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An Iowa-based dairy processor says they’ve been waiting for the right opportunity to expand in Michigan. “This will be the largest permeate plant in the world.” Vice President of Business Development Mark Peterson with Proliant [Read More…]

The head of CropLife America says the federal appeals court ruling last week for the EPA to ban a pesticide is flawed, “It has serious procedural and precedential issues and, beyond that, we don’t think [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures ended the day lower on the lack of any supportive fundamentals and technical selling.  August live cattle closed $1.05 lower at $107.20 and October contracts closed $1.10 lower [Read More…]

Minnesota crops are maturing faster than normal. The latest USDA report says 65 percent of corn has reached the dough stage, one week ahead of the five-year average. More than 90 percent of soybeans are [Read More…]

Monsanto plans to vigorously defend its Roundup herbicide and will appeal a California court decision linking the product to cancer. A jury in San Francisco Superior Court has awarded a former school groundskeeper who has [Read More…]

Some farmers might be skeptical of the USDA projecting record corn yields given some of the challenges this growing season. But, Minnesota Farm Bureau president Kevin Paap says many parts of the Corn Belt have [Read More…]

Class III milk futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange closed lower Monday to take back Friday’s gains. August milk closed down two cents at $15.02.  September milk down 11 cents at $16.02. October down 17 [Read More…]

An ag economics professor at Purdue University says the proposed trade relief package could cause even more problems for farmers. Wally Tyner says other countries, like Canada, are trying to bring a World Trade Organization [Read More…]

U.S. ambassador to China and former Iowa governor Terry Branstad says President Trump is justified in challenging China on the issue of free trade. “China has not treated us or other countries fairly for a [Read More…]

Two Iowa farmers say they’re looking forward to a good harvest this fall. Josh Nelson farms with family near Belmond in north-central Iowa. He says they’ve probably lost about ten percent of their corn and [Read More…]

Severe to extreme drought conditions continue across much of Missouri. Northwest Missouri cattleman Don Fischer says, in his 40 years of farming, he’s never seen it so dry. “Ponds are drying up. The hay crop [Read More…]

A California jury has ordered Monsanto to pay 289 million dollars in damages in the first of possibly thousands of U.S. lawsuits over alleged links between its glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide and cancer. The case of [Read More…]

The USDA reports soybean export inspections remain on pace to meet projections for the 2017/18 marketing year. The current marketing year for beans, corn, and sorghum runs through the end of August. Wheat came out [Read More…]