Ag News

  The USDA has lowered its outlook for 2018 beef and pork production, because of slowdowns in slaughter rates. Beef is now projected at 27.278 billion pounds and pork is estimated at 26.784 billion. The [Read More…]

The dairy markets were mostly down Thursday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  Class Three May milk was down $.03 at $15.24 a hundredweight. June was down $.20 to $15.83. July was down $.20 to $16.06. [Read More…]

  The USDA expects this year’s U.S. winter wheat crop to be 1.192 billion bushels, 6% less than the 2017 total of 1.269 billion. The average yield is projected at 48.1 bushels per acre, down [Read More…]

  The USDA soybean meal exports for the week ending May 3rd notched a new marketing year low, while combined old and new crop corn, soybean, soybean oil, and wheat sales were generally towards the [Read More…]

Corteva Agriscience, the ag division of DowDuPont, has announced a new seed strategy for the U.S. Corteva will keep five regional brands—Dairyland Seed, Hoegemeyer, NuTech, Seed Consultants and Terral. Five other regional seed brands will [Read More…]

Texas Tech University’s plans for a new veterinary college—the first new veterinary school in the U.S. in 40 years—took another step forward this week. The Amarillo City Council approved a 69-million dollar funding plan to [Read More…]

President Trump is expected to discuss the Farm Bill with House Ag Chairman Mike Conaway and Senate Ag Chairman Pat Roberts today at the White House. There have been reports that Trump will only support [Read More…]

The USDA is seeking public comment on the long-awaited proposed rule for food labels containing genetically modified ingredients. However, the proposal would label the food as bioengineered, not GMO. Ryan Findlay, the CEO of the [Read More…]

It’s estimated that about 40 percent of food in the US goes uneaten. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue hosted a roundtable in DC this week to address the problem and discuss possible solutions. Some food waste [Read More…]

Galen Frenzen and his son operate a cattle ranching and farming operation near Fullerton, Nebraska. Their operation includes seedstock Angus and Polled Hereford cattle, as well as both fall and spring-calving herds. Frenzen says they [Read More…]

A consultant hired by the National Corn Growers Association says developing new bio-based chemicals from corn is “where the money is.” Nathan Danielson with BioCognito tells Brownfield technology and company demands for “sustainable” products have [Read More…]

The American Farmland Trust says U.S. farmland is disappearing at an alarming rate.  A new report by that group says that in a twenty-year period ending in 2012, more than 30 million acres of farmland [Read More…]

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, cattle futures closed lower.  The lack of direction from the cash cattle trade, softer wholesale values, and concerns over a heavy cattle supply are all contributing to the sluggish cattle [Read More…]

  Across the Corn Belt, rain is maintaining a slow pace of planting progress in parts of the upper Midwest. In contrast, dryness has begun to develop in the southwestern Corn Belt, where topsoil moisture [Read More…]

DowDuPont continues to look for a buyer of its cellulosic ethanol plant in Iowa. The plant, which was heralded as the biggest cellulosic ethanol plant in the world, has been closed since last November. A [Read More…]

Tom Steever will be on the ground for The Missouri Dairy Association Summer Classic on Friday June 8 at Gunter Farms at Conway. Continue reading The Missouri Dairy Association Summer Classic at Brownfield Ag News. [Read More…]

The Executive Vice President of the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association says an amendment that’s been approved by the Missouri legislature is good for Missouri cattlemen and all of agriculture, “The legislation just clarifies DNR’s regulatory authority [Read More…]

    A mandatory animal identification program is showing its merits as part of national disease outbreak preparedness exercise in Michigan. Michigan state veterinarian Dr. James Averill tells Brownfield Michigan is the only state that [Read More…]

Commentary. John Perkins, the Commodity Market Reporter for Brownfield was on the telephone when I walked past his desk in the newsroom Tuesday morning.  By the pained expression on his face it was clear that [Read More…]

  Average daily U.S. ethanol production hit a more than one-month high last week. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.040 million barrels a day, up 8,000 on the week and 36,000 on [Read More…]