The USDA says cheese and butter production declined in April. That followed a year-to-year decline in milk production and an increase in domestic cheese stocks in the monthly cold storage report. Total cheese production was 1.156 billion pounds, down 4.5% from April 2021, with a 5.5% drop in Italian type cheeses to 489.041 million and a 1.8% decrease for American type cheese at 465.415 million. Butter production dropped 10.3% to […]
Kellan Heavican will be on the ground in Lincoln on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 for Weathering Uncertainty: Conversations about Climate in Nebraska, presented by Humanities Nebraska at the Lied Center For Performing Arts, Lincoln. ...
An agronomist for crop science company Verdesian says adding a bacteria to soybean fields yearly can help growers increase production to match growing biofuel and renewable diesel demand. “This relationship has existed for thousands of years,” said Kurt Seever. “It will always work.” Seever tells Brownfield meeting the growing soybean demand might push more farmers to plant continual soybeans which could impact a key group of bacteria microorganisms called rhizobia […]
Milk futures and cash dairy prices were mixed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Friday. June Class III milk was up $0.01 at $24.33. July closed down $0.13 at $24.60. August closed down $0.07 at $24.42. September was up $0.02 at $24.38. October through May contracts ranged from twenty-six cents lower in November to thirty-four cents higher in May. Dry whey was up $.0025 at $.5575. One sale was recorded at […]
Michigan ag officials are alerting farmers after finding a bovine tuberculosis-infected deer in a new area. Dr. Mike Vanderklok is with the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. He says, “We have a core area where TB has been kind of found endemicly in the free-ranging white-tailed deer in northeastern lower Michigan, and occasionally we will find a TB-positive deer outside of that area, and that did happen.” Vanderklok […]
A Midwestern farmer is trying something new this growing season to capitalize on strong crop markets. Brownfield’s Will Robinson has more. “You can’t save your way to prosperity but you can spend your way broke,” said western Missouri corn and soybean grower Cody Brock. Brock tells Brownfield there’s a lot of money in fields right now which pushed him to use starter fertilizer while planting corn. “Just trying to see […]
A Western Cornbelt farmer says he has to see ag trade reopen from Ukraine before he believes it. Missouri farmer Cody Brock is taking his home state’s motto of ‘show me’ to heart. “I’d be shocked if Putin turns loose of that grain,” he said. “If he actually has control of it.” He tells Brownfield even though grain markets took steep losses earlier this week/early last week, his mindset is […]
The American Farm Bureau Federation says more producers are turning to a seasonal foreign worker program to help alleviate a tight labor market. “We are really at a crisis level with our ag workforce shortage.” Director of Government Affairs Allison Crittenden says there’s been an increase in applications for H-2A visa program even though it’s not always farmer friendly. “Any of our dairy farmers, livestock, year-round greenhouse operations and mushrooms, […]
Across the Corn Belt, cool conditions are slowing evaporation rates in areas—mainly across the far upper Midwest—where fields remain too wet for an optimal planting pace. Widespread temperatures below 40°F were reported Friday morning in the Dakotas and northern Minnesota. However, sunny weather in other areas of the Midwest is fostering the emergence of recently planted corn and soybeans. On the Plains, showers linger across parts of Oklahoma and Texas, […]
