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Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Will Robinson will cover the Agricultural Business Council of Kansas City Ag Outlook Forum September 26, 2022 in Kansas City, Missouri. ...

Valent BioSciences is expanding its Osage, Iowa facility to be able to meet customer needs. Plant manager Ertan Hyuseinov tells Brownfield there’s been a rise in demand for the company’s biorational products. “Just to help our site to be more organized, more efficient, and more successful,” he said. “The success of the plant leads to success of the people and of the overall company.” He says the project includes a […]

Missouri Soybean Bio Fuels and New Uses Director Matt Amick discusses how Missouri growers are positioned to capitalize on growing international soybean demand. Matt says we rely on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers that give us great advantages down to the gulf. Learn more at mosoy.org. Brought to you by Missouri’s soybean growers and their checkoff. ...

Retail prices for beef and pork are well above year-ago levels.  In fact, for beef, they’re up more than 10% year-over-year and for pork, they’re up more than 11% from 2021. University of Missouri livestock economist Scott Brown says that doesn’t mean there aren’t good buys at the grocery store. AUDIO: Healthy Living on consumer buying habits ...

Smithfield Foods says it’s closing its only California hog processing plant due to the rising cost of doing business in the state.  Smithfield vice president of corporate affairs Jim Monroe tells Brownfield, “Certainly, higher taxes, utility costs including electricity, natural gas, water, etc., again significantly higher per-head cost in California than other Smithfield locations.” AAnd, he says California’s regulatory climate was also something Smithfield took into consideration. “Prop 12 introduced […]

Pig farmers have seen a sustained period of strong market prices, but also an ongoing stretch of higher input costs. Livestock economist Dr. Steve Meyer with Partners for Production Agriculture says while the market outlook remains unpredictable, there’s a good chance input prices will keep trending up. ...

Across the Corn Belt, cooler-than-normal weather accompanies a variable cloud cover.  Early Friday, a few showers dot the middle and upper Mississippi Valley.  Friday’s Midwestern high temperatures will remain mostly below 80°F, maintaining a relatively slow pace of summer crop germination and growth.  U.S. corn emergence, at 78% on June 5, remains slightly slower than 2011 and 2013, when 79% of the crop had emerged on that date. On the […]

Maple syrup production was up this spring in the key production states.  Michigan producers used 570-thousand taps to produce 190-thousand gallons of syrup, up 40-thousand gallons from 2021. Wisconsin had 920-thousand taps which yielded 440-thousand gallons of syrup this spring. The top producing states are Vermont, New York, and Maine with Wisconsin ranked 4th and Michigan ranked 6th.  Overall, the U.S. producers made more than five million gallons of maple […]

Corn and soybean farmers are encouraged to start planning for mid and late season insect pressure now. Ruhiyyih Dyrdahl-Young with BASF says a lesson reinforced by the pandemic is plans are often necessary. “If we get (to) midseason, and we notice that pests have shown up, we’re kind of already behind the gun. So one of the things I think is really essential as I think about the season is […]