Year: 2025

 A rancher in the Nebraska Sandhills says recent moisture has brought significant relief to drought conditions. “It was just about the perfect rain. I couldn’t have asked for a better rain.” Jaclyn Wilson of Lakeside [Read More…]

An east central Nebraska farmer says it’s been an unusually quick planting season. Chris Clausen of Schuyler tells Brownfield it’s been warm and dry. “Corn is probably 80 to 85 percent finished in our area, [Read More…]

The deputy director of the Illinois Stewardship Alliance says a proposal gaining momentum in the state legislature would expand on-farm processing exemptions for poultry producers. Liz Rupel tells Brownfield it would increase the state’s exemption [Read More…]

Cash dairy prices were higher except butter Wednesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.    Dry whey was up $0.0250 at $0.55. One sale was recorded at that price.  Forty-pound cheese blocks were up $0.0350 at $1.82.  [Read More…]

Soil crusting is a concern for farmers in north Iowa who planted corn ahead of Easter weekend. Josh Hitzhusen of rural Rockwell says it’s too early to tell if emergence is uneven. “We don’t know [Read More…]

Photo by Brownfield’s Erin Anderson. Fuel retailers are working on expanding access to E15 across the country. Ron English with JT Petroleum says it’s all hands-on deck to expand consumer access to E15.  “We tend [Read More…]

An economist says Mexico’s purchases of US ag exports is one of the biggest success stories in the last decade. Rob Fox, director of Knowledge Exchange with CoBank tells Brownfield, “I’d be shocked that within [Read More…]

A livestock economist says the cattle market is in uncharted territory. But Josh Maples, with Mississippi State University, says, “It’s not unexpected.” “Live cattle prices were at $221,” he says.  “You know that beat the [Read More…]

Research from the Crop Protection Network found that Cercospora leaf blight the number one soybean yield robbing disease in 2024. In this episode of Managing for Profit, BASF’s technical marketing manager Albre Brown says farmers should proactively manage [Read More…]