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The executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, Monte Shaw, shares his thoughts on the anticipated announcement of a year-round E15 waiver by President Trump. AUDIO: Monte Shaw Continue reading IRFA’s Monte Shaw discusses [Read More…]

What is more effective – fall or spring burndown? An agronomist says there are benefits to both. It just depends on the goal. In this Managing for Profit, Beck’s Hybrids agronomist Joe Bolte compares the [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, warmth lingers across southernmost corn and soybean production areas, including the lower Ohio Valley. Cool air covers the remainder of the Corn Belt, while widespread showers are halting harvest activities in [Read More…]

A pair of slow-moving storms will help to focus heavy rainfall across the nation’s mid-section during the next several days. Starting late Friday, showers and thunderstorms will become more concentrated in a line from the [Read More…]

A survey of consumers by GMO Answers finds a continued lack of understanding about GMO foods, “As a registered dietitian, I think the thing that struck me…. unfortunately, I have to say I wasn’t surprised [Read More…]

More soybean demand might be coming from Cambodian fish farms. World Initiative for Soy in Human Health executive director Jim Hershey tells Brownfield a USDA grant will help Cambodian fish farmers expand ponds, becoming more [Read More…]

A professor and consultant from Mexico continues to bring dairy farmers to see new technology and the best cows at World Dairy Expo. Dr. Fernando Hidalgo tells Brownfield he started bringing farmers to the Wisconsin-based [Read More…]

Class III milk futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange closed mixed Friday as cash prices were lower but U.S. export volumes improve. October closed a penny lower at $15.81.  November four cents higher at $16.05.  [Read More…]

The main architect of the new Dairy Revenue Protection insurance tool says farmers and agents are excited to have the new risk management tool.  American Farm Bureau Chief Economist John Newton tells Brownfield, “A lot of [Read More…]

The U.S. Ag Secretary is ready to go after other trade deals now that an agreement has been made with Canada and Mexico. Sonny Perdue says the United States Mexico Canada agreement ended better than [Read More…]

Say what you will about President Trump and his negotiating style – “threaten-loudly-and-often-and-swing-a-big-stick”— the man and his team pulled it off.  It took well over a year, but Trump can chalk up another campaign promise [Read More…]

The CEO of the US Meat Export Federation says getting a new NAFTA deal has been their top priority.  Dan Halstrom tells Brownfield the announcement of the USMCA this week is huge news for the US [Read More…]

A Minnesota farmer is seeing yields close to what he anticipated as harvest picks up. Brian Thalmann grows corn and soybeans southwest of the Twin Cities near the town of Plato. He tells Brownfield his [Read More…]

A grain handling manufacturer is reminding soybean farmers of important storage considerations. Steve Sukup is CFO of Iowa-based Sukup Manufacturing. “You want to make sure you have a good aeration system, especially having a full [Read More…]

A U.S. Senator from Minnesota is calling on President Trump to make his presence felt during Farm Bill negotiations. Democrat Tina Smith tells Brownfield she recently wrote the President about actions he could take to [Read More…]

A veterinarian from the Netherlands says their dairy farmers have many of the same challenges found elsewhere but on a different scale.  Dr. Gitty Oosterga is attending World Dairy Expo as a coordinator for the Master [Read More…]

Bedford, Iowa, auctioneer Russell Sleep is the Champion at the 2019 World Livestock Auctioneer Championship (WLAC) Midwestern Regional Qualifying Event. Holdenville Livestock Market in Holdenville, Oklahoma hosted the first of three WLAC qualifying events on [Read More…]

Class III Milk Futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange had a fairly quiet day.  October milk closed a penny higher at $15.82.  November down three cents at $16.01.  The December contract was unchanged at $15.98.  [Read More…]

Farm safety specialists are encouraging dairies to create a safe workplace culture on the farm. Mary Bauer works for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigating farm compliance and providing resources for farms to create [Read More…]

The USDA reports soybean export sales for the week ending September 27th were above pre-report expectations, while corn and wheat fell within most analysts’ estimates. Physical shipments of corn continue to trend ahead of the [Read More…]