Ag News

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures along and east of a line from Texas to Minnesota, except for cooler-than-normal conditions along the middle Atlantic Coast.  Cool weather [Read More…]

Iowa’s first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in more than a week is in a non-commercial backyard flock in northeast Iowa. The Iowa Department of Agriculture says the virus was found in Bremer County [Read More…]

A recent analysis suggests the USDA’s selection process was flawed when it relocated two of its research agencies to Kansas City in 2019. The Government Accountability Office says the USDA’s decision to move the Economic [Read More…]

A lack of sun and warmth is stunting alfalfa development in at least one Midwestern state. University of Minnesota Extension crops educator Dave Nicolai says it’s been an abnormally cool spring. “Really cold temperatures have [Read More…]

A cold, wet spring has farmers like Rob Tate checking the forecast several times a day. The southeast Minnesota corn and soybean grower tells Brownfield despite unseasonably cool conditions he was able to work some [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle closed higher on follow-through buying and the lower move in corn, waiting for direct cash business to develop.  June live cattle closed $.12 higher at $135.32 [Read More…]

The Missouri Pork Association and Missouri Corn Growers Association are working together to increase opportunities for corn-fed pork in the state. MPA Executive Director Don Nikodim tells Brownfield they’ve added several sow operations in Missouri [Read More…]

Supply chain disruptions and inflation are challenging food relief efforts.   Vince Hall, chief government relations officer with Feeding America, discusses some of the barriers facing food banks. Healthy Living: Click here for more information. [Read More…]

Higher interest rates are seen in USDA’s latest Farm Service Agency loans. For May 2022, the interest rate for direct farm operating loans has gone from 1.75 percent a year ago to 2.875.  The direct [Read More…]

A central Iowa farmer says steady rains have eliminated drought concerns for now. Lee Tesdell tells Brownfield, “I would say our subsoil moisture is completely replenished now.” Tesdell farms in northern Polk County. He says [Read More…]

An ag economist expects net farm incomes to tighten if the Federal Reserve opts to raise the interest rate this week. Ernie Goss with Creighton University tells Brownfield cost of production is high from skyrocketing [Read More…]

Mother Nature has brought much needed relief from severe drought for producers in a Western Corn Belt state. Central Nebraska farmer Clay Govier says 4 inches of rain have fallen since Saturday and that’s been [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, a widespread rain event—stretching from Iowa into the Ohio Valley and lower Great Lakes region—is bringing renewed planting delays.  Although dry weather has returned across the far upper Midwest, many fields [Read More…]

During the next few days, back-to-back storm systems will cross the nation from west to east.  The initial storm, currently centered over the middle Mississippi Valley, will reach the Northeast by mid-week.  The trailing system [Read More…]

Diesel fuel can be added to the list of input costs reaching record-highs for farmers. GasBuddy’s Patrick De Haan tells Brownfield the national average reached $5.32 per gallon Monday. “The average price in Iowa has [Read More…]

In this episode of Missouri Corn Talk Don Nikodim, Executive Director of the Missouri Pork Association, highlights their partnership with Missouri Corn including their efforts to support legislation impacting both corn and pork producers as [Read More…]

Understanding the biggest issues for Ohio soybean farmers is crucial to agriculture’s success in the future. In this Voice of Soy, Kirk Merritt, executive director for the Ohio Soybean Council talks about how checkoff dollars [Read More…]

Iowa Corn Growers vice president Denny Friest of Radcliffe says the Association continues to fight on behalf of farmers as fertilizer prices escalate.  He tells Brownfield they’ve written the International Trade Commission about foreign tariffs [Read More…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures throughout the central and eastern U.S., except along the middle and northern Atlantic Coast.  Cooler-than-normal conditions will prevail in [Read More…]

An eastern Wisconsin farmer continues to fine-tune his cover cropping plan.  Dan Brick from Brickstead Dairy Farm near Greenleaf tells Brownfield he began cover cropping after visiting farmers in Pennsylvania about six years ago who [Read More…]