Ag News

June is Dairy Month. Southern Missouri dairy farmer Lloyd Gunter is hosting tours of his dairy farm, he tells Brownfield, because it’s important. “When you have hands-on or eye-on contact by seeing what’s there, it’s [Read More…]

  Both of Wisconsin’s Senators have signed onto Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s bill that would remove industrial hemp from the federal Controlled Substances Act. Republican Ron Johnson and Democrat Tammy Baldwin join Wisconsin Representatives [Read More…]

  The Senate Ag committee’s draft farm bill released Friday got a much warmer reception than the House version. Senate Ag Committee member Tina Smith of Minnesota tells Brownfield she likes what’s in their draft farm [Read More…]

USDA’s Undersecretary for Trade is leading a trade mission to Japan next week with dozens of people from several state ag departments, businesses and commodity groups. Ted McKinney says Japan is already a top market [Read More…]

President Trump is at the G7 Summit with trade tensions high between the U.S., Canada and other allies. Trump reportedly is calling for Russia to re-join the G-8. Earlier this week, a group of Senate Republicans [Read More…]

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Larry Lee will be on the ground for the Wisconsin State Fair on August 2, 2018 in West Allis, WI.     Continue reading Wisconsin State Fair at Brownfield Ag News.      

The president of the National Corn Growers Association says Bayer’s merger with Monsanto – approved this week – will “probably be okay.” Kevin Skunes, a North Dakota grower, says the NCGA-funded study about the merger [Read More…]

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Larry Lee will be on the ground for the Potato Research Demonstration in Hancock, WI on July 19, 2018.   Continue reading Potato Research Demonstration at Brownfield Ag News.      

President Trump tweeted the following this week: “Farmers have not been doing well for 15 years. Mexico, Canada and China and others have treated them unfairly. By the time I finish trade talks, that will [Read More…]

The heads of the Senate Ag Committee say their draft farm bill will be released today with committee markup scheduled for next Wednesday. Chairman Pat Roberts and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow formally announced the timeline [Read More…]

The leader of the Soybean Transportation Coalition is pleased the House passed the Water Resources Development Act or WRDA.  Mike Steenhoek says having the WRDA bills back on a two-year cycle helps keep infrastructure issues [Read More…]

An ag economist says at least part of the rise in the latest CME/Purdue Ag Economy Barometer can be attributed to how producers feel about the ag economy.  However, there isn’t the same positive feeling [Read More…]

Pork producers are understandably concerned about the import tariffs on pork imposed by China and Mexico. But livestock economist Steve Meyer of Kerns and Associates says it’s not the “Armageddon” scenario some have portrayed it [Read More…]

An Iowa Senator is not optimistic about seeing E15 fuel at the pumps this summer. Joni Ernst tells Brownfield, “Unfortunately, we won’t be able to offer that E15 because of the bad deal that was [Read More…]

The chief ag trade negotiator for the U.S. says collateral damage to agriculture from trade disputes could get worse before it gets better. Speaking at World Pork Expo, Gregg Doud said there are no silver [Read More…]

An ag economist says more farmers are getting loans through implement dealers than they were ten years ago. Todd Kuethe with the University of Illinois tells Brownfield over the last decade, about a third of [Read More…]

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures were mostly lower on spread trade, profit taking, and position squaring ahead of the week’s widespread direct cash business. June was up $.07 at $108.37 and August was down [Read More…]

The USDA Ag Census has gotten back just over half of the questionnaires it has sent out to gather data on this year’s farming operations. Bob Garino is USDA’s statistician in Missouri, “It’s not as [Read More…]

Jul. corn closed at $3.76 and 1/4, down 2 cents Jul. soybeans closed at $9.74 and 1/4, down 20 cents Jul. soybean meal closed at $358.40, down $6.60 Jul. soybean oil closed at 30.60, down 5 points Jul. wheat closed at $5.26 and 3/4, up 7 cents Jun. [Read More…]

USDA Under Secretary Greg Ibach says farmers are concerned about trade disputes, but he says they understand the trade playing field has not been level. “There are tariffs in place and sanitary and phytosanitary complications [Read More…]