Ag News

Michigan Farm Bureau’s most popular promotion and educational outreach tool throughout the pandemic will continue into 2022. Julie Stephenson, chair of the state promotion and education committee, tells Brownfield FARM crates are a subscription box [Read More…]

A prominent Midwestern weed scientist is hearing about a possible label change for dicamba. The University of Missouri’s Dr. Kevin Bradley says he has no idea what changes would be but he’s hearing it could [Read More…]

The Swine Health Information Center is monitoring for the reemergence of a Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus that spread through the upper-Midwest last fall. SHIC director, Dr. Paul Sundberg, tells Brownfield unlike most strains, [Read More…]

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Amie Simpson will cover the National Biodiesel Conference & Expo to be held January 17-20, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. …     

A Kansas State University researcher is developing tools to help U.S. pig farmers in the fight against African Swine Fever.  Megan Niederwerder says she’s researching how ASF would survive and transmit after it’s been detected [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were lower, and feeders were mixed watching corn and waiting for direct business to develop.  December live cattle closed $1.05 lower at $135.87 and February live cattle closed [Read More…]

Missouri Governor Mike Parson’s trade mission to Israel and Greece has been postponed because of Covid related travel restrictions. Parson said he wants to respect the countries’ travel polices and postponing is the best action [Read More…]

Corn harvest in South Dakota reached 96% complete as of Sunday. Last year it was 100% harvested. Sorghum harvest, at 95% and Sunflower harvest, at 92% are behind last year. Winter wheat condition is 72% [Read More…]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended the waiver for commercial truckers’ federal Hours of Service regulation to February 28th of next year. The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) thanked the FMCSA, the Biden [Read More…]

The USDA has released their final 2021 crop progress and condition reports and Illinois ended on a good note. As of Sunday, the USDA says 98% of winter wheat planting is complete with 92% of [Read More…]

Missouri harvest and winter wheat planting are cleaning up the margins as November nears its end. Soybean harvest is slightly behind last year at 95 percent complete. Cotton harvest is 97 percent complete. Winter wheat [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mostly lower, and feeders were mixed on spread adjustments, watching corn with the mixed midday boxed beef prices.  December lean hogs closed $.20 higher at $138.10 and [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling, cementing the lower weekly finish. Contracts were down on spillover from the broader market, which was concerned about new, emerging COVID strains. That pushed a lot of [Read More…]

Dec. corn closed at $5.86 and 3/4, up 7 centsJan. soybeans closed at $12.52 and 3/4, down 13 and 3/4 centsDec. soybean meal closed at $356.20, down $1.40Dec. soybean oil closed at 69.02, down 192 [Read More…]

The CEO of CropLife America says while pesticide dealers are seeing higher than average prices and supply chain disruptions, they are doing their best to make sure product is available for the 2022 growing season. [Read More…]

Cattle producers are raising some of the highest quality beef in the industry’s history – and it’s adding value to their product. “None of us are in business to break even every single year.” Kara [Read More…]

Two legislative proposals with two very different solutions have the same goal of fixing the cattle market but a pair of cattle groups disagree which is the best fix. R-CALF CEO Bill Bullard says the [Read More…]

The farmland market is in uncharted territory with record sales. Compeer Financial chief appraiser Mike Morris says with all the risk and opportunity, it’s important to work with a trusted advisor with expectations for continued [Read More…]

Golden Harvest technical agronomy manager Bruce Battles tells Brownfield that in addition to Golden Harvest’s E-Luminate, the company has many useful digital tools that are easily accessible. “They’re actually more accessible than E-Luminate, right there [Read More…]

Enjoy Thanksgiving dinner but don’t let it linger on the table for too long. For all hot and cold foods– you can only safely keep them out up to two hours – after that, harmful [Read More…]