Ag News
Grain marketing basics and beyond
In this week’s Your Whole Farm Solution, a partnership with MFA and Brownfield Ag News, MFA’s Director of Grain Operations Eric Williams has a few grain marketing tips for farmers. …
New crop insurance program tailored for coverage of controlled environments
The USDA’s Risk Management Agency has unveiled a new crop insurance program for producers who use controlled environments in their operations. The Controlled Environment program is designed for plants grown in fully enclosed environments and [Read More…]
Reducing harvest losses
Harvesting the best yielding soybeans comes down to equipment, technique, and timing. In this Pods for Profit, soybean extension educator Mike Staton with Michigan State University will discuss tips for gearing in equipment and operator [Read More…]
Rain recharges Wisconsin soils, slows fieldwork
Heavy rains helped recharge soils but slowed activity in Wisconsin farm fields last week. USDA’s latest crop update says with only three days suitable for fieldwork, there was limited harvest progress statewide. Corn for grain [Read More…]
SD soybean harvest 20% complete
South Dakota farmers are making progress on soybean harvest as October begins. USDA says 20% of the soybeans are harvested, slightly behind the average pace. Only 16% of South Dakota’s corn has been harvested so [Read More…]
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…]