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South Dakota crops are slightly behind last year but ahead of the 5-year-average. Soybeans are 91 percent emerged and 61 percent good to excellent. Corn 66 percent good to excellent. Winter wheat is 89 percent [Read More…]

Wisconsin farmer Ron Roehrborn with the Sheboygan River Progressive Farmers producer-led watershed group shares his experiences with cover crops to save nutrients, soil, and preserve water quality. Continue reading Experiment with cover crops at Brownfield Ag [Read More…]

An official with the U.S. Trade Representative’s office says the retaliatory tariffs China announced Friday against U.S. products does include American dairy products.  The official, who declined to give her name, told Brownfield the items [Read More…]

President Trump is preparing for yet another round of tariffs on Chinese products. Trump announced 50-billion in tariffs Friday, which was quickly followed by China’s retaliation with tariffs on agricultural and manufactured goods.  The list [Read More…]

Nebraska crops remain in good shape despite topsoil moistures that are 30 percent short. The USDA says 86 percent of the corn is in good to excellent condition. Soybeans aren’t far off, checking in at [Read More…]

The USDA rates 84 percent of Iowa’s corn crop and 80 percent of soybeans in good to excellent condition. Rain was hit and miss again last week, with parts of Northern Iowa getting unwelcome precipitation [Read More…]

Precipitation helped improve soil conditions in Indiana this week. The USDA says that corn is at various stages but is benefiting from warmer conditions. corn is 99 percent emerged and 76 percent good to excellent. [Read More…]

According to the USDA, light rains provided some crop relief in Michigan this week. Barley conditions improved, despite dry conditions, and is 86 percent planted and 77 percent good to excellent. Corn is 93 percent [Read More…]

Crop condition ratings for Minnesota continue to hover well above most Midwestern states. The USDA says 88 percent of corn is in good to excellent condition, and 83 percent of soybeans are good to excellent. [Read More…]

Elderberry production is expanding throughout the Midwest. “The elderberry is a new crop to grow in the Midwest. Now, we have several hundred people that are growing elderberries throughout the region and even on both [Read More…]

   Across the Corn Belt, a cold front extending from Michigan to Nebraska is helping to focus widespread showers and thunderstorms. Cooler weather prevails in the upper Midwest, but high humidity levels and significantly above-normal [Read More…]

Almost four-thousand feral hogs have been eradicated in Missouri so far this year. Missouri Department of Conservation’s Bill White tells Brownfield they are partnering with USDA to reduce the risk of damage to farmland. “The [Read More…]

The most recent Twitter banter between the leaders of the U.S. and Canada suggest the two countries might be smoothing out trade differences. Over the weekend, President Trump jokingly tweeted that Canada had agreed to [Read More…]

Iowa ag secretary Mike Naig has secured the Republican party nomination to run for that office in November. Naig topped four other candidates in voting Saturday at the Iowa Republican Party’s state convention. Naig defeated [Read More…]

Brownfield’s Amie Sites will be on the ground for the Indiana Farm Bureau Ag Policy Outlook Conference on Tuesday, June 26 in Indianapolis. Continue reading Indiana Farm Bureau Ag Policy Outlook Conference at Brownfield Ag [Read More…]

China retaliated late Friday with 25% tariffs on more U.S. ag goods in response to President Trump’s additional tariffs on more than one-thousand Chinese goods. The U.S. ag products that would be subject to Chinese [Read More…]

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Mark Dorenkamp will cover the Syngenta I-35 monarch visit on Friday, June 22nd in Dennison, MN. Continue reading Syngenta I-35 monarch visit at Brownfield Ag News.      

Lincoln University is a Missouri Land Grant institution that’s one of several doing research on feeding cattle under cover versus feeding in traditional uncovered pens.  George Washington Carver Experiment Farm Manager Jeremiah Markway says the [Read More…]

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says the US could potentially reach a bilateral deal with Mexico before it comes to an agreement with Canada. The Trump administration has recently floated the idea of negotiating bilateral deals [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures closed sharply higher on strong buyer interest.  Yesterday’s news that China had added 20 USDA approved facilities was supportive to move as was the futures discount to cash.  [Read More…]