Ag News

  Across the Corn Belt, showers are overspreading drought-affected areas in Missouri and environs. The rain is largely too late for corn but should benefit pastures and later-developing summer crops such as soybeans. On August [Read More…]

  Late-summer heat will persist in the West and spread eastward across the nation’s northern tier, reaching the northern High Plains by mid-week and the Great Lakes region by week’s end. Meanwhile, showery weather will [Read More…]

The recent court cases North Carolina where juries ruled farm smells and noises were a nuisance has farmers around the country paying attention and Rusty Rumley with the National Ag Law Center explains these suits [Read More…]

An Iowa-based dairy processor says they’ve been waiting for the right opportunity to expand in Michigan. “This will be the largest permeate plant in the world.” Vice President of Business Development Mark Peterson with Proliant [Read More…]

The head of CropLife America says the federal appeals court ruling last week for the EPA to ban a pesticide is flawed, “It has serious procedural and precedential issues and, beyond that, we don’t think [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures ended the day lower on the lack of any supportive fundamentals and technical selling.  August live cattle closed $1.05 lower at $107.20 and October contracts closed $1.10 lower [Read More…]

Minnesota crops are maturing faster than normal. The latest USDA report says 65 percent of corn has reached the dough stage, one week ahead of the five-year average. More than 90 percent of soybeans are [Read More…]

Monsanto plans to vigorously defend its Roundup herbicide and will appeal a California court decision linking the product to cancer. A jury in San Francisco Superior Court has awarded a former school groundskeeper who has [Read More…]

Some farmers might be skeptical of the USDA projecting record corn yields given some of the challenges this growing season. But, Minnesota Farm Bureau president Kevin Paap says many parts of the Corn Belt have [Read More…]

Class III milk futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange closed lower Monday to take back Friday’s gains. August milk closed down two cents at $15.02.  September milk down 11 cents at $16.02. October down 17 [Read More…]

An ag economics professor at Purdue University says the proposed trade relief package could cause even more problems for farmers. Wally Tyner says other countries, like Canada, are trying to bring a World Trade Organization [Read More…]

U.S. ambassador to China and former Iowa governor Terry Branstad says President Trump is justified in challenging China on the issue of free trade. “China has not treated us or other countries fairly for a [Read More…]

Two Iowa farmers say they’re looking forward to a good harvest this fall. Josh Nelson farms with family near Belmond in north-central Iowa. He says they’ve probably lost about ten percent of their corn and [Read More…]

Severe to extreme drought conditions continue across much of Missouri. Northwest Missouri cattleman Don Fischer says, in his 40 years of farming, he’s never seen it so dry. “Ponds are drying up. The hay crop [Read More…]

A California jury has ordered Monsanto to pay 289 million dollars in damages in the first of possibly thousands of U.S. lawsuits over alleged links between its glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide and cancer. The case of [Read More…]

The USDA reports soybean export inspections remain on pace to meet projections for the 2017/18 marketing year. The current marketing year for beans, corn, and sorghum runs through the end of August. Wheat came out [Read More…]

Monday is the first day of work for Wisconsin’s Dairy Task Force 2.0, a task force requested by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to look into the issues causing low prices, large supplies, and financial stress [Read More…]

Different weeds present different levels of competition for water and nutrients.  Syngenta weed scientist Brett Craigmyle says no matter what the weed is, it’s also important to keep them under control.  All weeds compete for [Read More…]

An attorney with the National Agricultural Law Center says additional nuisance lawsuit jury awards against North Carolina hog farmers might continue. Senior Staff Attorney Rusty Rumley tells Brownfield when producers for Smithfield Foods lost in [Read More…]

Many farmers say they are concerned about trade tensions with China as the Trump administration announces even more tariffs. Brad Reynolds with Ohio Corn and Wheat says it’s critical that farmers have a market for [Read More…]