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At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mixed, and feeders were mostly lower ahead of the week’s direct cash business. October live cattle closed $.05 higher at $179.05, and December lives closed $.20 lower [Read More…]

A new processing facility is helping Michigan sugarbeet growers capture additional returns from the same acres. Michigan Sugar Company’s Rob Clark tells Brownfield a Molasses Desugarization Facility at the company’s Bay City site is extracting [Read More…]

A new alliance plans to convert a milk byproduct into ethanol for sustainable aviation fuel. Canadian-based Dairy Distillery CEO Omid McDonald tells Brownfield this isn’t the first time the technology has been used. “In the [Read More…]

According to the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, farmer sentiment improved slightly from last month. Jim Mintert with Purdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture tells Brownfield the rise was surprising. “Given that we saw weakness, [Read More…]

Some cattle producers say they are cautiously optimistic about the continued strength in the markets. Lisa Kubik of Traer tells Brownfield live and feeder cattle futures continue to trade near all-time highs. “Cattle prices the [Read More…]

Cash dairy prices closed mixed Tuesday the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey down $0.0125 at $0.5975. Four sales were made from $0.5975 to $0.6050. Blocks up $0.06 at $1.90. One sale was made at $1.88. [Read More…]

Farmers attending Minnesota Farmfest are wondering if a low is in for the grain markets.  CHS grain originator Patti Uhrich spoke on grain marketing Tuesday morning and took questions from the audience, including a farmer [Read More…]

A federal court in Delaware has ruled Corteva Agriscience can proceed with its lawsuit against Inari Agriculture. According to court records, US District Judge John Murphy denied Inari’s motion to dismiss the case on Monday. [Read More…]

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says the rising number of layoffs in the ag equipment industry shouldn’t come as a surprise. “You can’t expect farmers to buy a lot of new equipment when corn is losing [Read More…]

An ag lobbyist says House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson is expected to find a way to get more Commodity Credit Corporation funding to support changes to a new farm bill and “we all [Read More…]

Soybean farmers and their checkoff are investing in several soy utilization studies for increasing soy rations in livestock diets. On this week’s episode of Seeds of Success, an Iowa Soybean Association director discusses the importance [Read More…]

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Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures from the northern half of the Plains to the middle and northern Atlantic States, while hotter-than-normal weather will prevail across the [Read More…]

University of Wisconsin Plant Pathologist Dr. Damon Smith tells Brownfield their new web-based Corn Fungicide Return on Investment Calculator lets farmers plug in their farm’s data and local prices, and see where the dollars are [Read More…]

The crops in Wisconsin range from good to struggling, depending on the crop and the location.  Raymond Dietrich and his family operate a dairy farm west of Green Bay, where they’ve had a lot of [Read More…]

Being Fairest of the Fair means spending a lot of time promoting and educating fairgoers who often have a lot of questions. Kelsey Henderson from Racine County is Wisconsin’s 2024 Fairest of the Fair, and [Read More…]

Kentucky has had both above-normal temperatures and rainfall recently. The state’s corn crop condition improved slightly this week to 68 percent good to excellent.  Ninety percent of the crop is silking, 48 percent is in [Read More…]

Recent rains have helped Nebraska crop conditions. Doug Saathoff, who farms in the south-central part of the state, tells Brownfield… “We’re looking really good,” he says. “Of course we had quite a bit of rain [Read More…]

Crop development continues to lag in Minnesota despite a week of hot temperatures. USDA’s latest crop update says corn silking is 81 percent, eight days behind last year and five days off the five-year average.  [Read More…]

Wisconsin’s warm and mostly dry week allowed for small grain harvesting and good row crop development.  USDA reporters say only six percent of the state’s topsoil and three percent of the subsoil is short of [Read More…]