An Illinois farmer is trying to balance production costs for his cattle while capitalizing on strong grain markets. On this Managing for Profit, we’re joined by Robb Creasy who runs a diversified cattle, hog, and row crop operation in west-central Illinois. Creasy tells Brownfield working to best manage his cattle feeding bill while making the most of crop market opportunities is a challenge. Robb Creasy Managing for Profit ...
New product offerings give farmers more help controlling tough weeds, protecting against diseases, and maximizing yield potential. In this Managing for Profit, Asgrow brand manager Clint Chaffer talks about what’s on the horizon for the 2023 growing season. ...
Monitoring the crop during the growing season is crucial to a successful harvest and the farmers’ bottom line. In this Pods for Profit, Jason Fettig a technical agronomist for Bayer CropScience shares some tips for farmers during this growing season. ...
A Wisconsin farmer that is close to Lake Michigan is pleased with crop progress so far. Bob Nash from Saukville says the severe storms from a week and a half ago caused damage north of him, but he got about three inches of rain, and that has most of his neighbors out cutting second crop alfalfa hay now. “A lot of the neighbors are. A lot of the guys that […]
Some farmers are already doing the math on what it might cost to fuel harvest equipment. Tim Waibel grows corn and soybeans in south-central Minnesota and says one of his tractors has a 525-gallon fuel tank and burns about 35 gallons of diesel per hour. “On a big day, we run fuel out like at 6 or 7 at night, we’ve got a couple guys that like to work a […]
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were lower waiting for direct business to develop and the higher move in corn. August live cattle closed $.75 lower at $132.72 and October lives closed $.72 lower at $139.40. August feeder cattle closed $2.30 lower at $171.82 and September feeder cattle closed $1.85 lower at $174.95. It was a quiet Wednesday for direct cash cattle trade activity. Bids have been […]
The Biden administration announced a multi-million-dollar investment in the development of biobased products at a stop in Iowa on Tuesday. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says $10 million in grants from the bipartisan infrastructure law will help build a supply chain roadmap for the increased use of renewable agriculture materials. “It means basically taking everything that’s grown and raised and produced on a farm, and then turning it into something more […]
Farmers are encouraged to start looking for symptoms of common corn diseases. Corteva Agriscience market development specialist Jeff Moon says tar spot, northern corn leaf blight, and gray leaf spot could be seen across a lot of geographies this season. “There’s been a lot of discussion about tar spot the last few years, and that footprint that it’s in seems to be growing a little bit. It seems to really […]
Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Larry Lee will be on the ground in Loyal July 12-14, 2022 covering Wisconsin Farm Technology Days. ...
