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Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for near- or below-normal temperatures across much of the country, with the greatest likelihood of cool conditions focused on the Great Lakes States.  However, warmer-than-normal weather will prevail from southern California to the central and southern Great Plains.  Meanwhile, near- or below-normal precipitation should be observed nationwide, except for wetter-than-normal conditions from the northern Cascades to western North Dakota. ...

Across the Corn Belt, rain showers are gradually ending across the Ohio Valley and the lower Great Lakes region.  Elsewhere, extensive fieldwork delays continue, despite the brief return of mild, dry weather.  Thursday’s high temperatures will reach 70°F or higher across much of the southern Corn Belt.  To date, planting activities have been sharply limited by low soil temperatures or wet fields, or a combination of both, especially in the […]

A research project might soon bring some color to the calf barns and help farmers know when their animals need some extra attention. Dr. Sylvia Kehoe Dr. Sylvia Kehoe is a dairy researcher at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.  She tells Brownfield her team is just starting a new project evaluating calf urine as an indicator for metabolic acidoses, like what is being done to indicate health issues in a […]

Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Larry Lee will be on the ground in Greenleaf on April 27, 2022 for the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Rural Road Safety & Ag Sustainability Day. ...

A new report is tracking consumer food spending and more. Healthy Living: The latest Consumer Food Insights Report from Purdue University has found that food demand, so far, is price insensitive. Click here for more information. ...

From palmer amaranth to waterhemp, pigweeds are some of the most challenging weeds for farmers to control. In this Managing for Profit, Kip Jacobs, UPL Tech Services Manager shares how herbicide applications with PREVIEW leaves farmers with cleaner fields and cause less injury than other methods. ...

Two farm organizations and a Wisconsin business group are pushing back against what they call an illegal local ordinance against large farms. Venture Dairy Cooperative and the Wisconsin Dairy Alliance are working through the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Litigation Center.  They have sent a letter to the Polk County Town of Laketown for over-regulating concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFO’s. The letter to Laketown’s clerk says their ordinance contains at […]

The director of plant foods for MFA Incorporated is urging caution on issuing sanctions against Russian fertilizer exports. Chris DeMoss tells Brownfield Russian fertilizer exports are already down sharply, and sanctions on fertilizer exports would further threaten global food production… “No one’s willing to take a vessel to get loaded, really,” DeMoss said. “Because it’s just risky.” He said Russia, and neighboring Belarus, produce more than a third of the […]

Food and agriculture exports in Michigan hit a record $2.5 billion in 2021. Jamie Zmitko-Somers with the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development tells Brownfield despite logistical issues, sales were up nearly 20 percent. “This is another record year over last year,” she says. Processed food products made up the highest total value of exports; followed by soybean, sugarbeet, and wheat byproducts; dairy products; wood products; and edible meat […]