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At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were sharply lower on technical weakness, waiting on direct business to develop. June live cattle closed $2.37 lower at $213.95 and August live cattle closed $2.25 [Read More…]

The president of the American Soybean Association says the on-going trade dispute with China could have severe impacts on the industry. Testifying before the US Senate Finance Committee Wednesday morning, Kentucky farmer Caleb Ragland said [Read More…]

A central Illinois farmer says he’s optimistic that 2025 can still be a profitable growing season. John Klemm, who grows corn and soybeans in DeWitt County, says there’s a lot of time left in the [Read More…]

A US Senator from Kansas says he’s cautiously optimistic that recent trade agreements in principle could expand market access for ag producers. Roger Marshall tells Brownfield the deal with the UK could help lay the [Read More…]

A commodities broker based in northwest Iowa says there’s not a lot of old crop corn in storage. Shane Holtorf with Logic Ag Marketing tells Brownfield there’s been strong demand regionally with several ethanol plants [Read More…]

A recent Market Intel Report shows that off-farm income is helping keep U.S. farming operations afloat. In this episode of Managing for Profit, economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation Danny Munch says 98% of [Read More…]

Pictured: Former U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack (center, speaking at podium) outlines the importance of the World Food Prize during a laureate ceremony in Des Moines on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Photo by Brent Barnett/Brownfield) [Read More…]

A livestock producer in central Missouri says the cool, dry conditions in early spring hurt the grass growth in central Missouri. David Dick from Pettis County tells Brownfield… “there’s orchard grass that’s headed out that’s [Read More…]

An extension ag economist says updates to federal biofuels policy could be bullish for U.S. soybean prices. Ben Brown with the University of Missouri says Congress is considering updates and an extension to the 45z [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Brent Barnett covers the 2025 Corteva Summer Media Day The post 2025 Corteva Summer Media Day appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.     

Conservation leaders stressed the importance of technical assistance and local staff to support farmers at Tuesday’s Senate Ag Committee hearing. South Dakota farmer and past Farm Service Agency Branch Chief Lynn Tjeerdsma has been dedicated [Read More…]

Christopher S. “Kit” Bond died in St. Louis, Missouri on Tuesday. He was 86 years old. Missouri Farm Bureau President Garrett Hawkins says the Republican lawmaker was a state treasure who took on some of [Read More…]

The president of the Southern Illinois University Collegiate Farm Bureau says the organization has changed his life. Chase Howell, from Peoria County, tells Brownfield, “The Farm Bureau group for me was the group that was [Read More…]

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins has named Erin Morris as the next administrator of the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service.  Morris has spent more than 25 years advancing the work of AMS, and Ag Secretary Rollins says [Read More…]

Cash dairy prices were mostly lower Tuesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.    Dry whey was down $0.0125 at $0.53.  One sale was recorded at that price.  Forty-pound cheese blocks were unchanged at $1.78.  No sales [Read More…]

The hay harvest is off to an early start in Iowa. USDA’s latest weekly crop progress report shows the first cutting of alfalfa at six percent, compared to the five-year average of one percent. North [Read More…]

A farmer-director with the Iowa Soybean Association says the industry continues to seek new export opportunities. At-large director Brent Renner, a farmer from Klemme, says China’s interest in U.S. whole beans has leveled off due [Read More…]

The Iowa Senate has passed a bill that would make it harder for companies to use eminent domain for carbon pipelines. State senators voted 27-22 Monday to send the bill to Governor Kim Reynolds’ desk [Read More…]

In this Managing for Profit, learn about how the partnership between the Nebraska Public Power District and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has conducted energy source research that has produced new technologies and strategies benefiting Nebraska [Read More…]

There’s concern moving key pieces of the farm bill into a reconciliation package could negatively impact agriculture. Minnesota Farmers Union vice president Anne Schwagerl joined other members in Washington D.C. last week to urge Congress [Read More…]