The USDA says Ohio farmers rushed to plant during last week’s warm and sunny conditions. Eighty-five percent of the state’s corn crop is planted, and 65 percent has emerged. Seventy-one percent of soybeans are planted. Forty-seven percent of the crop has emerged. Ninety-nine percent of the winter wheat crop is jointing, and 86 percent is headed. Sixty-one percent of the crop is rated good to excellent. Ninety-nine percent of oats […]
Record high diesel prices are having rippling effects throughout the ag industry. “We are back to setting new records for the price of diesel on a near daily basis,” said GasBuddy’s Patrick De Haan. De Haan tells Brownfield the national average hit $5.63 per gallon on Monday, and that a diesel shortage could be looming. “A refinery kink or a hurricane could disrupt that very much last-minute delivery of things […]
A Midwestern farmer is fine-tuning his soybean growing strategy. Western Missouri’s Cody Brock said he keeps targeting earlier soybean planting dates because of its hardiness in cool, wet soils. Brock said he started planting soybeans in April, a week ahead of corn which is unusual for his area. But he tells Brownfield some loss from early planting could actually mean better production. “They’ll compensate if you do end up with […]
Milk futures were up sharply and cash dairy prices were mostly up on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Monday. June Class III milk was up $0.13 at $24.46. July closed down $0.47 at $25.07. August closed up $0.56 at $24.98. September was up $0.36 at $24.74. October through May contracts ranged from eight cents higher in April to thirty-five cents higher in October and November. Dry whey was unchanged at $.5575. […]
Wisconsin has lifted some restrictions on moving poultry that were in place to prevent spreading avian influenza. Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection spokesman Kevin Hoffman says the last three zones for restricted movement in Barron County have been released as of Monday. The state still has a special order in place prohibiting poultry exhibitions and other movements where birds can comingle Flocks in 14 counties have tested positive […]
Across the Corn Belt, a broken line of showers is slowing final corn and soybean planting efforts from the Great Lakes region to Missouri. Meanwhile, cool but dry weather favors late-season planting (as field conditions permit) for a variety of crops—including corn, soybeans, sugarbeets, and spring wheat—in the Red River Valley of the North. On the Plains, blazing heat prevails across much of Texas, where Monday’s high temperatures could reach […]
An education and technical assistance organization for organic farmers has changed its name. The Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service or MOSES is now called Marbleseed. In a statement, Marbleseed says after more than thirty years, they are in the awkward position of being the victims of their own organic education success, claiming consumer demand for organics has increased by double-digits but market capture by industrialized food and farming means […]
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or below-normal temperatures in the Pacific Northwest and from the middle and upper Mississippi Valley into the Northeast, while hotter-than-normal conditions will prevail across the Deep South and from California to the Plains. Meanwhile, near- or below-normal rainfall across most of the country should contrast with wetter-than-normal weather in the Pacific Northwest and from the Great Lakes […]
Although fertilizer prices are high, a market expert says prices have moved down on several products. Josh Linville with StoneX tells Brownfield the shift in the market has been unexpected. “This has been a little shocking. All of the sudden, now we have got urea almost half price from its high back in March, and phosphate values have fallen off several hundred dollars and we’re watching things like anhydrous and […]
