Ag News

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sent its 2019 ethanol volume mandates and 2020 biodiesel volume mandates to the White House.  The news service Platts reports the notice, from the Office of Management and Budget, [Read More…]

An extension soybean agronomist anticipates a chaotic stretch for farmers trying to catch up on planting. Seth Naeve with the University of Minnesota says soils throughout the Upper Midwest are warm and wet, and fieldwork [Read More…]

  A dairy specialist recommends farmers search for alternative management ideas to help overcome a year in the red. “Try not to get pessimistic with what’s going on, we’ve been here before.” Vita Plus dairy [Read More…]

Dairy farmers, like others, want to see a good NAFTA agreement to help bolster markets but not everyone sees Canada’s Class 7 powder prices as a problem. Continue reading Dairy leaders on what NAFTA, Canada’s [Read More…]

If a dairy cow eats GMO feed grains does that mean you are drinking GMOs in your milk?  The answer is, NO, it does not. Continue reading There’s no such thing as GMO milk at Brownfield [Read More…]

A frustratingly small window for fieldwork has some farmers in southern Minnesota preparing for crop failures. Lawrence Sukalski grows corn and soybeans in south-central Minnesota near the Iowa border. He says in four decades of [Read More…]

In its latest crop progress report, the USDA says corn farmers worked around scattered thunderstorms late last week to bring planting to 40 percent complete. However, Lawrence Sukalski says his farm in Martin County has [Read More…]

A north-central Iowa farmer behind on planting says conditions resemble early April rather than mid-May. Wayne Fredericks of Osage is a strip and no-till corn and soybean grower who uses cover crops. He tells Brownfield [Read More…]

As of Sunday, 72 percent of Nebraska’s corn crop was planted, slight ahead of the five-year average, with 41 percent of soybeans in the ground, also ahead of normal. Winter wheat condition rated 64 percent [Read More…]

The pace of corn planting in Iowa varies widely, from 91 percent complete in the southeast to 26 percent in north-central Iowa. Overall, the state’s corn crop is 65 percent planted, up from 40 percent [Read More…]

Milk futures were higher and the cash dairy markets were mixed Monday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Class Three May milk was up $.01 at $15.24 a hundredweight. June was up $.23 to $16.09. July [Read More…]

A friend of the court brief has been filed by 14 state Attorneys General supporting the repeal of the Obama Administrations’ organic livestock and poultry practices rule. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley says the 2017 [Read More…]

The Farm Bill is a top priority in the U.S. House of Representatives this week.  Ag Committee Chairman Michael Conaway worked all weekend trying to round up support from other Republicans. The House Rules Committee [Read More…]

  The USDA reports that as of the week ending May 14th, sorghum export inspections remain ahead of the USDA’s anticipated pace for the 2017/18 marketing year. The current marketing year runs through the end [Read More…]

The next round of trade talks with China will continue tomorrow in DC. Tensions have been high since both countries announced tariffs on 50 billion dollars worth of goods, and President Trump proposed an additional [Read More…]

There are many factors that can keep a crop from breaking ground, including everything from low temperature to disease to herbicide injury. “There can be a lot of different things that can go wrong,” said [Read More…]

Legislation important to the pocketbooks of Minnesota farmers is making progress as the Session winds down. Representative Jeanne Poppe of Austin, DFL lead on the House Ag Finance Committee, says reauthorizing the Rural Finance Authority [Read More…]

Some parts of the northern Corn Belt where planting has just begun are experiencing wet, cool conditions. University of Minnesota Extension corn agronomist Jeff Coulter says he’s not overly concerned about seed germination. “It’s colder [Read More…]

Many farmers in the Upper Midwest are working between rains to make up for a lost April. Southeast Minnesota corn and soybean grower Ryan Buck says despite a late start, conditions have rapidly improved. “Maybe [Read More…]

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) says there is year over year, month over month growth in some farm equipment sales. AEM’s Curt Blades tells Brownfield growth is seen in sales of large horsepower tractors, [Read More…]