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Drought and forage losses in recent years have brought more attention to forage insurance. University of Missouri economist Ryan Millhollin tells Brownfield the drought of 2012 got the interest going and the number of buyers [Read More…]

Hadley Stiefvater of the McCook Central FFA Chapter in South Dakota won the Agriculture Research and Animal Systems Proficiency Award at the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis this past week. Hadley built a project around [Read More…]

  Across the Corn Belt, dry weather favors corn and soybean harvest efforts, despite an increase in cloudiness. Although 34% of the U.S. soybean acreage was harvested during the last 2 weeks, overall progress—72% harvested [Read More…]

Kids and Halloween candy go together, but what about tooth decay? A pediatric dentist says denying them is not the answer. Continue reading Let them eat candy but watch out for the sticky stuff at [Read More…]

Dr. Ahmed Altigani from the United Arab Emirates operates a 14-thousand cow dairy, which struggled to make money until he became his own consumer goods processor, focusing on unique products. Continue reading Improve margins by becoming [Read More…]

A trade dispute with China has resulted in their withdrawal as the largest foreign customer of U.S. soybeans. In a podcast, Gary Wheeler, Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council CEO, says that market gap means greater effort [Read More…]

USDA reporters say combines were rolling all over Wisconsin last week as farmers took advantage of a break from the rain.  Rain returned to some areas for the weekend, but good progress was made. Corn [Read More…]

Cool and mostly dry conditions allowed farmers to make progress on corn and soybean harvest in Indiana this week. Corn is 77 percent harvested and soybean harvest is 80 percent complete. Winter wheat planting and [Read More…]

Farmers were able to make corn and soybean progress in Ohio this week despite wet conditions. Corn harvest is ahead of the five-year average, but soybean harvest is slightly behind. Corn is 64 percent harvested [Read More…]

Missouri’s corn harvest progressed to 90 percent at the beginning of this week. It was around 80-percent this time last year. Soybeans dropping leaves reached 96 percent. Fifty-percent of soybeans have been harvested, nine percentage [Read More…]

The President of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers says the steel and aluminum tariffs President Trump placed on imported materials are affecting more than just the cost of machinery in the U.S.  Dennis Slater says, [Read More…]

The American Coalition for Ethanol has told the EPA it should remove regulatory barriers that prevent higher octane ethanol fuel blends from reaching the market. In a letter sent Friday, ACE President Brian Jennings says [Read More…]

Jakob Gmur, a member of the Whitewater FFA Chapter in Wisconsin, owns a lawn care and property service business. He provides weekly lawn mowing, spring and fall cleanups, landscaping, hardscaping, and snow removal. He has [Read More…]

Logan Paul is a member of the Randolph-Cambria-Friesland FFA Chapter in Wisconsin. He works for his father’s repair and metal fabrication business. He says most of his customers are dairy farmers needing equipment repaired. Advice [Read More…]

Amelia Hayden, with the Big Foot FFA Chapter in Wisconsin, began her supervised agricultural experience program by helping with an ag literacy event. Since then, she has worked with her county extension program to provide [Read More…]

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Ken Anderson will be at the CLAAS headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska October 30 to cover an Equipment Manufacturing Roundtable.   Continue reading Equipment Manufacturing Roundtable at Brownfield Ag News.      

   Tranquil weather will prevail in most areas of the country during the next several days. By mid-week, however, a developing storm system and its trailing cold front will help to focus rainfall across the [Read More…]

The USDA says corn export inspections as of the week ending October 25th remain ahead of the anticipated pace for the current marketing year. Wheat came out at 393,255 tons, up 6,294 from the week [Read More…]

A senior Mexican trade official says steel and aluminum tariffs must be lifted before the country will sign the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement. Juan Carlos Baker told reporters the countries need to solve the tariff [Read More…]

In the wake of the unimaginably tragic synagogue attack in Pittsburgh and the apprehension of an individual who mailed pipe bombs to at least 14 targets last week – most of them White House critics [Read More…]