Month: November 2025

For decades, Illinois corn growers have partnered with the Illinois Pork Producers Association on a number of initiatives to move the needle for both corn and pork. In this Managing for Profit, Jennifer Tirey, executive [Read More…]

The end of the 2025 U.S. corn and soybean harvests are in sight. It’s been a mixed fall across much of the Midwest and Plains, with stretches of favorable conditions for harvest and winter crop [Read More…]

The USDA says next week producers can start enrolling for the second wave of the Supplemental Crop Disaster Assistance Program. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Vaden says the program covers eligible commodities that were not [Read More…]

USDA says milk production was higher again in the September supply and demand report.  Higher milk cow inventories and robust milk per cow are credited with the jump in production.    USDA says the September [Read More…]

Land prices keep going up in value, and David Oppedahl from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago tells Brownfield those land values are helping farmers’ portfolios during the down farm economy, but it’s also making [Read More…]

A farmer in eastern Illinois says harvest wrapped up well ahead of normal. KJ Johnson grows corn and soybeans with his family in Champaign and Vermilion Counties. “Yields were good.”  He says, “Corn was a [Read More…]

Many landowners seem hesitant to use flexible lease agreements. University of Minnesota Extension educator Nathan Hulinksy says there’s concern about risk. “The idea of sharing some of that profit and loss with the cyclical agricultural [Read More…]

An eastern Kansas farmer says corn and soybean yields have varied this fall. Danieal Anderes says most if his soybean crop did well. “I think soil types, some other stuff and varieties got away from [Read More…]