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A bipartisan group of senators has revamped a piece of legislation that they hope will ensure more price transparency in the cattle markets. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley tells Brownfield the latest version keeps regional cash trade requirements but adds more regions across the U.S. to include all cattle producers. “To make it national is a move in the right direction.” Under the updated Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, USDA will […]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and precipitation across much of the country. Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to western Washington and an area stretching from the mid-South to the mid-Atlantic, while drier-than-normal weather should be limited to northern and central California and the northern Great Basin. ...

Across the Corn Belt, chilly weather lingers, especially in the Great Lakes region. However, warmth is starting to overspread the southwestern Corn Belt, including much of Missouri and Nebraska. On the Plains, beneficial but patchy precipitation (rain and snow) is spreading across Montana, where topsoil moisture was rated 96% very short to short on March 28. Meanwhile, warm, windy, dry weather from western Texas to central Kansas is creating a […]

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In this episode of Missouri Corn Talk,  Missouri Corn Growers Association and Missouri Corn Merchandising Council CEO Bradley Schad highlights their goals toward national energy security, including the immediate need for E15 and supporting legislation like the Next Generation Fuels Act. ...

GrowNextGen ambassadors help educate others about today’s agriculture industry and how it connects to science. In this Voice of Soy, Jane Hunt, who leads the program, details why the program is important to the future of Ohio agriculture. ...