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The U.S. Foreign Ag Service says Australian milk production is expected to decline by four percent this year largely because of farm exits.  In its semi-annual report, the FAS office says labor shortages caused by the pandemic have led to some farms to transitioning to more to beef cattle production as the country experiences record beef prices.  Increases in land prices have also encouraged producer exits.  Australian milk prices are at record […]

Export sales for some key commodities popped higher during the week ending May 12th. China was back in the market after being out the previous week for May Day celebrations, but their demand was somewhat limited by COVID lockdowns and unloading delays, along general sales limitations from relatively high U.S. prices and the recent trend in the dollar. Corn, soybean, soybean meal, and cotton sales were up on the week, […]

The National Association of Wheat Growers is applauding USDA’s $6 billion of funding for disaster relief to farmers covering the 2020 and 2021 crop years. NAWG CEO Chandler Goule tells Brownfield the funding is coming at a critical time. “Especially after the severe droughts that we had last year and, of course, as we continue to deal with the current drought in our winter wheat areas right now; along with […]

Brownfield’s Kellan Heavican will be on site for the Summit Carbon Solutions Open House Friday, May 20, 2022 at Wood River, NE Community Center. ...

UPL’s OpenAg promise facilitates partnerships that can help advance new technologies to get them not the hands of farmers, faster. In this Managing for Profit, Natalie Hummel, UPL Head of Research and Development explains how OpenAg creates additional value for growers. ...

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says the proposed special investigator bill, that was marked up by the House Ag Committee on Wednesday, is a waste of resources.  NCBA’s Tanner Beymer tells Brownfield the new position authorized under the Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act would create a bureaucratic mess.  “They’re creating a new office in addition to one that already exists to enforce the very act this new office would […]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or below-normal temperatures across the northern half of the U.S., while hotter-than-normal conditions will stretch from California to the southern Atlantic Coast.  Meanwhile, near- or below-normal rainfall from California to the High Plains should contrast with wetter-than-normal weather in the Pacific Northwest and much of the eastern half of the country. ...

Rebecca Vittetoe with Iowa State University says cool conditions slowed growth this spring. An extension agronomist expects delayed pest pressure in alfalfa. “Usually when we put out our comment about now is the time that we could potentially start to see alfalfa weevils being active in fields based off of Growing Degree days, I couldn’t even use my sweep net in an alfalfa field because it was only 4 inches […]

The Biden administration says they continue to take steps to alleviate the pressure from rising fuel costs. From increasing access to E-15 to releasing oil from the strategic reserve, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says President Biden is accelerating efforts to lower fuel prices.  “Nobody wants to be under the thumb of a petro-dictator like Vladimir Putin,” she says.  “We clean, American, homegrown energy.” She tells Brownfield the administration is also […]