Ag News

Across the Corn Belt, cooler air has overspread the upper Midwest and the Great Lakes region.  Meanwhile, warmth lingers across the southern Corn Belt, where Wednesday’s high temperatures should range from 70 to 80°F.  Season-to-date [Read More…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across the South, East, and lower Midwest, while colder-than-normal conditions will cover the northern Plains, far upper Midwest, and the West.  [Read More…]

A former USDA Under Secretary says the Trump administration should honor farmer contracts for conservation programs funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. “A deal is a deal. A contract is a contract.” Robert Bonnie, the [Read More…]

A field agronomist with Pioneer says spring fieldwork could be underway for several farmers as soon as next week in eastern Missouri. “I’ve seen a couple of anhydrous tool bars starting to run and a [Read More…]

Minnesota Ag Commissioner Thom Petersen says biosecurity is the most important part of the USDA’s 5-point plan to address Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. “The farms that have had USDA’s Wildlife Services inspections have had little [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mostly lower, and feeder cattle were mostly higher ahead of the week’s direct business.  April lives closed $1.02 lower at $199.55 and June live cattle closed $.97 [Read More…]

May corn closed at $4.70 and 1/4, down 1 and 3/4 centsMay soybeans closed at $10.11 and 1/4, down 2 and 3/4 centsMay soybean meal closed at $301.80, down 50 centsMay soybean oil closed at [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. The USDA left U.S. ending stocks steady and made no changes to exports or production for Argentina and Brazil. The biggest domestic adjustment was the USDA lowering [Read More…]

USDA made minimal adjustments to the domestic balance sheet for rice. Rice ending stocks were unchanged from February at 47 million hundredweight, with an increase for imports canceled out by higher exports. The USDA did [Read More…]

The USDA has raised its outlook for 2025 beef and broiler production. Beef production is now pegged at 26.685 billion pounds, up 120 million from February on heavier dressed weights, with an average steer price [Read More…]

The USDA increased its ending stocks projection for U.S. wheat. Domestic 2024/25 wheat ending stocks are now pegged at 819 million bushels, up 25 million from February with the USDA raising imports and cutting exports, [Read More…]

Photo of biodiesel pump by Brent Barnett/Brownfield A number of biodiesel plants remain idled across Iowa and a U.S. Senator says he’s concerned about the pause in production. “The Biden administration screwed the whole industry [Read More…]

Farmers say they need a strong conservation program. Longtime Minnesota farmer Edwin Jostock says the weather is changing. “We’ve always had a cloudburst every now and then, but now we can get two or three [Read More…]

The head of Clean Fuels Alliance America says establishing market certainty is crucial to the future development of sustainable aviation fuels. Donnell Rehagen says the industry is still in its infancy. “This is really where [Read More…]

As a peninsula state, Michigan commodities have many transportation options. In this Pods for Profit, we’ll meet a logistics manager who focuses on rail transit. Kyle Hnatiuk with the Adrian & Blissfield Railroad Company and [Read More…]

The partnership between the Missouri Association of Meat Processors and the Missouri Beef Industry Council is an opportunity to promote beef products and the state’s beef industry. In this episode, Niki Cloud talks about the [Read More…]

Planting season is almost here, and an agricultural lender says most farm operations are financially in a position to acquire inputs and go forward despite the down farm economy, with better than expected balance sheets [Read More…]

The CEO of Growth Energy says 2025 could a milestone year for biofuels trade. Emily Skor tells Brownfield, “We are excited by this administration’s tough stance on trading markets where we don’t have fair access. [Read More…]

Missouri’s Attorney General has asked the Trump administration to investigate a $4.9 billion federal loan awarded to the Grain Belt Express. The project would construct transmission lines across Missouri to transport wind-generated energy from Kansas [Read More…]

A veterinarian and director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory says USDA’s Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza vaccination plan is unclear. Keith Poulsen tells Brownfield “as we get more details, we’ll continue to move forward in fighting [Read More…]