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The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service has introduced a proposed rule on biotech labeling and is requesting public comment by July 3. The bill mandating GMO labeling on food and beverage products was signed into law [Read More…]

The Wisconsin Farmers Union President says Arla Foods decision to drop 11 dairy farms is another example of failed government policy.  Darin Von Ruden says Congress removed the market stabilization feature from the 2014 Farm [Read More…]

Bayer ForwardFarming is a global initiative demonstrating sustainable agriculture in practice on independent farms around the world.  Trey Hill a 4th generation partner in Harborview Farms, the first Bayer ForwardFarm in the United States, does [Read More…]

Butter and nonfat dry milk were up, but most other dairy markets were down Thursday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  Class Three May milk was down $.11 at $15.12 a hundredweight. June was down $.09 [Read More…]

The final projected yield from the 2018 Hard Winter Wheat Tour of Kansas and surrounding states is 37 bushels per acre. Tour participants estimated total wheat production in Kansas at just over 243 million bushels.  [Read More…]

Tyson says it’s investing $2.2 million in Future Meat Technologies, a Jerusalem-based biotech company that manufactures meat directly from animal cells, without having to raise or process animals. Tyson is also putting money into other [Read More…]

DuPont and Archer Daniels Midland have begun a first-of-its-kind pilot project to produce a renewable source of FDME at an ADM plant in Decatur, Illinois. “We’ve been working with ADM now for several years to [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures closed sharply higher supported by Thursday’s cash trade and stronger retail prices.  Feeder cattle also closed sharply higher – latching on to the momentum from the live cattle [Read More…]

  The American Farm Bureau Federation expects to offer dairy farmers a new revenue insurance policy later this summer. AFBF’s market intelligence director John Newton tells Brownfield they’ve partnered with American Farm Bureau Insurance Services [Read More…]

The world’s largest provider of crop inputs and services is launching what it calls a one-stop digital platform to assists growers with everything from agronomic decisions to paying bills. Nutrien, formed at the beginning of [Read More…]

A central Minnesota farmer is confident having a strip-till system has given him an advantage as wet, cool conditions delay planting throughout most of the Upper Midwest. Bryan Ryberg of Buffalo Lake says with strips [Read More…]

A policy specialist with American Farm Bureau says amendments could derail Mike Conaway’s House Farm Bill already on shaky ground because of partisan division over the nutrition title. Dale Moore tells Brownfield the Ag Committee [Read More…]

The first Bayer ForwardFarm in the United States was launched recently near Rock Hall, Maryland. Bayer ForwardFarming is a global initiative demonstrating sustainable agriculture in practice on independent farms around the world. Harborview Farms is [Read More…]

Another White House meeting to discuss biofuels policy will take place early next week. The offices of Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley have confirmed to Brownfield that the two Iowa senators have been invited to [Read More…]

This is Soil and Water Conservation Week in Iowa. Iowa ag secretary Mike Naig says they’re highlighting the ongoing work by farmers, landowners and urban residents to protect the state’s soil and water resources. And [Read More…]

  The USDA reports combined old and new crop export sales of corn, soybeans, and wheat for the week ending April 26th were at the high end of pre-report estimates, while old crop soybean product [Read More…]

Amie Sites will cover the Ethanol Forum by Indiana Corn Growers Association on May 17  at Ivy Tech Corporate College and Culinary Center, Indianapolis. Continue reading Ethanol Forum by Indiana Corn Growers Association at Brownfield [Read More…]

  The U.S. Soybean Export Council says the U.S. is attracting more business than usual for soybean sales even with reduced shipments to China and competition from South American. “While China has been focusing their [Read More…]

    Across the Corn Belt, showers are further delaying fieldwork in central portions of the region. In contrast, drier, warmer weather across the Upper Midwest is allowing producers to commence planting of corn, soybeans and [Read More…]

New analysis shows as retail gas prices are forecast to climb to levels not seen in four years, ethanol could save consumers nearly $40 billion dollars at the pump. Each year ahead of the summer [Read More…]