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Nine Ohio agricultural groups have released recommendations to modernize the Ohio Expo Center and State Fair. The groups are sharing recommendations to be considered as the Ohio Expo 2050 Task Force develops its long-term vision for the Ohio Expo Center, the home of the state fair.   Ty Higgins is the senior director of communications and media relations with Ohio Farm Bureau. “Since the economic impact of our agirulcutre industry […]

Missouri Governor Parson has signed a supplemental budget bill into law that includes funds for school food programs. The bill allows for current operations of state government to continue through fiscal year 2022 and includes 219 million dollars for school food programs. ...

Mar. corn closed at $6.95, up 11 and 1/4 centsMar. soybeans closed at $16.61 and 1/2, down 13 and 1/2 centsMar. soybean meal closed at $464.90, down $6.20Mar. soybean oil closed at 72.00, up 128 pointsMar. wheat closed at $9.26, up 50 centsApr. live cattle closed at $142.30, down $2.45Apr. lean hogs closed at $105.52, down $2.50Mar. Class III milk closed at $22.51, up 49 centsApr. ...

Limited availability of certain herbicides could make cover crop termination more difficult this spring. Angie Rieck-Hinz is a field agronomist with Iowa State University Extension. “If glyphosate is really hard to get your hands on, what can we do to manage that cover crop? Can we reduce that glyphosate rate and (still) get that adequate termination? It’s possible.” She tells Brownfield the cover crop needs to be actively growing to […]

A Michigan poultry producer says the industry is focused on what it can control as more cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza are reported. Rick Sietsema tells Brownfield in 2015 H5N1 hit the Indiana/Kentucky region pretty heavily and producers have adapted to deal with outbreaks. “It’s a part of the environment that we work in,” he says. He says his farm is dedicated to the controllables including maintaining the highest […]

Soybeans were sharply lower on profit taking and technical selling. It was an up and down day, with beans seeing spillover from a lower move in bean meal. March beans were limit up overnight but saw a reversal on that profit taking in bean meal and the fairly bearish numbers from the U.S. Ag Outlook Forum. That reversal in bean meal came despite record domestic prices in China due to […]

The drought in parts of the Western Corn Belt is intensifying and a climatologist says the 90-day outlook doesn’t look promising.    Brian Fuchs is with the National Drought Mitigation Center. “We start getting into April and May, we see our precipitation numbers really start jumping and we would hope normal precipitation would be enough to change that drought status but those outlooks that are going through the end of […]

Senate Ag Committee Ranking Member John Boozman tells Brownfield the U.S. needs to work with allies to punish Russia for its attack on Ukraine and agriculture is likely to take some hits. He expects possible sanctions on Russian oil to have a ripple effect across the globe. “This could very well make oil prices remain at a very high rate which affects fertilizers, it affects the input costs of the […]

The American Soybean Association has named a new executive director of its World Initiative for Soy in Human Health program. Gena Perry is currently the global strategy project director of WISHH and will be promoted as director on February 28th. ASA director and WISHH Chair Gerry Hayden, a Kentucky soybean grower, says Perry is uniquely qualified to grow WISHH’s role in connecting global trade and development and is already growing […]