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Ohio experienced a break in the heat last week and most of the state received much needed rains.  According to the latest Crop Progress and Conditions report from the USDA, corn is rated 66 percent good [Read More…]

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A dairy farmer cooperative would like to have a requirement for timely milk payments inserted into the farm bill. Tim Trotter with Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative tells Brownfield under the Federal Milk Marketing Orders, processors [Read More…]

A member of the U.S. House Ag Committee says there’s no timeline set for further farm bill action. Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin tells Brownfield Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson will need every Republican vote he [Read More…]

Ag lobbyist Randy Russell says not much progress has been made on the new farm bill in the U.S. House or Senate. “The leadership ultimately has to get into a room and each give a [Read More…]

USDA has announced a Request for Information as the agency considers Climate Smart ag practices for biofuel feedstocks. Kurt Kovarik with Clean Fuels Alliance America says input will be gathered over the next 30 days [Read More…]

A market analyst says USDA’s acreage report likely didn’t include all the acreage changes that happened due to the wet planting season and now, the markets are focused on corn and soybean yields. Don Roose [Read More…]

The USDA has lowered their hay harvested area estimate from the March guess. 51.531 million acres of all types of hay are expected to be harvested in 2024, 31,000 less than in the March projection [Read More…]

The USDA says sorghum acreage declined in 2024. Planted area was pegged at 6.405 million acres, a dip of 11% from 2023, following decreases for top producers Kansas and Texas, as sorghum loses ground to [Read More…]

Wisconsin’s ag department is asking dairy producers to share information about their operations in a new survey. Dan Bauer with the Department of Ag, Trade, and Consumer Protection’s Farm Center tells Brownfield a lot has [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, upper Midwestern floodwaters continue to slowly drain from tributaries into larger rivers.  Most of the remaining flooding is focused across southeastern South Dakota, northwestern Iowa, and southern Minnesota.  Some additional heavy [Read More…]

Portable augers are workhorses when it comes to transferring grain and farmers rely on them year-round. In this Managing for Profit, Paul Brisebois, AGI senior vice president says now is the time to do a [Read More…]

A Purdue doctoral student says one of the biggest problems farmers face is post-emergence herbicide injury in soybeans. Marcelo Zimmer says bringing new options to growers is crucial. “If we can use targeted applications and [Read More…]

There have been a lot of stories about the size of the U.S. cattle herd.  Some headlines that you might have heard:  “The cattle herd is shrinking” or “It’s the smallest the cattle herd on [Read More…]

A livestock economist says overall pork supplies continue to grow despite a decline in breeding inventory. University of Missouri’s Scott Brown productivity continues to improve. “If you look at March through May, pigs per litter, [Read More…]