National Nutrition Month is the annual campaign by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. It’s a month to encourage people to learn about making informed food choices and develop healthful eating and physical activity habits. This year’s theme is Celebrate a World of Flavor, embracing global cultures, cuisines, and inclusivity. Healthy Living: ...
In this IL Corn Connection Greg Goodwin, IL Corn’s Director for the Precision Conservation Management Program, highlights how corn farmers’ checkoff dollars are being matched or exceeded to leverage more funds for on-farm conservation work through the PCM program. For every $1 invested by Illinois corn farmers, an additional $5 is being matched from other supporters to fund the program. ...
A market analyst recommends using target orders to manage volatility. Angie Setzer with Consus ROI tells Brownfield a lot of big moves have been occurring during overnight trade. “There’s always this idea of let’s say $6.50 corn (as an example). Well do you want to put an order in? ‘No, I’ll watch it.’ And then what we tend to see happen is maybe $6.50 hits overnight and throughout the day […]
A farmer in southeast Minnesota suggests there aren’t many contingency plans for herbicide shortages. Brennen Toquam of Blooming Prairie says it sounds like some post-emergence products will be in short supply this year. “So if you can plan ahead and try to stay ahead of it that way and almost layer residuals that would be an okay plan, but you’re always going to have escapes. I mean, you can always […]
A market specialist says the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine means the market will be watching U.S. crop production very closely. Mike North is with ever.ag. He says, “The fact that Ukraine might not be planting a crop this spring because they’re at war, it really puts a lot of premium into our market because as a general rule we’re going to have to displace their lack of supply […]
February milk production fell 1% nationwide and seven-tenths of a percent in the 24 major dairy-producing states. USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service says total milk production was 17.5 billion pounds Milk production in the United States during February totaled 17.5 billion pounds with 16.7 billion of that produced in the major dairy states. February production per cow in the United States averaged 1,869 pounds, 1 pound above February 2021. The […]
Warm temperatures and drought conditions could force farmers in the Western Corn Belt to go on the offensive when it comes to weed control. UPL Tech Services Lead Lynn Justesen says farmers will need to plan, but they’ll have to be flexible. “We may not get second opportunities,” he says. “Whether it is an opportunity to get a pre-emerge out or if we don’t control something between our pre-emerge or […]
Persistent drought in the US was one cause of a significantly large mature sheep harvest in 2021, making the current US drought scenario top of mind for sheep producers. American Sheep Industry Association Executive Director Peter Orwick tells Brownfield earlier this month, several of their producer members met with the Farm Service Agency Administrator in Washington DC. “You could certainly tell by the interaction between the producers and the agency, […]
