The CEO of GreenStone Farm Credit Services plans to retire this summer after more than 40 years of serving Michigan’s farm credit sector. Dave Armstrong’s career in farm credit began in the early 1980s when interest rates exceeded 20 percent and farms struggled to stay afloat. “I was the one who often had to deliver bad news and be there with those families through that—that was probably one of the […]
The USDA reports another mixed week for U.S. export sales. That’s due to several different factors including performance in the U.S. dollar against other major currencies, seasonal marketing trends, and competition from other exporters. For the week ending June 9th, pork, soybean product, and rice sales all saw week-to-week improvements, while beef sales dipped and old crop corn and soybeans fell below last week’s levels. The USDA’s next set of […]
Small grain development is severely lagging across much of the Upper Midwest. University of Minnesota Extension small grains specialist Jochum Wiersma says a cold, wet spring slowed planting. “It really felt like the first week of May as far as what the weather felt like, what the fields looked like (and) where the crop was at. Unfortunately, we were in the second week of June.” If it was a month […]
A state climatologist says weather extremes across the Corn Belt are a result of climate change. Nebraska’s Martha Shulski tells Brownfield those events will speed up over the next several decades. “We’re warming at an accelerating rate. We’re getting more heavy precipitation events and the frequency of extremes are getting faster.” She says weather patterns will alternate back-and-forth in quick succession and that could create significant issues for agriculture. “Wetter […]
Today’s Farmombile data collection is raising the bar – enabling growers to have a leg up on field-level crop visibility. In this episode, Steve Cubbage, vice president of data services for Farmmobile talks about how it can remove the guesswork from production costs and help growers maximize their return on investment. ...
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for near- or above-normal temperatures and near- or below-normal precipitation across most of the country. Areas likely to experience hotter-than-normal weather include the Plains, Midwest, mid-South, and Southeast, while cooler-than-normal conditions will be limited to the Northeast and the Northwest. Meanwhile, wetter-than-normal weather should be limited to the Four Corners region and across the nation’s northern tier from Washington to the Red […]
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The director of the Center for Dairy Research says he’s confident new chemicals and compounds made from dairy byproducts will be on the market soon. Dr. John Lucey says, “We are really pushing this here at the CDR as the next thing to look out for.” Lucey says the University of Wisconsin campus also has the Great Lakes Bio-energy Center, where they work on making biofuels from switchgrass and wood […]
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is launching a new awareness campaign to help prevent the introduction of African swine fever in the U.S. USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt says “Protect our Pigs” will support commercial pork producers, veterinarians, and pig owners with information and resources to help safeguard America’s swine population. Speaking to Brownfield at last week’s World Pork Expo, National Pork […]
