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In its latest crop progress report, the USDA says corn farmers worked around scattered thunderstorms late last week to bring planting to 40 percent complete. However, Lawrence Sukalski says his farm in Martin County has [Read More…]

A frustratingly small window for fieldwork has some farmers in southern Minnesota preparing for crop failures. Lawrence Sukalski grows corn and soybeans in south-central Minnesota near the Iowa border. He says in four decades of [Read More…]

A north-central Iowa farmer behind on planting says conditions resemble early April rather than mid-May. Wayne Fredericks of Osage is a strip and no-till corn and soybean grower who uses cover crops. He tells Brownfield [Read More…]

As of Sunday, 72 percent of Nebraska’s corn crop was planted, slight ahead of the five-year average, with 41 percent of soybeans in the ground, also ahead of normal. Winter wheat condition rated 64 percent [Read More…]

The pace of corn planting in Iowa varies widely, from 91 percent complete in the southeast to 26 percent in north-central Iowa. Overall, the state’s corn crop is 65 percent planted, up from 40 percent [Read More…]

Milk futures were higher and the cash dairy markets were mixed Monday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Class Three May milk was up $.01 at $15.24 a hundredweight. June was up $.23 to $16.09. July [Read More…]

A friend of the court brief has been filed by 14 state Attorneys General supporting the repeal of the Obama Administrations’ organic livestock and poultry practices rule. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley says the 2017 [Read More…]

The Farm Bill is a top priority in the U.S. House of Representatives this week.  Ag Committee Chairman Michael Conaway worked all weekend trying to round up support from other Republicans. The House Rules Committee [Read More…]

  The USDA reports that as of the week ending May 14th, sorghum export inspections remain ahead of the USDA’s anticipated pace for the 2017/18 marketing year. The current marketing year runs through the end [Read More…]

The next round of trade talks with China will continue tomorrow in DC. Tensions have been high since both countries announced tariffs on 50 billion dollars worth of goods, and President Trump proposed an additional [Read More…]

There are many factors that can keep a crop from breaking ground, including everything from low temperature to disease to herbicide injury. “There can be a lot of different things that can go wrong,” said [Read More…]