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A significant increase in lamb prices is helping young farmers expand into the industry. Sam and Chase Bos work as agriscience teachers in West Michigan while supporting the family’s commercial ewe operation. “The lamb market [Read More…]

The program director with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy says the latest iteration of the farm bill being discussed by Congress raises concerns around conservation funding. During a recent IATP webinar, Michael Happ [Read More…]

Bayer has announced a restructuring of its U.S. glyphosate business, creating a new entity called Ruveon. The company says Ruveon will focus on all aspects of glyphosate including pricing, go-to-market strategies, production and logistics. It [Read More…]

A crop protection specialist says growers should consider adding adjuvants to tank mixes when using spray drones. On this episode of Managing for Profit, the strategic marketing manager of adjuvants for WinField United discusses how [Read More…]

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says he’s continuing to monitor New World screwworm developments in the southern part of the country. The Iowa Republican tells Brownfield the pest hasn’t pushed too far north. “They are making [Read More…]

An agronomist in southwest Minnesota is giving crops high marks. Jacob Foley is with DEKALB/Asgrow. “I’d give this year so far, I’d give it an ‘A’ I think.” He says crop development is ahead of [Read More…]

The chairman of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee says he’s supportive of a farm bill draft that’s been released in the U.S. Senate. Glenn “GT” Thompson from Pennsylvania says it looks different from the House’s [Read More…]

Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying. There was renewed talk about China buying U.S. beans ahead of Thursday’s export sales report. No new sales to China have been announced yet this week, [Read More…]

The chairman of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee says he’s supportive of a farm bill draft that’s been released in the U.S. Senate. Glenn “GT” Thompson from Pennsylvania says it looks different from the House’s [Read More…]

Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying. There was renewed talk about China buying U.S. beans ahead of Thursday’s export sales report. No new sales to China have been announced yet this week, [Read More…]

Questions loom over the status of E15 legislation in the U.S. Senate.  “Mixed signals is very accurate.” Iowa Farm Bureau president Brent Johnson says he’s heard members of Congress say E15 can’t pass on its [Read More…]

An ag economist says declining farm income trends continue to raise concerns across the farm economy. Scott Irwin, professor and chair of agricultural marketing at the University of Illinois, says the downward movement has occurred [Read More…]

A market analyst says it remains to be seen if Iran begins to make purchases of U.S. ag goods. Jim McCormick is with AgMarket.Net and says, “That’s the hard part about it because we’re dealing with [Read More…]

U.S. ethanol production rose to a multi-month high last week, propelled by margins and demand expectations. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.117 million barrels per day, the highest since mid-April, and up [Read More…]

The USDA sent out more farmer surveys for the June acreage report, but Seth Meyer with MU’s Food and Ag Policy Research Institute says the response still wasn’t great. “They compensate on pure response numbers [Read More…]

Cash dairy prices were mostly unchanged Wednesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.     Dry whey was unchanged at $0.68. No sales were reported.  Forty-pound cheese blocks were unchanged at $1.43.  Twenty-one sales were recorded ranging from $1.4100 to $1.45.  Cheese barrels were unchanged at $1.4750. No sales were reported.  Butter was down $0.0175 to $1.68. Twenty-two sales [Read More…]

In this episode of Managing for Profit, Michael Langemeier with Purdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture takes a deeper dive into the latest Ag Economy Barometer survey. The post Ag economist says increased land-use pressures likely [Read More…]

Several agriculture groups are in support of a new ag labor bill introduced by House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson this week. In a press conference, National Milk Producers Federation CEO Gregg Doud said [Read More…]

In its June acreage report, the USDA said the U.S. rice planted area fell to a multi-decade low this spring, while cotton acres were higher than expected. Hunter Biram, an ag economist with University of [Read More…]

An ag economist says USDA’s latest quarterly stocks figures are positive for grain prices. Dr. Megan Roberts with Compeer Financial tells Brownfield corn supplies being 14 percent higher than a year ago should be bearish. [Read More…]