Ag News

A central Minnesota farmer is confident having a strip-till system has given him an advantage as wet, cool conditions delay planting throughout most of the Upper Midwest. Bryan Ryberg of Buffalo Lake says with strips [Read More…]

A policy specialist with American Farm Bureau says amendments could derail Mike Conaway’s House Farm Bill already on shaky ground because of partisan division over the nutrition title. Dale Moore tells Brownfield the Ag Committee [Read More…]

The first Bayer ForwardFarm in the United States was launched recently near Rock Hall, Maryland. Bayer ForwardFarming is a global initiative demonstrating sustainable agriculture in practice on independent farms around the world. Harborview Farms is [Read More…]

Another White House meeting to discuss biofuels policy will take place early next week. The offices of Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley have confirmed to Brownfield that the two Iowa senators have been invited to [Read More…]

This is Soil and Water Conservation Week in Iowa. Iowa ag secretary Mike Naig says they’re highlighting the ongoing work by farmers, landowners and urban residents to protect the state’s soil and water resources. And [Read More…]

  The USDA reports combined old and new crop export sales of corn, soybeans, and wheat for the week ending April 26th were at the high end of pre-report estimates, while old crop soybean product [Read More…]

Amie Sites will cover the Ethanol Forum by Indiana Corn Growers Association on May 17  at Ivy Tech Corporate College and Culinary Center, Indianapolis. Continue reading Ethanol Forum by Indiana Corn Growers Association at Brownfield [Read More…]

  The U.S. Soybean Export Council says the U.S. is attracting more business than usual for soybean sales even with reduced shipments to China and competition from South American. “While China has been focusing their [Read More…]

    Across the Corn Belt, showers are further delaying fieldwork in central portions of the region. In contrast, drier, warmer weather across the Upper Midwest is allowing producers to commence planting of corn, soybeans and [Read More…]

New analysis shows as retail gas prices are forecast to climb to levels not seen in four years, ethanol could save consumers nearly $40 billion dollars at the pump. Each year ahead of the summer [Read More…]

A west-central Minnesota sugar beet grower says this is one of the latest starts to planting he can remember. Noah Hultgren farms in Kandiyohi County. “2011 was a really late spring.  I don’t think we [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures closed mostly higher except for the nearby contracts which couldn’t bounce back from early losses.  Cattle futures are supported by higher cash trade and retail beef prices [Read More…]

  The head of the U.S. Soybean Export Council says new soybean sales to China have ground to a halt this past month as trade uncertainty continues between the two countries. Jim Sutter tells Brownfield [Read More…]

On September 10 Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Ken Anderson will be in Omaha, NE for the Midwest US-Japan Assn Conference.   Continue reading Midwest US-Japan Assn Conference at Brownfield Ag News.      

On June 18, Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Ken Anderson will be in Burwell, NE for the Nebraska Cattlemen’s Road Trip. . Continue reading Nebraska Cattlemen’s Road Trip at Brownfield Ag News.      

  U.S. ethanol production bounced back last week. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.032 million barrels a day, up 47,000 from the previous week, as some plants came back on line after [Read More…]

Dairy prices were mixed Wednesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  Class Three May milk was unchanged at $15.23 a hundredweight. June was down $.01 to $15.68. July was up $.01 to $16.06.  August was down [Read More…]

Reports of corn planting are starting to trickle in as fields warm up and dry out across southern Minnesota. University of Minnesota Extension crops educator Dave Nicolai says some New Ulm area farmers began earlier [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Mark Dorenkamp will be on the ground for the IA Renewable Fuels Forum in Mason City on May 17, 2018. Continue reading IA Renewable Fuels Forum at Brownfield Ag News.      

Direct cash cattle trade is quiet with a few scattered bids reported in parts of Kansas and Texas at $120 live and $195 to $196 dressed in Nebraska.  A few asking prices have been reported [Read More…]