More…]

The Chairman and Ranking Member of the U.S. House Ag Committee presented their case to the Rules Committee as the House continues its work to advance a budget bill. Chairman Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA) [Read More…]

The American Soybean Association and other ag groups have filed a brief with the Supreme Court for glyphosate labeling clarity. In this episode of Managing for Profit, ASA’s senior director of government affairs Kyle Kunkler explains [Read More…]