Ag News

The CEO of the US Meat Export Federation says getting a new NAFTA deal has been their top priority.  Dan Halstrom tells Brownfield the announcement of the USMCA this week is huge news for the US [Read More…]

A Minnesota farmer is seeing yields close to what he anticipated as harvest picks up. Brian Thalmann grows corn and soybeans southwest of the Twin Cities near the town of Plato. He tells Brownfield his [Read More…]

A grain handling manufacturer is reminding soybean farmers of important storage considerations. Steve Sukup is CFO of Iowa-based Sukup Manufacturing. “You want to make sure you have a good aeration system, especially having a full [Read More…]

A U.S. Senator from Minnesota is calling on President Trump to make his presence felt during Farm Bill negotiations. Democrat Tina Smith tells Brownfield she recently wrote the President about actions he could take to [Read More…]

A veterinarian from the Netherlands says their dairy farmers have many of the same challenges found elsewhere but on a different scale.  Dr. Gitty Oosterga is attending World Dairy Expo as a coordinator for the Master [Read More…]

Bedford, Iowa, auctioneer Russell Sleep is the Champion at the 2019 World Livestock Auctioneer Championship (WLAC) Midwestern Regional Qualifying Event. Holdenville Livestock Market in Holdenville, Oklahoma hosted the first of three WLAC qualifying events on [Read More…]

Class III Milk Futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange had a fairly quiet day.  October milk closed a penny higher at $15.82.  November down three cents at $16.01.  The December contract was unchanged at $15.98.  [Read More…]

Farm safety specialists are encouraging dairies to create a safe workplace culture on the farm. Mary Bauer works for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigating farm compliance and providing resources for farms to create [Read More…]

The USDA reports soybean export sales for the week ending September 27th were above pre-report expectations, while corn and wheat fell within most analysts’ estimates. Physical shipments of corn continue to trend ahead of the [Read More…]

Dairy farmers say they’re optimistic prices will turn around. Jeannette Sheehan milks 300 Registered Holsteins with her family in Rochester, Minnesota. The 2018 Dairy Woman of the Year tells Brownfield the current downcycle has been [Read More…]

Top Iowa officials are hailing the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Governor Kim Reynolds says U.S. dairy farmers will benefit from the deal. “Basically they’ve opened it up to the same requirements that Canada has [Read More…]

The ranking Senate Ag committee member says she can’t give away too many details but expects there will be a new farm bill this year, even as the September deadline has passed and differences remain, [Read More…]

US hog inventories are at record levels and a Minnesota pork producer says growing demand for US pork is a necessity.  Singapore and Vietnam are two countries in the Asian market the US pork industry [Read More…]

We’ve heard the old saying, “An apple a day can keep the doctor away” but is there research to back it up? There’s plenty of research showing the health benefits of eating apples. USApple   [Read More…]

Land O’Lakes SUSTAIN is launching an interactive on-farm digital platform that it says will help farmers advance their stewardship goals and return-on-investment in real time, acre by are, while at the same time provide food [Read More…]

The president of the South Dakota Farmers Union says there’s nothing in the new deal with Canada and Mexico for U.S. family farmers and ranchers. Doug Sombke, a crop and cattle producer says he’s happy [Read More…]

The University of Missouri’s new Plant Growth Research facility has reached a key phase. The “topping off”, or completion of the building’s framework, has been celebrated. The facility is expected to be completed next April. [Read More…]

Farm Bill Conference Committee member Vicky Hartzler of Missouri says there are still issues standing in the way of the 2018 farm bill reaching committee agreement. The primary one, according to Congresswoman Hartzler, is the SNAP [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures remain overbought.  The lack of direction from the cash trade, weak wholesale values, and the less than stellar Fed Cattle Exchange added pressure to prices.  October live cattle [Read More…]

Soybeans were modestly lower on profit taking and technical selling, ending a fairly quiet trading day just above session lows. The trade is watching U.S. harvest activity, expecting generally good progress ahead of more delays [Read More…]