Missouri Ag Director Chris Chinn says farmers are not the best at de-stressing. In this Managing for Profit on Brownfield, Chinn – a family farmer herself – says it’s important to take time for yourself. She says farmers and ranchers “are probably the worst at making time for themselves.” Chinn and her husband Kevin are members of a family farming operation where she does the books on weekends. For women […]
NCGA CEO Jon Doggett gives a trade update during the 2022 Grain and Feed Association of Illinois Convention While there seems to be forward momentum from the Biden Administration on the trade front, the CEO of the National Corn Growers Association would like to see more. The USDA is currently abroad on their first in-person trade mission since the start of the pandemic. NCGA’s Jon Doggett tells Brownfield while that […]
It was a quiet Monday for direct cash cattle trade activity, especially with many observing the President’s Day holiday. Bids and asking prices have yet to surface. Look for the bulk of the week’s business to be delayed until midweek or later. At midsession, at the Oklahoma National Stockyards in Missouri, compared to last week feeder steers were $1 to $3 lower and heifers were $1 to $3 higher. Steer […]
