Ag News

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Ken Anderson will be on the ground in Lincoln December 4 for the Nebraska Power Farming Show.     Continue reading Nebraska Power Farming Show at Brownfield Ag News.      

Wisconsin has lost six-hundred dairy farms in the past twelve months, including 584 since January first. University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability Director Mark Stephenson says we continue to see more efficient larger dairy [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Mark Dorenkamp will be on the ground in Des Moines for the Iowa Farm Bureau meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 4th.   Continue reading Iowa Farm Bureau meeting at Brownfield Ag News.      

Brownfield’s Mark Dorenkamp will be on teh ground for the KASM Focus on Farming Forum Tuesday, Dec. 18th in Albany, MN. Continue reading KASM Focus on Farming Forum at Brownfield Ag News.      

Joe Prusacki from USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service tells Brownfield about their upcoming producer surveys and why they are important. Continue reading Farmers benefit from USDA producer surveys at Brownfield Ag News.      

The trade dispute between the U.S. and China has resulted in a market downturn that has U.S. Soybean Export Council marketing director Paul Burke looking for additional places to invest development money. To learn more, [Read More…]

Indiana poultry producers are doing their part to feed Hoosiers in need ahead of the holiday season. Indiana State Poultry Association Executive Vice President Paul Brennan says poultry producers donated 75 tons of poultry products [Read More…]

Momentum is building for the 2018 Farm Bill. National Farmers Union president Roger Johnson says the four principle negotiators seem to be getting close to a deal. And speaking to Brownfield at the Minnesota Farmers [Read More…]

The USDA says corn export inspections as of the week ending November 15th remain ahead of projections for the 2018/19 marketing year. Wheat came out at 509,118 tons, up 163,377 from the week ending November [Read More…]

USDA and FDA have announced they will work together to regulate cell-cultured meat. In a joint statement, Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue and FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb say FDA will oversee the cell collection, cell banks [Read More…]

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Amie Simpson will be on the ground for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Ag Conference in Chicago, IL on Tuesday, November 27. Continue reading Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Ag Conference at [Read More…]

Wet growing conditions and the long and drawn out harvest in several parts of the Corn Belt has created an environment where ear molds can flourish. In this Managing for Profit, Beck’s agronomist Steve Gauck [Read More…]

Frank Chen, a journalist with the Asia Times, was one of 12 international journalists who participated in last week’s Canada Ag Innovations Tour. Chen is a native of China who now lives in Hong Kong. In an interview with Brownfield, Chen [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, snow remains on the ground—following Thursday’s storm—from the middle Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley and the lower Great Lakes region, further delaying late-season soft red winter wheat planting efforts. Meanwhile [Read More…]

When it comes to the U.S. corn industry – corn leaders say it’s about this, “Our #1, #2 and #3 goals are demand, demand and demand,” says Jon Doggett, National Corn Growers’ Chief Executive Officer, [Read More…]

Should Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) be elected Speaker of the House again?  I’ve been asked this question a dozen times in the last few days, with the question almost always followed by the asker’s [Read More…]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada and China are in talks to deepen bilateral trade and work toward an “eventual” free trade agreement. Trudeau spoke with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the third annual [Read More…]

China’s largest pork producing province has officially reported its first outbreak of African Swine Fever.  Ten of 16 pigs diagnosed with the virus died at a farm in the Sichuan province. To date, 18 of [Read More…]

The USDA Under Secretary for Trade says the Philippines and Thailand present similar opportunities for U.S. ag exports. “Each country is seeing a pretty rapidly growing disposable income.  Their gross domestic product is rising in [Read More…]

The USDA says corn and soybean export sales for the week ending November 8th were within pre-report expectations, while wheat sales were below analysts’ estimates. Physical shipments of corn remain ahead of what’s needed weekly [Read More…]