Ag News

U.S. Congresswoman Ashley Hinson says she’s concerned about the widening ag trade deficit. “When you talk about $32 billion as a deficit, that’s the wrong way,” she said. “We should be in the plus, the [Read More…]

National crop condition ratings are higher compared to the past several years, but southwest Minnesota farmer Bryan Biegler tells Brownfield that’s not the case on his farm. “We have a lot more unevenness out in [Read More…]

Recent Chinese demand is helping improve the outlook for soybean prices. Iowa State University Extension economist Chad Hart says China remains the number one export market for U.S. soybeans. “Seeing them being more active now [Read More…]

Cash dairy prices were steady to higher except for butter Thursday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  Dry whey was unchanged at $0.48.  No sales were recorded.  Forty-pound cheese blocks were up $0.0450 at $1.9825.   Four sales [Read More…]

Northwest Iowa farmer Jolene Riessen says wet conditions impacted soybean emergence. “Corn came up really well. Beans, we fought some crust. And I like to shoot for 150,000 seeds out there, so doing stand counts [Read More…]

Some soybean pests are thriving in wet conditions. Justine Terwillegar with Syngenta Crop Protection says one example is Japanese beetle. “We often see more issues when it’s wet in the spring, and then maybe we [Read More…]

Brownfield’s meteorologist says farmers should prepare for El Nino to shift to La Nina sooner rather than later.  Greg Soulje tells Brownfield he expects the shift to cause drought conditions to intensify throughout the summer. “As [Read More…]

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a third Iowa dairy herd. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship says the case involves a farm in Sioux County in the northwest part of [Read More…]

A House Appropriations subcommittee is proposing more cuts to the USDA’s budget. During Tuesday’s markup of the 2025 budget, Ranking Member Sanford Bishop stressed the need to better fund the Economic Research Service and National [Read More…]

Kansas farmer Craig Meeker says timely rains have made all the difference for his operation. “We are in really good condition today here in South Central Kansas,” he says.  “Harvesting probably one of my top [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. The lone change for carryout projections was that new crop U.S. ending stocks were up on the month following a reduction in the old crop crush. That [Read More…]

The USDA raised the new crop ending stocks projection for soybeans, while lowering wheat and leaving corn unchanged. The 10 million bushel month-to-month rise for the 2024/25 soybean carryout to 455 million bushels followed a [Read More…]

Tar spot has been confirmed in Indiana and an extension pathologist says this is the earliest it’s ever been confirmed. Darcy Telenko (Tell-ink-o) with Purdue University says it was found in plots in northern Indiana. [Read More…]

Lawrence Sukalski, a director on the United Soybean Board and the Infrastructure & Connectivity Priority Area Coordinator, says there are many ways a whole soybean can be used. In this Checkoff Chat, Sukalski also talks [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, dry weather prevails, aside from a few upper Midwestern showers.  The spell of mostly dry weather favors winter wheat maturation and final summer crop planting efforts.  By June 9, only 5% [Read More…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for near- or above-normal temperatures and rainfall across most of the country.  The eastern Corn Belt has the greatest likelihood of experiencing above-normal temperatures, while cooler-than-normal conditions [Read More…]

FFA students from all over Wisconsin are working together to help others.  It’s FFA’s Day of Service, and hundreds of FFA members were at one of eleven sites around Madison helping others.  Amelia Hayden was [Read More…]

Illinois corn farmers are taking the message of corn to lawmakers in Washington, D.C. In this Managing for Profit, Lindsay Mitchell-Croke, director of communications and marketing at the Illinois Corn Marketing Board, discusses the impact [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, seasonally cool, dry weather accompanies some lingering cloudiness far east and a few showers in the upper Mississippi Valley.  Despite below-normal temperatures, producers are taking advantage of the dry weather to [Read More…]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures nationwide, except for cooler-than-normal conditions across the northern High Plains and the Northwest.  Meanwhile, wetter-than-normal weather from coastal Texas to the [Read More…]