Ag News

The ongoing GMO debate has left much of the agriculture industry battered and bruised.  In this Managing for Profit,  geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam explains how the ag industry can learn from that debate to change the conversation [Read More…]

Final results from the 2018 Nebraska Farm Real Estate Survey show a fourth consecutive year of declining ag land values. The statewide average value dropped four percent to 2,270 dollars per acre. That’s an 18 [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Larry Lee will be on the ground in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26 for the Sustainable Agronomy Conference.   Continue reading Sustainable Agronomy Conference at Brownfield Ag News.      

With the defeat of the Securing America’s Future Act in the U.S. House, a farm group is concerned about whether Congress can get important fixes into immigration laws that farmers need. Mace Thornton with American [Read More…]

The U.S. House defeated Congressmen Bob Goodlatte and Michael McCaul’s Securing America’s Future Act, and have shifted the debate to the so-called immigration compromise bill leaving agriculture without a worker visa fix. Republican Representative Dan [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures closed slightly lower falling to pressure from the outside markets and uncertain export future.  The lack of direction from the cash trade hasn’t helped the futures markets gain [Read More…]

Soybeans were lower on commercial and technical selling, with July notching another two-year low spot price. Weekly export numbers were neutral to bearish and trade tensions with China continue ahead of scheduled tariffs, with no [Read More…]

Without further debate on Thursday, the House of Representatives passed its version of the farm bill by a vote of 213-211. The House bill will now have to go to conference with a Senate farm bill [Read More…]

Tart cherry growers are taking issue with Turkey and its dumping into the U.S. Phil Korson with the Cherry Marketing Institute tells Brownfield they recently met with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and testified before [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Tom Steever and Rhiannon Branch will be at the Bradford Research Center in Columbia, Missouri on July 12, 2018 for Training Agricultural Professionals: Crop and Soil Management Workshop.   Continue reading Crop and Soil [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Amie Sites will be on the ground when National FFA makes an important announcement on Monday June 25 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Continue reading National FFA announcement at Brownfield Ag News.      

Like many farmers, Bill Shipley of Nodaway, Iowa expresses mixed feelings about the trade dispute with China. On the one hand, Shipley says there are many long-running trade issues with China that needed to be [Read More…]

Iowa farmer Kevin Ross will become first vice president of the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) this fall. The vote by NCGA’s Corn Board puts Ross in line to become the organization’s president in October [Read More…]

The USDA reports soybean, soybean product, and wheat export sales for the week ending June 14th were within most pre-report expectations. The 2018/19 marketing year for wheat got underway June 1st, while 2017/18 runs through [Read More…]

Steve Mercer with U.S. Wheat Associates says Chinese retaliatory tariffs would cause significant harm. “There’s the African saying that when the elephants fight, the grass suffers.  Unfortunately in this case, I think the grass is [Read More…]

The European Union’s 25 percent tariff on nearly 200 U.S. products including corn is set to go into effect Friday and is causing concern. The EU has said it will impose the tariff on $3.2 [Read More…]

A southeast Minnesota farmer says he was astonished by what he saw during a field check Wednesday. Ryan Buck tells Brownfield he was in northern Goodhue County near the Mississippi and Vermilion Rivers, where several [Read More…]

Four FFA members have been named Stars over Indiana for their Supervised Agricultural Experience Programs. Tyler Jester of Monroe Central FFA was named the Indiana FFA State Star Farmer. He raises calves, goats, and pigs. [Read More…]

Grain marketing is one of the biggest challenges many farmers face.  It can be a real emotional roller coaster. Klint and Aimee Bissell of Bedford, Iowa have developed a strategy that Aimee says helps take the emotion out [Read More…]

The US Farmers and Ranchers Alliance has named Erin Fitzgerald as its next CEO.  Fitzgerald will work with the USFRA and its industry partners to engage with consumers and stakeholders to advance the dialogue about [Read More…]