Ag News

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…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for above-normal rainfall across the Four Corners and from the Northwest eastward across the Plains, Midwest, and New England.  Conversely, drier-than-normal weather is expected over the Southeastern [Read More…]

An analyst is concerned about the future of the nitrogen fertilizer market. Josh Linville from StoneX tells Brownfield he’s watching four areas that will greatly influence the price and availability of nitrogen, starting with Europe. [Read More…]

Recent independent studies support a greater reliance on biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Scott Richman with the Renewable Fuels Association says one study looked at the impact of electric vehicles on both liquid fuel [Read More…]

Global wheat supplies are expected to tighten because of Russian production challenges. CoBank grains and oilseeds economist Tanner Ehmke says weather problems are going to limit the size of this year’s crop. “The estimates on [Read More…]

An agronomist in northwest Missouri says tar spot has been confirmed this week. Erin Marlow with Cropwise Consulting says “we have a visual confirmation.” Marlow says the disease has been sparse so far; she expects [Read More…]

The director of the Quentin Burdick Center for Cooperatives says there are questions about China’s largest food and ag company becoming the sole owner of a grain facility along the Mississippi River. Frayne Olson tells [Read More…]

Jul. corn closed at $4.13 and 3/4, down 6 and 1/4 centsJul. soybeans closed at $11.52 and 1/4, down 10 and 1/2 centsJul. soybean meal closed at $361.10, up 20 centsJul. soybean oil closed at [Read More…]

More cases of H5N1 in dairy cattle have been reported in Iowa. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship says the disease was recently detected in two dairy herds in Sioux (like sue) County. [Read More…]

Nutrien Ag Solutions has announced a new biocontrol tool for integrated pest management. Francisco Manzano with Loveland Products, the proprietary company for Nutrien, says the company’s photosensitizer formulations can be used in the global ag [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. The trade was getting ready for Friday’s USDA planted acreage and quarterly stocks numbers. Ahead of the report, analysts expect soybean acres to 86.86 million acres, with [Read More…]