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A new, interactive play-based learning gallery for beef education made its debut at the Missouri State Fair this year. Teagan Engle, a student at the University of Missouri, says the mobile exhibit was designed to [Read More…]

The Missouri State Fair’s Sale of Champions and Best of Missouri Sale raised $384,500 on the final weekend of the fair. Ag Director Chris Chinn tells Brownfield it’s fun to see youth exhibitors showcase their [Read More…]

U.S. wheat trade numbers continue to reflect slow global demand. The USDA says wheat export inspections during the week ending August 20th were sharply below year ago levels and less than what’s needed to meet [Read More…]

Cash dairy prices were mixed Monday to start the week at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.     Dry whey was unchanged at $0.7025. No sales were reported.  Forty-pound cheese blocks were also unchanged at $1.5275. Twelve sales were reported ranging from [Read More…]

A professor in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois says three years of research shows that winter canola could be a profitable venture for Midwestern farmers. D.K. Lee says canola provides [Read More…]

As the growing season nears the finish line, Brevant Seeds retail sales agronomist Brianna Gehrig says farmers in northwestern Illinois dealt with a wet spring and rainy June. She tells Brownfield growers can use those [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, temperatures remain nearly ideal for filling to maturing summer crops, although soil moisture greatly varies across the region. Monday’s high temperatures will mostly range from 75 to 85°F, with some readings [Read More…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and rainfall across much of the country. Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to the Pacific Northwest and parts of [Read More…]