Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Amie Simpson will be on the ground in West Lafayette on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 for the Indiana Soybean Alliance’s Student Soybean Innovation Competition. ...
Widespread cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza have the poultry industry fearing an outbreak more devastating than 2015. Minnesota Board of Animal Health senior veterinarian Dr. Shauna Voss says high-path avian flu is being seen in wild birds, commercial poultry, and backyard poultry in many different states. “So now is the time as birds are migrating north that all of our producers need to be on alert.” She tells Brownfield […]
Valent USA Vice President of Sales Dion McBay says his company is helping farmers ‘find their fierce fit’.Listen to Brownfield’s interview with McBay from Commodity Classic below. Dion McBay Interview ...
When it comes to managing those tough to control weeds, starting clean and staying clean is crucial. In this Managing for Profit, Frank Rittemann with Bayer talks about the benefits of TriVolt, an up-and-coming herbicide that is expected to launch for the 2023 growing season. ...
Another mode of transportation is back in service for U.S. commodities and products. The Army Corps of Engineers reports the Motor Vessel W. Red Harris with a tow of barges broke a channel through the ice on Lake Pepin Monday and headed upstream through Lock and Dam #3 at Red Wing, Minnesota, officially starting the 2022 river navigation season. The Harris has already departed St. Paul with a tow of […]
A small meat processor says he’d like to apply for the USDA’s latest grant program, but the application process is too burdensome. Charlie Emswiler with Wahoo Meat Locker in Nebraska said there are a lot of stipulations connected to the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program announced last month. “It’s almost not feasible for the small processor in the amount of time they gave you,” he said. “By the time […]
The second case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed in Nebraska, this time on a commercial broiler flock in Butler County. Steve Wellman is Nebraska’s Director of Agriculture. “There are about 570,000 broilers on that location,” he says. “USDA and the Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) are working with the owners and the producers there to depopulate the site and to control the spread of the disease.” The […]
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were lower waiting for direct cash trade to develop. The cattle on feed report comes out on Friday. It was a quiet Tuesday for direct cash cattle trade activity. Asking prices were at $140 to $142 live in the South, while the North remained quiet. With Cattle on Feed numbers coming out on Friday, it could be late in the week […]
An egg market analyst says highly pathogenic avian influenza is adding insult to injury for US egg producers. Brian Moscogiuri with Eggs Unlimited says for the last two years US egg producers have faced multiple challenges making profitability even more difficult. “In terms of investing in their farms to comply with pieces of state legislation for cage-free,” he says. “Obviously you had the pandemic and had the surge in buying […]
