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Soybeans were higher on fund and technical buying. The USDA lowered U.S. old crop stocks with strong domestic crush canceling out lower exports and sees even tighter new crop supplies due to better export demand [Read More…]

Collaborators at Michigan State University are working to strengthen the flexibility and resilience of agriculture and food supply chains during major disruptions. Co-Director of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture Ian Olson tells Brownfield systems need [Read More…]

The U.S. produced less cotton in 2025 than 2024. Upland production last year was 13.492 million bales, down 447,000 from the year before that, with a decline in yield  to 842 pounds per acre canceling [Read More…]

The U.S. Dairy Export Council says eight percent growth in March shipments continued year-over-year gains for the sixth straight month. Cheese exports increased 29 percent in March, setting a record high for the month, and [Read More…]

The Illinois Corn Marketing Board continues to utilize corn checkoff dollars to find new uses for homegrown corn to drive domestic demand. In this Managing for Profit, Mike Malloy, co-founder of Aer-terra filters, manufacturers of [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Meghan Grebner cover the 2026 R-CALF USA Annual Meeting The post R-CALF USA Annual Meeting appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.     

The immediate fate of nationwide year-round E15 could be decided tomorrow.  American Coalition for Ethanol CEO Brian Jennings says the U.S. House plans to vote twice Wednesday, first to decouple E15 legislation from the farm [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, frost and freezes were observed early Monday in parts of the upper Midwest, extending as far south as northern Iowa. Although much of the Midwest has adequate soil moisture, the ongoing [Read More…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of warmer-than-normal weather nationwide, except for near-normal temperatures in the Pacific Northwest. Meanwhile, wetter-than-normal conditions across the middle section of the country, including much [Read More…]

Missouri’s attorney general says she would like to see the U.S. Supreme Court resolve an interstate commerce issue that continues to impact how U.S. livestock farmers operate. Catherine Hanaway tells Brownfield it’s a problem when [Read More…]

A farmer in central Missouri says he’s glad to finally have a few dry days to be back planting corn and soybeans. Brandon Thiel from Saline County tells Brownfield the rain delays in April and [Read More…]

Soybeans were higher for the second straight session, July beans were up $.05 at $12.13.  The trade is looking ahead to Tuesday’s supply and demand report from the USDA. That’s out at Noon Eastern/11 Central.  [Read More…]

An agronomist and corn product manager with Peterson Farms Seed says corn planting is making good progress in the Northern Plains. Rick Swenson tells Brownfield many farmers in South Dakota hit the fields at the [Read More…]

The general manager of Oahe Grain Corporation in central South Dakota says it’s been a slow, weather-challenged start to the growing season. Kevin Kjorsvik tells Brownfield the spring wheat has had a slow start due [Read More…]

A southeast Michigan farmer says Monday was his first day of planting. Lenawee County’s Zach Schaffner tells Brownfield, “We’ve had just a ton of rainy weather.” “It’s been hard to even think about getting out there, [Read More…]

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An agricultural economist at the University of Illinois says there’s an air of uncertainty over the 2026 farm income picture. In a recent FarmDoc webinar, Nick Paulson says farmers saw early year gains in the [Read More…]

Corteva Agriscience Market Development Specialist, Scott Pringnitz, says the Enlist weed control system provides farmers with excellent control of tough weeds that have already emerged. When tank mixed with a residual herbicide, he tells Brownfield [Read More…]

The U.S. House is expected to take up a bill this week that would authorize the sale of nationwide, year-round E15. Chairman of the Nebraska Ethanol Board and McCook farmer Jan TenBensel says the process [Read More…]

An entomologist says she’s paying close attention to the number of true armyworm moths flying north this spring. Krista Hamilton with Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection tells Brownfield they started placing moth [Read More…]