Ag News

The head of Rural Community Insurance Services says technology will play an important role in crop insurance. Speaking to Brownfield during Trade Talk at the 2018 NAFB Convention in Kansas City, Mike Day said precision [Read More…]

Soil health is getting more and more attention in the ag industry, but Todd Martin with the Independent Professional Seed Association wonders if it’s becoming a buzz word. “Everybody’s talking about it,” he says. “It’s [Read More…]

   A Santa Ana wind event will persist during the next few days in parts of California, maintaining an elevated wildfire threat. Warmth will accompany California’s offshore winds, but much of the remainder of the [Read More…]

Southeast Nebraska farmer Don Bloss says his corn, soybean and grain sorghum yields this fall were above-average, despite a wide variation in rainfall throughout the growing season. Bloss says conditions were dry through most of [Read More…]

The USDA says wheat export sales for the week ending November 1st topped most pre-report estimates, the third week in a row with generally larger than expected sales. Physical shipments of corn remain ahead of [Read More…]

The USDA recently released some crop and livestock projections for next year, which the department traditionally does this time of year as part of the federal budgeting process. Included in the statistical guesses are acreage [Read More…]

Alternative crops add diversity to cropping systems and help farmers improve soil health AND their bottom line. Dr. Rob Myers is the regional director of extension programs with the University of Missouri. “As farmers are [Read More…]

The 2018 National Wheat Association/ U.S. Wheat Associates Scholarship was awarded to Matthew Winterholler, a senior agricultural communications major at Texas Tech University, during the National Association of Farm Broadcasting Convention. Winterholler first graduated from [Read More…]

Class III milk futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange again continued lower Wednesday following the elections and lower cash trade. November closed six cents lower at $14.46.  December down 17 cents at $14.66.  January 12 [Read More…]

Commentary. Can you believe it will be six years ago in February that a Ram Trucks advertisement that ran during the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl brought everyone in agriculture together for 2 whole [Read More…]

An advocate for industrial hemp says farmers in several states are recognizing its value as an alternative crop. “We’re really on the cusp of building an industry.” Michael Bowman with the National Hemp Association says [Read More…]

A cooperative leader says reaction to this week elections has been factoring into dairy markets. “The probability of Congress flipping was out there, I think a lot of farmers were not surprised.  We’re anxious to [Read More…]

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures were mostly modestly lower, getting ready for the week’s widespread direct cash cattle business. Additional pressure came from the lower midday boxed beef, and, with another week of no [Read More…]

President Trump says Democrats taking the House of Representatives might actually help him reach some of his objectives.  “We have a lot of things in common on infrastructure.  We want to do something on health [Read More…]

U.S. ethanol production and stocks both climbed last week. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.068 million barrels a day, up 9,000 on the week, and the highest weekly average since late August. [Read More…]

Joe Beland is the regional sales and service manager for the Eastern Corn Belt for RCIS, a leading provider of agricultural insurance.  In this interview with Brownfield, Beland explains how private coverage products can help farmers [Read More…]

An economist says many farmers might see crop insurance payments affected by falling commodity prices this year. American Farm Bureau Economist John Newton says for the sixth straight year, the harvest price for corn was [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, cold, dry, breezy weather prevails, aside from snow showers near the Great Lakes. However, wet fields continue to hamper harvest activities in some areas; the nation’s soybean harvest, 83% complete by [Read More…]

The National Milk Producers Federation says consumers are confused about nutrition of dairy milk compared to plant based milks. Alan Bjerga says a survey commissioned by Dairy Management, Incorporated found nearly two-thirds of consumers believe almond-based [Read More…]

A central Missouri farmer who runs a diversified farm with her sons says she has learned not to go big with her poultry egg operation. Tina Wibberg, who farmers east of Jefferson City, near Taos, attended [Read More…]