Ag News

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures were higher, supported by optimism about a proposed trade deal with Japan, potential progress with China, and the firm to higher midday boxed beef. August was up $.85 at [Read More…]

President Trump says the trade agreement in principle with Japan will be tremendous for farmers and include corn purchases. “We have excess corn in various parts of our country  with our farmers because China did [Read More…]

An organic fruit grower in southeast Minnesota calls the 2019 growing season very good. Jim Riddle and his wife Joyce Ford operate Blue Fruit Farm, a certified organic blueberry, aronia berry, black currant, and plum [Read More…]

Soybeans were higher on fund and technical buying. After last week’s tariff talk, President Trump says this week that China wants to negotiate. China’s Foreign Ministry denied any discussions with the U.S. took place over [Read More…]

Commodity groups are celebrating this weekend’s trade agreement in principle with Japan. The bi-lateral proposed deal will offset the competitive disadvantage U.S. wheat producers have with Australia and Canada, according to Josh Tonsager, vice president [Read More…]

The USDA says poultry production during July was up 5% on the year at 4.395 billion pounds. Most of that was chicken, up 5% on the year at 3.893 billion, with a 1% increase in [Read More…]

Indiana Farm Bureau has set policy recommendations that will guide the organization during the next year. Indiana Farm Bureau President Randy Kron says it’s an important process to understand top issues for farmers across the [Read More…]

The president and CEO of the US Meat Export Federation says the news that the US and Japan have reached a trade agreement in principle is huge news for the US beef and pork industries. [Read More…]

As the soybeans get closer to harvesting, some of next year’s weeds are developing seeds. Weed scientist Dr. Rodrigo Werle with the University of Wisconsin talks about taking action now to save your 2020 yields [Read More…]

The US and Japan have reportedly reached a deal in principle. There are reports that a draft agreement could be signed by the end of September. Ag goods and autos were the focus of trade [Read More…]

Syngenta’s new $30-million Trait Conversion Accelerator will help bring corn traits to market quicker.  David Hollinrake, regional director for Syngenta Seeds North America, says the facility will shorten the product development life cycle.  “We can [Read More…]

President Trump is raising the existing tariffs on China.  Trump said in a tweet Friday afternoon China should not have announced a counter-tariff on 75-billion dollars’ worth of U.S. products, which he called “politically motivated.”  [Read More…]

The Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee says the current trade problem with China could have been resolved prior to China’s WTO membership. Reacting to China’s additional tariffs on U.S. goods, Democrat Collin Peterson of [Read More…]

The first-vice-president of the National Corn Growers Association says they appreciate the way the USDA calculated trade damage payments in this second round of the Market Facilitation Program (MFP). Kevin Ross tells Brownfield Ag News, [Read More…]

A market analyst says the China trade war is the main, overshadowing factor for the bearish commodity market because of how China is targeting agriculture, “The commodities do not have, at this point, from the [Read More…]

Great Lakes livestock producers are wondering what wolf management might look like IF gray wolves are de-listed from the Endangered Species List. North-central Minnesota cattle rancher Miles Kuschel says because wolves are protected, the most [Read More…]

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures were modestly to sharply lower on the lower midday boxed beef and unconfirmed reports of a higher Chinese tariff on U.S. beef. The USDA’s Cattle on Feed report looks [Read More…]

The vice president of Minnesota Farmers Union is seeing heartbreak across rural America as farmers struggle to stay in business. Bryan Klabunde says he encountered a woman at a recent farm show in southwest Minnesota [Read More…]

Nebraska farmers were looking forward to Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue’s appearance at a town hall event at the Nebraska State Fair on Friday. However his visit was cancelled at the last minute, apparently because of weather-related [Read More…]

Spring planting delays voided any summer break for one central Iowa farm family. Corey Hillebo of Polk City says their workload has been spread out all summer long. “We were busy all summer. Dad missed [Read More…]