Jul. corn closed at $6.17 and 1/4, up 13 centsJul. soybeans closed at $13.72 and 3/4, down 13 and 3/4 centsJul. soybean meal closed at $397.40, up 20 centsJul. soybean oil closed at 53.98, down 61 pointsJul. wheat closed at $6.33 and 3/4, up 3 and 1/2 centsJun. live cattle closed at $179.07, up 85 centsAug. feeder cattle closed at $239.05, up 5 centsJun. ...
Missouri lawmakers passed a bill to charge a person with felony if they hinder a transfer of livestock. The offense would be a class E felony for the first time and a class C felony for any subsequent offenses. Representative Brenda Shields from St. Joseph says loads of hogs were being tampered with in a hog processing plant in her district. “They would slow down or stop the truck, throw […]
The Biden administration is investing more than $700 million to expand affordable, reliable high-speed internet to rural communities. White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu says it will help improve economies and remove connectivity issues for producers. “In agricultural communities, high speed Internet can transform farming practices, enabling farmers to use more sustainable data-driven approaches to precision agriculture. Farmers need fast, reliable service that allows them to send data up as […]
A technical service representative with BASF says dry conditions are causing farmers to rely on post-emergence herbicides for weed control. Jared Roskamp, based in Missouri, tells Brownfield pre-emergence herbicides didn’t always activate. “That made the early strategy of weed control a little more erratic. Some areas got enough rain where pre-emergence herbicides are holding really well and other fields didn’t get enough rain until later and there are weeds popping […]
The U.S. International Trading Commission has expanded its tracking of tart cherry juice imports to help growers better analyze the impact on the domestic industry. Head of the Cherry Marketing Institute Julie Gordon tells Brownfield the organization tried to bring a trade case against dried cherry importers dumping into the U.S. in 2019 but lost because of product commingling and coding issues. “We figured out that there were multiple different […]
It’s been a busy seed corn planting season for Beck’s, the largest family-owned retail seed company in the United States. Brownfield Ag News was recently on the ground at the company’s headquarters in Atlanta, Indiana, for a tour and update from Production Location Agronomist Darin Lucas. “We have scouts out in the field right now checking in on some of our first planted corn, doing some post herbicide applications, and […]
Harvest is underway in the nation’s largest winter wheat producing state and expectations are extremely low. “It’s going to be one of those years that will be referenced in history as far as the number of acres that won’t go to harvest.” Kansas Wheat CEO Justin Gilpin says combines just got rolling near the Oklahoma border before many farmers were rained out. “It’ll really be next week before we get […]
An ag meteorologist says there is limited amount of rain in the short-term forecast for the western and central parts of the Midwest. Drew Lerner with World Weather Incorporated says the next round of meaningful rain will come this weekend. “It will debut in the eastern Dakotas and western Minnesota on Friday morning. As we get into the weekend, the frontal boundary will march from west to east across the […]
An ag economist says ag groups should also prioritize funding for market development as the 2023 Farm Bill debate continues. University of Missouri’s Scott Brown building new markets is costly. He says while producers might not see immediate returns, those investments are critical in growing global trade. “It’s probably more important than that dollar of direct payments that they might be getting at times,” he says. “You’re trying to grow […]
