Ag News
Ahead of average harvest pace continues in MO
Corn harvest is nearing the halfway point and soybean harvest is just getting started in Missouri. USDA says corn harvest is 42% complete and soybean harvest is 12% complete, both ahead of average for this [Read More…]
Corn and rice harvest nearing completion in Arkansas
Arkansas farmers made good harvest progress last week. The USDA reports as of October 1st corn harvest is 92% complete followed by rice at 81%, soybeans at 47%, cotton at 12% and peanuts at 3%. [Read More…]
Rain slows Minnesota harvest
Rain slowed harvest activity in Minnesota last week. USDA’s latest crop update says widespread showers interrupted some fieldwork, but the corn harvest remains ahead of the five-year average at 18 percent complete. Soybeans are 33 [Read More…]
USDA-MSU sugarbeet research spans 100 years
USDA’s Agricultural Research Service is celebrating a century of sugarbeet research in Michigan. USDA-ARS plant pathologist and Michigan State University professor Dr. Linda Hanson tells Brownfield she discovered decades of research documents in the basement [Read More…]
Resources to talk conservation with your landowner
In this episode of IL Corn Connection, Illinois Corn Marketing Board District 8 Director and Peoria County farmer Ross Pauli highlights how corn checkoff investments are providing important conservation opportunities for farmers. He reviews conservation [Read More…]
Investigation underway into deadly accident involving anhydrous ammonia leak in southern Illinois
Residents in a rural southern Illinois town have been cleared to return home following a traffic accident that resulted in a large anhydrous ammonia leak Friday evening. The multi-vehicle collision on Route 40 near Teutopolis [Read More…]
New solution for costly soybean disease
Clark Smith, Corteva U.S. Product Manager for Fungicides and Nutrient Maximizers, says white mold causes millions of dollars in lost soybean yields each season. He tells Brownfield Corteva is excited to launch Viatude, a new [Read More…]
Bill could curb China’s ability to use American intellectual property
A bill that’s been introduced into the US Senate could help prevent China from intellectual property theft, including stealing agriculture technology. Nebraska Senator Pete Ricketts says the bill strengthens oversight of science and technology agreements [Read More…]
Government shutdown averted
The U.S. government and all agencies remain open for now. Congress appeared deadlocked Friday with many politicians and experts predicting a Saturday midnight government shutdown, but the U.S. House was able to pass a continuing [Read More…]
Opening Weekend Bow Hunting Plans
Archery season opens Sunday, October 1st in several states, and a hunter from south central Iowa says there are some advantages to hunting opening weekend. Kent Boucher, host of the First Gen Hunter Podcast, tells [Read More…]
A Journal for the American Farmer
Since 1895 John Deere’s agriculture magazine “The Furrow” has told the story of farmers, ranchers, and those who work the land. Bill Spiegel, contributing editor for The Furrow says the team travels the country to [Read More…]
Dairy Margin Coverage triggers payments again
The Dairy Margin Coverage Program will be paying out to farmers for the eighth month in a row. USDA announced Friday the August income over feed margin is $6.46 per hundredweight. So far, the risk [Read More…]
Extremely variable crop getting harvested in west-central Minnesota
Wide ranging conditions are resulting in extreme variability as harvest begins in west-central Minnesota. Jamie Beyer of Wheaton describes the 2023 growing season as widely variable. “Yields are really running a pretty wide gamut and [Read More…]
A shutdown would pause the Federal Milk Marketing Order hearing
The USDA hearing on the Federal Milk Marketing Order system will have to pause if Congress cannot come to an agreement on how to fund the government after Midnight Saturday. The hearing in Mt. Carmel, [Read More…]
Harvest underway on southwest Minnesota farm
A southwest Minnesota farmer says harvest is just getting started. Mark Enninga of Fulda tells Brownfield recent rains have helped even out his soybeans. “There’s a few guys taking out some (earlier) corn, moistures are [Read More…]
Yields are expected to vary a lot
An agronomist says the combination of dry weather and different soil types is giving corn and soybean producers a variety of yield results. Arika Wech with Pioneer in southwestern Wisconsin tells Brownfield it’s difficult to [Read More…]
Cash, hog futures sharply lower to end the week
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were sharply lower on technical selling and concerns about a government shutdown. October live cattle closed $2.30 lower at $184.20 and December live cattle closed $2.50 [Read More…]
Brisk harvest pace in northwest Minnesota
Harvest is advancing quickly in northwest Minnesota. Blair Hoseth of Mahnomen tells Brownfield he’s about 90 percent done with soybeans. “We started (around) Labor Day and we had beans down as low as 9 percent [Read More…]
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: September 29, 2023
Dec. corn closed at $4.76 and 3/4, down 11 and 3/4 centsNov. soybeans closed at $12.75, down 25 and 1/2 centsOct. soybean meal closed at $375.90, down $16.50Oct. soybean oil closed at 57.44, down 109 pointsDec. [Read More…]
Lower oat production in 2023
The USDA is predicting a smaller oat crop in 2023. The crop is pegged at 57.045 million bushels, 1% lower than last year, with declines in harvested and planted area more than canceling out a [Read More…]