Ag News

More farmers are tuning to the H-2A guest worker program as a source of seasonal labor, a lot more. The Department of Labor reports requests for workers has increased by more than 160 percent over [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Amie Sites will attend the Indiana Soybean Alliance Glass Barn Reception Thursday, August 2 at the Indiana State Fair. Continue reading Indiana Soybean Alliance Glass Barn Reception at Brownfield Ag News.      

The National FFA and Microsoft have formed a joint initiative to provide classroom technology and research to more than 650,000 FFA students. Microsoft Vice-President Mary Snapp says the project will ensure ag classrooms nationwide are [Read More…]

We live in a digital age where we want answers immediately. An agronomist says they’re using social media as a digital coffee shop to talk all things farming. In this Managing for Profit Pioneer’s Doran [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures ended the day sharply lower ahead of widespread direct business.  They were also pressured by poor export data and heavy supply concerns.  August live cattle closed $1.07 lower [Read More…]

Soybeans were mostly fractionally higher, mostly unable to follow through on the early strength. Contracts were up sharply at the open as weekly export sales were larger than expected, including big new crop sales to [Read More…]

Sep. corn closed at $3.61 and 1/2, up 2 and 1/4 cents Aug. soybeans closed at $8.61 and 1/4, up 1/2 cent Aug. soybean meal closed at $332.60, up $2.60 Aug. soybean oil closed at 28.15, down 26 points Sep. wheat closed at $5.36 and 1/2, down [Read More…]

President Trump told Iowa farmers he’s close to making a biofuels announcement.  “I’m very close, I have to tell you, to pulling off something that you’ve been looking forward to for many years, and that’s [Read More…]

The milk futures were down and cash dairy prices were up at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Thursday. July Class Three milk was down $.04 at $14.14.   August was down $.07 at $14.85. September was down [Read More…]

Missouri’s U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt are requesting additional drought assistance from the USDA. A joint statement from the senators said Missouri is in the worst period of drought since 2012 and farmers [Read More…]

Corn growers nationwide can use their Twitter accounts to help diagnose corn diseases. Nathan Kleczewski, Plant Pathologist at the University of Illinois tells Brownfield pictures of corn disease symptoms can be posted along with twitter [Read More…]

Drought conditions have expanded in the Midwest. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, 85% of Missouri is in some form of drought. Twenty-eight northern counties are experiencing the most severe conditions. Severe conditions are also [Read More…]

The Soil Health Partnership is working with farmers to link management practices like reduced tillage and cover crops to economic profitability. Illinois field manager Abigail Peterson says improving soil health isn’t enough for farmers facing [Read More…]

The vice president of the American Soybean Association says although the $12 billion aid package will help farmers, it’s unclear how it will be divided between commodities. Davie Stephens grows corn and soybeans in Western [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Julie Harker will be on the ground for the Vegetable Grower’s field day at MU Bradford Research Center, Columbia, MO on Thursday August 2. Continue reading Vegetable Grower’s field day at Brownfield Ag News. [Read More…]

The USDA reports combined old and new crop soybean export sales for the week ending July 19th were larger than what most analysts were expecting, while corn and wheat were within pre-report estimates. Physical shipments [Read More…]

The USDA is expecting flat to slightly higher prices at the grocery store this year. USDA food price economist Annemarie Kuhns says the latest grocery store food price forecast is flat to one percent higher. [Read More…]

Ag economist David Widmar says the aid package announced by the Trump Administration this week, to help American farmers impacted by the trade wars, lacks substance. Widmar, with Ag Economic Insights, says farmers don’t have [Read More…]

Trade disputes and heavy supplies are resulting in more meat piling up in U.S. cold-storage warehouses. A five percent uptick in beef and pork supplies, plus six percent more poultry reported this week by the [Read More…]

Missouri soybean farmers broke ground Tuesday for their new building in Jefferson City.  Building chairman John Kelley tells Brownfield it will be a roughly 18-month project to develop the Center for Soy Innovation. “It’s just [Read More…]