Ag News

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle finished the day higher while feeder cattle closed lower.  Contracts traded lower the majority of the session due to lack of support from cash business and weak wholesale [Read More…]

  The heads of the Senate Ag Committee have introduced bipartisan legislation to increase support for veteran farmers. Chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow of Michigan’s Farmer Veteran Opportunity Act of [Read More…]

  An ethanol industry leader says giving RINs credits to oil refiners exporting biofuels does not comply with the intent of the Renewable Fuels Standard. David Gloer is the general manager of POET biorefining in [Read More…]

  The President of the Michigan Corn Growers Association says he plans to wrap up planting Friday in the Thumb. Jason McConnachie grows corn, sugarbeets dry beans and wheat, as well as organic corn and [Read More…]

  U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says President Trump is taking personal interest in the House Ag Committee’s draft farm bill. The President met with House Ag Chairman Mike Conaway and Senate Ag Chairman Pat [Read More…]

U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) say they are pleased with action taken by the USDA and U.S. Trade Representative on India’s price support programs for wheat and rice. [Read More…]

Planting is wrapping up in some parts of the Midwest. Anne Meis, who farms near Elgin in northeast Nebraska, says they finished Thursday afternoon. “We finished up about 5:00 yesterday with our last bean field,” [Read More…]

Parts of the Midwest are still struggling to start planting. “We still haven’t been able to take a single box of seed out of the shed yet,” says Laura Cunningham of Nora Springs, Iowa, in [Read More…]

Across the Corn Belt, cold, rainy weather is maintaining a sluggish fieldwork pace across the upper Midwest. This is further widening the gap between planting progress in northern corn and soybean production areas and the [Read More…]

  A short-lived surge of cool air will blanket much of the northern and western U.S. into the weekend. By early next week, however, warmth will return to the North, leaving much of the country [Read More…]

Chinese food giant Cofco is expanding its Brazilian operations.  A company source told Bloomberg Cofco has hired nearly a dozen additional people to buy soybeans directly from Brazilian farmers in four major growing regions. Cofco [Read More…]

Beef production is projected to increase through the end of the year.  Jim Mintert, with Purdue’s Center for Commerical Agriculture, says that isn’t good news for beef prices. But, as he tells Brownfield there are other [Read More…]

Wisconsin’s Attorney General says the uncertainty for Wisconsin hemp farmers and processors is over.  Brad Schimel tells Brownfield farmers planning on growing industrial hemp can proceed as long as they are licensed and registered through [Read More…]

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue is getting back on the road to hear from people in rural communities.  This fourth leg of his Back to Our Roots tour starts Monday with stops in New Mexico, Colorado, [Read More…]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it plans to maintain higher-than-average releases from Missouri River dams over the next several months. The corps says the increased releases are because of the higher-than-average runoff forecast [Read More…]

Several groups are pushing for farm subsidy reform in the 2018 Farm Bill. Daren Bakst with the Heritage Foundation says the proposed House farm bill has reform – but is headed in the wrong direction.  “This [Read More…]

  A new report by the beef industry highlights how producers are improving in some of the most important areas to consumers. Mandy Carr with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association tells Brownfield the Beef Stewardship Review [Read More…]

Thirteen states are partaking in a national emergency response training for a Food and Mouth Disease outbreak this week. Emergency management coordinator Brad Deacon with the Michigan Department of Agriculture tells Brownfield a Foot and [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, strengthening fundamentals helped push cattle futures higher.  Today’s move up was supported by the USDA’s Supply/Demand Report.  Beef production for 2018 was reduced by 420 million pounds from last month.  [Read More…]

  The USDA projects year to year declines in corn and soybean production. In its first round of estimates for the new marketing year, corn production is seen at 14.040 billion bushels with an average [Read More…]