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Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures were sharply higher, supported by technical buying, while digesting last week’s slow to start direct cash business and watching the distribution of this week’s new showlist. August was $2.37 [Read More…]

Sep. corn closed at $3.41 and 3/4, up 1/2 cent Aug. soybeans closed at $8.29 and 1/2, up 10 and 3/4 cents Aug. soybean meal closed at $329.10, up $3.10 Aug. soybean oil closed at 27.64, down 33 points Sep. wheat closed [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, patchy, short-term dryness persists in several areas, including much of Michigan and a broad area centered on northern Missouri, resulting in an increase in stress on pastures and crops such as [Read More…]

Hot, mostly dry weather will prevail for the remainder of the week in northern California and the Northwest, as well as the south-central U.S. Meanwhile, showers will continue across the Southwest, but may become more [Read More…]

  Dairy futures were mostly up on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Monday. July Class Three milk was down $.01 at $14.26.   August was up $.34 to $15.18. September was down $.25 to $15.51.  October was [Read More…]

Farmers in the Upper Midwest are finding new and better ways to seed cover crops. Soil Health Partnership field manager Tricia Verville says growing cover crops in northern states like Minnesota and Wisconsin has been [Read More…]

How will the USDA estimate tariff damages to farmers? “We have analytical procedures that can give us some idea but it’s really going to be really hard,” says Carl Zulauf, Ohio State ag economist. US Ag [Read More…]

The USDA reports corn and soybean export inspections as of the week ending July 12th remain close to projections for the current marketing year. The 2018/19 marketing year for wheat got underway June 1st, while [Read More…]

The CEO of a data and analytics company which has changed dramatically since it was founded in the 1970s tells Brownfield data will be a competitive advantage in agriculture. Steve Rau, who leads Farm Market ID, [Read More…]

USDA Under-secretary Ted McKinney is leading a trade mission to expand ag export opportunities in Southeast Asia this week. The mission is based in Indonesia, but also includes buyers from Malaysia and the Philippines interested [Read More…]

U.S. sheep and goat exports will be accepted into Japan for the first time in in more than 14 years. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says the agreement is the result of work by the USDA [Read More…]

A central Illinois agronomist says the crops in his area look better than average. Matt Montgomery is with Pioneer. “Seventy-five to eighty percent of the district I cover really, really looks good,” he says.  “In [Read More…]

An analyst concerned about Chinese tariffs on soybeans says the U.S. is not in danger of being phased out of that market long-term. Don Roose, president of U.S. Commodities in Des Moines, tells Brownfield top [Read More…]

A recent Food and Drug Administration hearing on lab-produced meat may have been the first volley in a potential “turf war” over regulation of the new technology. Danielle Beck of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, [Read More…]

Farmers should make sure fertilizer spreaders are maintained correctly so that the amount of fertilizer applied is consistent and accurately placed.  Poorly adjusted spreaders result in lost corn yield, according to Peter Scharf, nutrient management [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Julie Harker will be on the ground fore the Missouri state Women in Ag conference in Cape Girardeau, MO September 17 – 19.   Continue reading Missouri state Women in Ag conference at Brownfield [Read More…]

    Across the Corn Belt, showers and thunderstorms are primarily confined to the upper Midwest. Drought continues to adversely affect some corn and soybeans in the southwestern and northeastern Corn Belt. On July 8, at [Read More…]

    Across the Corn Belt, showers and thunderstorms are primarily confined to the upper Midwest. Drought continues to adversely affect some corn and soybeans in the southwestern and northeastern Corn Belt. On July 8, at [Read More…]

The latest USDA data says through June 28, more than 5 million metric tons of soybean sales to China have been lost because of trade disputes. American Farm Bureau Federation economist Veronica Nigh says the [Read More…]

Milk futures and most cash dairy prices were down on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Friday. July Class Three milk was down $.03 at $14.27.   August was down $.16 to $14.84. September was down $.13 to [Read More…]