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Hurricane Lane should continue to gradually weaken while making its closest approach to the Hawaiian Islands over the remainder of Friday and early Saturday. The primary threats from Lane will be flash flooding, high winds, [Read More…]

When it comes to rife media and talking head speculation that China and the U.S. will continue their tariff wars indefinitely, that NAFTA 2.0 will succumb to an 11th-hour breakdown, that House and Senate conferees [Read More…]

U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says details of the $12 billion-dollar trade relief package will be released Monday. During a trip to upstate New York Thursday, Perdue said the plan to help farmers hurt by [Read More…]

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The Missouri Cattlemen’s Association wants producers to have access to even more CRP lands as the drought continues in Missouri. Mike Deering tells Brownfield the Farm Service Agency’s release of CRP land in certain counties [Read More…]

USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director Amanda De Jong today says 22 Iowa Counties are authorized for emergency haying and grazing use of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres until September 30th, the end [Read More…]

Scouting crops is one of the most effective ways farmers can manage and control problems in the field. And while nothing will replace the accuracy of walking each field, Cassie Misch with Encirca Services by [Read More…]

The CEO of Bayer AG, which now includes Monsanto, says they will continue to defend glyphosate herbicide. Werner Baumann says they believe the California jury verdict, that glyphosate use was the cause of a former [Read More…]

A common myth surrounding GMOs is that the technology is so new that it’s not safe. But a consultant with the Center for Food Integrity says that simply isn’t true. Continue reading GMO foods are [Read More…]

A mid-year farm real estate survey indicates southern Illinois farmland values are down 3.53 percent, “which isn’t a big surprise,” said Aaron Johnson, the chief operating officer at Farm Credit Illinois. Lesser quality farmland saw [Read More…]

The head of R-CALF USA says Trump administration trade policy is on the right track.  Instead of trade discussion only being about exports, it’s now about balanced trade, according to Bill Bullard. “We’re calculating the [Read More…]

A southwest Missouri grass-fed cattle operator says the drought has not been a problem for him. Adam Boman rotated his 22 cattle between 13 paddocks every day, starting in the spring, then switched to every-other-day in [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on commercial and technical selling, closing at or just above the session lows. Crop weather through the end of the month is expected to be generally non-threatening in most of the Midwest [Read More…]

A dairy marking specialist says this week’s milk production report confirms the dairy herd is shrinking even though July’s milk production was slightly higher. “A big drop in some areas that shows there’s been some [Read More…]

The USDA says pork production during July was a new monthly record at 1.986 billion pounds. That’s up 6% on the year, with a 6% increase in the slaughter to 9.596 million head and the [Read More…]

Brownfield Ag News anchor/reporter Ken Anderson received the American Coalition for Ethanol’s (ACE) 2018 Media Excellence Award at the group’s recent annual conference in Minneapolis. Presenting the award, ACE Communications Director Katie Fletcher said Anderson [Read More…]

A senior marketing specialist with AGCO Corporation says the company is helping farmers in the Midwest maximize their return on investment with crop tour. Larry Kuster says the on-farm research program shows farmers how different [Read More…]

On Tues. August 28th, at 6:00 p.m. Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Larry Lee will be on the ground for the Professional Dairy Producers Twilight Meeting in Athens, WI. Continue reading Professional Dairy Producers Twilight Meeting at Brownfield Ag [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Amie Simpson will be on the grounds (Hendricks Country Fairgrounds, Danville, IN) Saturday, August 25 for the Indiana Farm Bureau Delegate Session. Continue reading Indiana Farm Bureau Delegate Session at Brownfield Ag News.