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Brownfield’s Amie Simpson will be on the ground for Farmers for Free Trade and Americans for Free Trade Town Hall on Thursday, October 4 in Indianapolis, IN. Continue reading Farmers for Free Trade and Americans [Read More…]

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Mark Dorenkamp will be on the ground for the NCBA Cattle Industry Convention Jan. 30 – Feb. 1, 2010 in New Orleans, LA. Continue reading NCBA Cattle Industry Convention at Brownfield Ag News. [Read More…]

  Six weeks ago, the much anticipated merger of Monsanto into Bayer Crop Science began. “What I’m most excited about is simply the potential of this company.” Bayer Crop Science President Liam Condon told Brownfield [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, late-season warmth in the Ohio and middle Mississippi Valleys is promoting corn and soybean maturation and harvesting. In contrast, cool, recently rainy weather is affecting portions of the northern Corn Belt, [Read More…]

The President of the National Corn Growers Association says that the new U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement will help provide certainty to farmers after months of NAFTA renegotiations. Lynn Chrisp says the agreement preserves two critical [Read More…]

Wisconsin farmer Michael Omernick discusses his experiments with planting, row spacing, and fertilizing his first 37 acres of industrial hemp. Continue reading Growing hemp requires some trial and error at Brownfield Ag News.      

   Remnant moisture from rapidly weakening Tropical Storm Rosa, centered near northern Baja California, will continue to stream across the southwestern U.S. Storm-total rainfall could reach 2 to 4 inches or more in Arizona and [Read More…]

A dairy cooperative leader is encouraged by the new United States Mexico Canada Agreement on trade. Tim Trotter is the Executive Director for EDGE Dairy Cooperative.  He says, “I think a lot of farmers are [Read More…]

The Minnesota harvest remains ahead of normal despite continued weather challenges. In its latest crop progress report the USDA says 27 percent of soybeans have been harvested, 10 days faster than last year and one [Read More…]

The USDA says wet conditions slowed harvest for growers in southern Indiana this week. Farmers in the northern part of the state harvested with fewer delays. Growers continue to harvest corn, soybeans, popcorn, processing vegetables, [Read More…]

The USDA says soybean harvest slowed in Ohio last week because of wet conditions, but corn harvest continued ahead of the five-year average. Rainfall also slowed winter wheat planting. According to the latest USDA Crop [Read More…]

R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard says the new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement ignores the interests of America’s independent cattle farmers and ranchers. Bullard tells Brownfield the agreement will not allow the U.S. to reinstate country-of-origin labeling and [Read More…]

Kansas State University has been researching African Swine Fever for years, including a vaccine for the deadly pig disease. Dr. Stephen Higgs, leader of K-State’s Biosecurity Research Institute, tells Brownfield the U.S. is very fortunate ASF [Read More…]

The Minnesota Corn Growers Association is making it easier for fuel consumers to locate E15 and higher blends of ethanol. MCGA president Kirby Hettver of DeGraff says the website www.MNFuels.com benefits corn farmers too. “It’s [Read More…]

The USDA reports corn export inspections as of the week ending September 27th remain ahead of what’s needed to meet projections for the 2018/19 marketing year. Wheat came out at 369,270 tons, down 58,944 from [Read More…]

For some farmers, actively managing crop residue can help to improve yields for the next growing season. Fall tillage can help farmers better incorporate their fertilizers. For others, their goal is to alleviate compaction that [Read More…]

Iowa State University Extension farm management specialist Steve Johnson says with many producers facing cash flow challenges this fall, the Market Facilitation Program payments from the federal government could be a great source of revenue [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, cool weather is slowing evaporation rates, delaying a return to full-scale harvest operations despite unusually early corn and soybean maturation. In fact, lowland flooding persists in parts of the upper Midwest, [Read More…]

A Minnesota farmer says he’s harvesting downed corn that’s yielding well over 200 bushels per-acre. Several tornadoes and damaging winds stormed through southeast Minnesota last week, flattening buildings and crops. Kurt Schrader of Nerstrand tells [Read More…]

Palmer Amaranth has been found in a fifth Minnesota County. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture scouted a field in Redwood County, located in the southwestern part of the state, and found four plants in a [Read More…]