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The USDA is projecting a bigger domestic hay crop in 2024. Total hay production is estimated at 74.45 million tons, up 8% from 2023 with an improved yield of 2.07 tons per acre thanks to [Read More…]

Six Indiana 4-H members were named champions during the 2024 Indiana State Fair Supreme Drive. Sponsored by Indiana Farm Bureau, winning 4-H participants from each female breeding category went on to take part in the [Read More…]

Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA has lowered that nation’s corn production estimate due to weather issues in some key growing areas. CONAB now has Brazil’s total corn crop at 115.649 million tons, 0.2% lower than [Read More…]

Many people are Driven to Deliver for Iowa’s soybean farmers. On this latest episode of Seeds of Success, a leader with the Iowa Soybean Association discusses why it’s important for a farmer-led organization to recognize [Read More…]

In this Pods for Profit, we’ll hear how Henry Ford’s curiosity for the soybean paved the way for thousands of innovations. Michigan Soybean Committee’s John Burk joins us to discuss what farmers are doing now [Read More…]

A western Kansas farmer says corn is being challenged by a lack of moisture. Clay Schemm tells Brownfield… “I’ve been seeing a lot of fields of corn getting plowed under and they might go back [Read More…]

Iowa farmers spent a mostly dry week harvesting oats, cutting and baling alfalfa, and preparing for fall harvest. USDA’s latest weekly crop report says the oat harvest is 93 percent complete, one day ahead of [Read More…]

Soybeans were sharply lower on speculative and technical selling. The USDA is projecting a record large U.S. soybean crop with an all-time high for yield and higher acreage numbers, along with larger new crop U.S. [Read More…]

It was a mostly dry week for Arkansas farmers, with almost no rainfall but most crops are doing well. Twenty-seven percent of the corn is in excellent condition, with 52% in good and 17% in [Read More…]

The USDA says corn is maturing nicely, and soybeans and cotton are steadily progressing, but more rain is needed. Crop conditions have improved across the board, but concerns remain about yield outlook and prices headed [Read More…]

There’s a lot of variability in crop condition and development across Minnesota. University of Minnesota Extension crops educator Dave Nicolai tells Brownfield recent rainfall patterns could make it even more pronounced. “Southern Minnesota and southwestern [Read More…]

Kentucky had below-normal precipitation and temperatures last week. The state’s corn crop condition declined to 65 percent good to excellent.  Ninety-three percent of the crop is silking, 61 percent is in the dough stage and [Read More…]

Wisconsin’s crops are improving with the favorable weather. USDA statistician Greg Bussler says rain early last week stalled some field work, especially in central Wisconsin, but hay, small grain, and potato harvesting continued. Eighty-four percent [Read More…]

USDA says more than three quarters of Missouri’s corn and soybean crop remain in good to excellent condition. As of Sunday, Missouri’s corn condition is rated 81% good to excellent, a 4% improvement over last [Read More…]

In South Dakota, USDA says all crop condition ratings improved the first week of August. Corn is rated 73% good to excellent with 5% of the corn dented, in-line with the average. Soybeans are now [Read More…]

The director of the Indiana State Department of Agriculture says a $2 million grant to help the state’s food banks will address food insecurity. Don Lamb says this is just the first step. “Giving that [Read More…]

The USDA sees bigger cotton and rice crops in 2024 than 2023. Upland cotton production is projected at 14.555 million bales, an increase of 24% on the year with a decline in average yield to [Read More…]

The implementation of the PQA Plus – a producer education and certification program designed by the U.S. pork industry to help pig farmers continually improve production practices has helped reduce the risk of food safety [Read More…]

Cash dairy prices were mostly higher Monday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  Dry whey was unchanged at $0.5625.  No sales were recorded.  Forty-pound cheese blocks were up $0.0425 at $2.00.   Two sales were recorded at [Read More…]