Iowa Corn Growers vice president Denny Friest of Radcliffe says the Association continues to fight on behalf of farmers as fertilizer prices escalate. He tells Brownfield they’ve written the International Trade Commission about foreign tariffs and met with Iowa’s Attorney General, who is generating Midwestern support. ...
Understanding the biggest issues for Ohio soybean farmers is crucial to agriculture’s success in the future. In this Voice of Soy, Kirk Merritt, executive director for the Ohio Soybean Council talks about how checkoff dollars help producers understand the issues that matter. ...
In this episode of Missouri Corn Talk Don Nikodim, Executive Director of the Missouri Pork Association, highlights their partnership with Missouri Corn including their efforts to support legislation impacting both corn and pork producers as well as projects to expand corn-fed pork in the state. ...
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures throughout the central and eastern U.S., except along the middle and northern Atlantic Coast. Cooler-than-normal conditions will prevail in the West. Meanwhile, near- or above-normal precipitation across much of the country should contrast with drier-than-normal weather from the lower Great Lakes region into the Northeast, as well as an area stretching from California to […]
An eastern Wisconsin farmer continues to fine-tune his cover cropping plan. Dan Brick from Brickstead Dairy Farm near Greenleaf tells Brownfield he began cover cropping after visiting farmers in Pennsylvania about six years ago who were already doing it. “We’re kind of a low-input type on our operation here already. I don’t have much invested in equipment. Our goal was to be able to use the cover crops in replacing […]
South Dakota farmers made little planting progress last week, but are still running behind the average pace. The USDA says four percent of the state’s corn is planted, 22 percent behind last year and 13 percent behind the five-year average. Only one percent of soybeans have been planted, running seven percent behind last year and near four percent average. Forty-eight percent of the spring wheat is planted with 12 percent […]
Many ag economists believe the farm economy to be shrouded in uncertainty. One of them is Pauline Van Nurden with the University of Minnesota. “We certainly have good crop prices, (but) the question is ‘how much have farms prepaid? And what inputs do they have locked in?’ Feed prices aren’t going to go down for our livestock producers. So I think there’s a lot of uncertainty.” She tells Brownfield marketing […]
A northeastern South Dakota farmer is one of many farmers waiting for better planting conditions. Ryan Wagner farms more than 45-hundred acres in the Roslyn area and says he’s a little behind where he’d like to be as May begins. “In early May, we would love to have had all of our spring wheat in by now and at least off to a good start on corn, and we just […]
The drought in Kansas mostly held steady last week allowing for widespread planting. The latest crop progress and condition report from USDA says winter wheat fell to 25 percent good-to-excellent. Sixty-seven percent of the crop has jointed, 10 percent has headed. Thirty-five percent of corn is planted with eight percent of the crop emerged. Soybeans planted reached 11 percent last week, ahead of 10 percent from last year. Sorghum planting […]
