Ag News
Soybeans manage firm Friday finish as corn closes weak
Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying but ended the week with modest losses on harvest pressure and the relative strength in the dollar. Export demand is solid, with Spain and China buying [Read More…]
More rail and trucks hauling grain to Gulf
Barge availability along the Mississippi River is limited, causing an uptick in trail and rail demand to move grain for export. National Grain and Feed Association CEO Mike Seyfert says the amount of rail carloads [Read More…]
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: October 28, 2022
Dec. corn closed at $6.80 and 3/4, down 1 and 1/2 centsNov. soybeans closed at $13.87 and 3/4, up 5 and 1/2 centsDec. soybean meal closed at $425.40, up $10.00Dec. soybean oil closed at 71.79, [Read More…]
Reducing Sprayer Priming Waste with ReClaim
Farmers invest a lot of money in crop protection, so Precision Planting has moved into the sprayer market to help farmers address challenges with application equipment. This week Andrew Feucht returns to highlight ReClaim, a [Read More…]
The competition for space in the consumer’s shopping cart
Beef continues to face competition from plant-based alternatives, but is it losing ground? Jessica Lancaster with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says when it comes to taste and quality – beef continues to be the [Read More…]
Snodgrass: although river levels are low, they need to return to normal slowly
Low Mississippi River levels continue to complicate barge movement, but a principal atmospheric scientist says the levels need to return to normal slowly. Eric Snodgrass is also the senior science fellow with Nutrien Ag Solutions. [Read More…]
Baerlocher reflects on year as National FFA president
The 2021-2022 National FFA President is reflecting on his year at the helm of the organization. Cole Baerlocher says getting familiar with the unfamiliar is one of his biggest lessons from his time as National [Read More…]
Unseasonably mild weather ahead for the Heartland, increasingly wet on the Plains, across the West
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across the eastern half of the country, while cooler-than-normal conditions will cover the northern High Plains and the West. Meanwhile, below-normal [Read More…]
Cattle futures fall despite solid fundamentals
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures were lower on technical selling and at least some disappointment over the weekly export sales numbers. That caused traders to ignore the session’s positives: higher direct cash [Read More…]
Wisconsin farmers take advantage of late warm weather
A western Wisconsin farmer is grateful Mother Nature has brought some late-season warm weather to help finish the corn. Shane Goplin has begun harvesting corn near Osseo. He tells Brownfield, “We’re hunting and pecking on [Read More…]
Basis levels drying up along Mississippi River
Basis prices are softening along the Mississippi as river levels dry up. University of Minnesota Extension grain market economist Ed Usset tells Brownfield the basis for corn at the Savage barge loading facility south of [Read More…]
AgMarket.Net Convention
Brownfield’s Kellan Heavican will be on the ground at AgMarket.Net Convention in Nashville, Tennessee February 5 & 6, 2023. …
Minnesota farmer calls the past month a marathon
A crop and livestock farmer in southern Minnesota calls the past month a marathon. Wanda Patsche and her husband raise corn, soybeans, and hogs in Martin County. “We started our harvest probably about the last [Read More…]
Nebraska Senator Fischer hosts Ag Precision Roundtable
Brownfield’s Kellan Heavican will be in Norfolk on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 as Nebraska Senator Fischer hosts Ag Precision Roundtable at Northeast Community College. …
Additional Specialty Crop Block Grant funding announced
More than $1 million in federal Specialty Crop Block Grants have been awarded to support Michigan projects. Senator Debbie Stabenow says the additional support will help producers keep their competitive edge as they continue to [Read More…]
NCGA president wants more robust farm bill
The president of the National Corn Growers Association wants to see a more robust farm bill. Tom Haag, who farms in central Minnesota, suggests the baseline needs to be bigger to fund the many important [Read More…]
Harvest nears finish line in southwest Iowa
A southwest Iowa farmer says his 2022 harvest is winding down. Duane Aistrope says yields have been a mixed bag. “In the same field on corn it will go from 150 to 220,” he said. [Read More…]
Pork, soybean export sales down sharply on week
U.S. pork and soybean export sales dropped during the week ending October 20th. The USDA says pork sales were about half of the previous week’s total and while there was solid demand from Mexico and [Read More…]
What demands should you make to your seed company?
Not all data is created equally and not all data is shared with the farmers’ best interest in mind. In this episode, CROPLAN seed product manager Robert Cossar explains what questions farmers need to ask [Read More…]
USDA announces third round of 2022 ReConnect broadband funding
Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says the USDA is providing additional funding for rural high-speed broadband projects. He says, “We’re here to announce a 759 million dollar investment in 49 awards in 29 states across the [Read More…]