In an already challenging spring season, farmers might be facing higher fuel prices as an added stressor. Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council’s chairman Kyle Durham says that the use of renewable, soy-based biofuels can help alleviate these issues. Durham also says that biofuels are a continued investment in farmers’ success and build domestic energy infrastructure. Learn more at mosoy.org. Brought to you by Missouri’s soybean growers and their checkoff. ...
Multiple wildfires have burned more than 130,000 acres of agricultural land in a pair of Western Corn Belt states. “It’s going to be very difficult to raise a crop where this fire touched for the next several years.” Southwest Nebraska farmer Jan TenBensel says one started in Kansas and moved north into Nebraska Friday night burning about 130,000 acres – including 2,000 acres of his property. “I’ve lost a little […]
Brownfield’s Cyndi Young receives her Honorary State FFA Degree at Missouri FFA’s Convention along with Missouri Department of Agriculture director Chris Chinn. Congratulations to both women. ...
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were mixed on position squaring ahead of Friday’s On Feed numbers from the USDA. The report, overall, looks bearish. June live cattle closed $1.47 lower at $138.42 and August live cattle closed $1.20 lower at $140.37. May feeder cattle closed $.97 lower at $163.87 and August feeder cattle closed $.45 higher at $176.90. It was a quiet Friday for direct cash […]
A South Dakota farmer says it’s dry, but they’re planting small grains. Mike Cronin’s family farms near Gettysburg in central South Dakota. He says his son wrapped up planting small grains Thursday. “We’ve got, I don’t know, probably 18-hundred acres of spring wheat in and then he was going to plant about 400 acres of oats.” Cronin says there is some hope for rain in the forecast. “It looks like […]
With more unfilled jobs than available workers, employers in the ag sector are taking their recruiting on-campus. Mariah Giraud Mariah Giraud is an employment specialist with Synergy Cooperative in northwestern Wisconsin. She tells Brownfield students can finish the semester and go into sales, driving, or a number of other opportunities. “We’re always a little short on staff, especially seasonal positions. That’s always harder to fill, getting somebody to come out and […]
The USDA’s latest Cattle on Feed report is extremely bearish, with both On Feed totals and Cattle Placed well outside the top-end of pre-report expectations. University of Missouri’s Scott Brown says that could lead to a very interesting last half of the year. “Drought has certainly made us want to place cattle in feedyards earlier than normal,” he says. “It makes me wonder, are we going to run out of […]
A cattle producer in southwest Iowa is struggling to find help. Seth Watkins of Clarinda says finding people who want to work in agriculture isn’t easy right now. “Finding help for anyone isn’t easy, so that’s on the top of my mind.” He tells Brownfield he’s doing everything he can. “Right now the biggest is just constantly communicating (to find) people who maybe have a job in town but like […]
The second day of the Missouri FFA Convention took place Friday in Columbia. Day two of the Missouri FFA Convention kicked off with a trade show where FFA students are getting the chance to explore career opportunities. St. James FFA student Elijah Barnett, who was attending the career fair, tells Brownfield his FFA chapter has grown his interest in pursing veterinarian medicine… “It taught me different breeds of animals; different […]
