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A group of Mexican buyers touring cattle operations in Missouri and Illinois this week say they don’t want to lose NAFTA. On Tuesday, the buyers visited Mead Farms in Barnett, Missouri. Marco Alvarez and Julio [Read More…]

Missouri Farm Bureau President Blake Hurst calls legislative action on the state’s gas tax a big win for rural Missourians and the entire state.  Lawmakers passed a bill that will let voters decide whether to [Read More…]

Corn planting reached 66 percent as of Sunday in South Dakota, well behind last year and the average. Soybean planting in South Dakota is 24 percent complete, way behind last year and the average. Emergence [Read More…]

Commentary. Spring was just a blip on the screen following the winter-that-would-never-end.  My lilacs were in full bloom for about 2 minutes before they faded and folded and disappeared.  Summer is in a very big [Read More…]

The dairy markets were down Wednesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  Class Three May milk was unchanged at $15.24 a hundredweight. June was down $.09 to $15.75. July was down $.01 to $16.45.  August was [Read More…]

Seven White House meetings to discuss the Renewable Fuel Standard in recent months have ethanol groups working hard to separate fact from fiction. Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor says speculation follows every gathering between the [Read More…]

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Nicole Heslip will be on the ground for a statewide candidate forum hosted by Michigan Farm Bureau on August, 15 in Lansing, MI. Continue reading Michigan statewide candidate forum at Brownfield Ag News. [Read More…]

   Across the Corn Belt, showers and thunderstorms are overspreading the upper Midwest, where corn and soybean planting has advanced quickly in recent days but remains mostly behind schedule. On May 20, corn planting was [Read More…]

Illinois corn planting is winding down and farmers made good progress last week with soybean planting and hay cutting. Temperatures and rain were above normal. The Illinois USDA NASS office says corn planted was at 96 [Read More…]

What do labels on beef mean about how cattle are raised? Mandy Carr  with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says almost all cattle are raised on pasture, but there are some differences which can be [Read More…]

A low-pressure system over the western Caribbean Sea will drift northward, possibly acquiring tropical or subtropical characteristics. Regardless of development, an extremely wet weather pattern will persist in parts of the Southeast, where 5-day rainfall [Read More…]

  Over the weekend, U.S. and Chinese trade officials announced proposed tariffs were being put on hold. In addition, China said it plans to significantly increase purchases of U.S. goods and services, including energy and [Read More…]

U.S. renewable fuels advocates are building off the momentum of record ethanol exports in 2017 to grow market-share. The Renewable Fuels Association, Growth Energy, and U.S. Grains Council (USGC) are hosting an Ethanol Summit of [Read More…]

U.S. Grains Council CEO Tom Sleight says China’s revocation of duties on U.S. sorghum could signal progress for corn exports. “U.S. corn is very competitive into China, and for various political reasons, biotechnology a big [Read More…]

The Fastest Rookie program and the Indianapolis 500 continue to highlight the importance of the Indiana dairy industry. Andrew Kuehnert, this year’s Indianapolis 500 rookie milkman, says he is honored to take part in both [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures closed mostly higher in a choppy trading session ahead of today’s Cold Storage report.  The numbers were fairly neutral to cattle.  Traders will look ahead to Friday’s Cattle [Read More…]

Jul. corn closed at $4.04 and 3/4, up 2 cents Jul. soybeans closed at $10.30 and 1/2, up 5 and 1/4 cents Jul. soybean meal closed at $377.50, down $1.60 Jul. soybean oil closed at [Read More…]

Minnesota farmers remain in the dark on many pieces of legislation important to agriculture as the 2018 Legislative Session ends. Minnesota Farmers Union director of government relations Thom Petersen says he’s not sure if Governor [Read More…]

The dairy markets were mixed Tuesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  Class Three May milk was up $.02 at $15.24 a hundredweight. June was down $.06 to $15.84. July was up $.01 to $16.46.  August [Read More…]

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says he was not in favor of a farm bill amendment that would have changed U.S. sugar policy.  “I would hate to see that come into the farm bill at this [Read More…]