Southern Indiana farmer Ben Kron says planters are still parked because of wet and cool conditions. “We’re finally getting some days around low- to mid-70s, but nighttime temperatures are still cool and a couple of nights ago we had a frost warning,” he says. Kron tells Brownfield things are looking up. “It looks like in the 10-15 day forecast nighttime lows are going to start moving up. That will help […]
Dairy farmers saw a slight increase in prices in 2020 while keeping milk production gains in check. The USDA reports 2021 milk production increased 1.3 percent to 226 billion pounds, while marketings were up 3.5 percent to $41.8 billion. Farmers earned an average of $18.54 per hundredweight during the year, up slightly more than two percent from 2020. Dairy economist Tanner Ehmke with CoBank tells Brownfield high feed costs continue […]
Soybeans were lower on profit taking and technical selling. Export sales were up on the week, but lower than average, and soybean meal was also down on profit taking. Soybean oil notched another round of highs on commercial buying linked to the tight globally of and strong demand for vegetable oils. Indonesia is restricting exports of both crude and refined palm oil and Ukrainian exports of sunflower oil have all […]
Following hearings in both the US House and the Senate on the price imbalance in the cattle markets, there are still a lot of questions that remain unanswered. After more than 9 hours of hearings that spanned two days, Ethan Lane with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says what happens next is still unclear. “We know they’re planning to mark up the Special Investigator bill, versions of it, on both […]
Brownfield’s Larry Lee will be in Lodi, Wisconsin May 5, 2022 for the Wisconsin Beef Council & Wisconsin Cattlemen’s Association tour. ...
Southern Ohio farmer Greg Corcoran says spring fieldwork is underway despite cool conditions. “It’s been wet on and off, but mostly cold. We haven’t had that temperature rise where we would like to see,” he says. “We’ve been able to apply 90 percent of our anhydrous. Dryer stretches, even though they were cold, allowed us to put a lot of our inputs in that we typically do ahead of planting.” […]
A farmer in west-central Iowa began planting this week. Brent Johnson of Manson says field conditions are pretty good despite less-than-ideal weather. “But just in the last couple days we’ve really started making some headway as far as getting some fields planted and worked up, and things are working really well. Just looking for some rain in our part of the state.” Speaking to Brownfield this Thursday morning, he says […]
A half-inch of rain quickly ushered a north-central Iowa farmer back to the sideline after beginning planting Wednesday. Andy Coombs farms with his father near Rowan and Dows and says this spring has been cool and wet with soil temps yet to reach 50 degrees consistently. “We decided to take a gamble and put a little (seed) In the ground, kind of the mentality of having to start sometime (and) […]
Cargill says its Black Farmer Equity Initiative has created additional markets and strengthened America’s food supply chain. James Monger, DE&I Champion for Agriculture Supply Chain with Cargill, says the program addresses shortfalls for markets, capital and information. “Black farmers don’t want a handout. They just want access. They want equal access. That’s all they want. In order to have equal access in their eyes, they want to be able to […]
