A dairy economist says the latest USDA dairy reports don’t add up. Nate Donnay with StoneX says when analyzing the total number of milk components produced in February’s production report compared to dairy product production numbers, there’s a gap. “The biggest anomaly here is on the cheese production—58 million pounds higher than forecast, up 6.3 percent from last year,” he says. Donnay says that miscalculation could come from late reporting […]
The Michigan Department of Agriculture has confirmed the first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the Upper Peninsula. A backyard flock in Menominee County along the Wisconsin border was detected with an isolated case the virus. It’s the third confirmed case in domestic birds in the state. The department is encouraging backyard and commercial poultry owners to use extreme caution and follow strict biosecurity measures to protect their animals […]
President Biden is expected to lift summertime restrictions on E15 during a stop in Iowa today. The White House says the President will speak this afternoon at a POET ethanol plant west of Des Moines about steps the administration is taking to lower energy costs. Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor anticipates Biden to lift what she calls “outdated restrictions” on E15 for the 2022 summer driving season, saying the move […]
Across the Corn Belt, warm weather prevails in advance of an approaching storm system. Tuesday’s high temperatures will reach 70 to 80°F or higher throughout the southwestern Corn Belt, extending northward into parts of Iowa and eastward into Illinois. Meanwhile, rain showers are spreading across the upper Midwest. On April 10, topsoil moisture rated surplus ranged from 40 to 60% in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan, keeping fieldwork at a […]
In this episode of Missouri Corn Talk Marc Rauch, Executive Vice President of The Auto Channel, highlights common myths about ethanol, benefits of the fuel to the auto industry and the important role corn farmers play in the ethanol industry. ...
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for below-normal temperatures nearly nationwide. In fact, warmer-than-normal weather will be confined to Florida’s peninsula. Meanwhile, below-normal precipitation in the western and central U.S. should contrast with wetter-than-normal conditions in the East. ...
Minnesota farmers are continuing to deal with wet and muddy fields as the snow continues to melt in some regions. USDA reporters say only a couple of hours were suitable for fieldwork all week. The snowmelt has helped recharge soils, as both topsoil and subsoil are rated 67% adequate, with 23% of topsoil having surplus water. A weather system also dumped more than five inches of rain in a small […]
Spring weather continued to slow Wisconsin’s farmers down last week. USDA reporters say up to a foot of new snow fell in northern Wisconsin and the rest of the state had a mixture of flurries and rain. Rainfall ranged from around two-tenths of an inch in western Wisconsin to nearly 3 inches near Superior and north of Green Bay. About the only field activity reported last week was some manure […]
The drought across Nebraska intensified last week as man farmers wait to start planting. Lexington farmer Don Batie tells Brownfield he usually starts planting corn in mid-April. “It’s so cold and so dry even our lawns haven’t greened up and the alfalfa hasn’t greened up. It’s one of those years no one is going to push to get started this year,” he says. “I’m guessing it’s going to be the […]
