A day on our sheep farm involves many daily routines centered around feeding and branching out to sheep care, sheep interactions, and sheep health. Today, I elaborate on aggressive ram behaviour as put to me by a viewer and followed up with further explanations and triggers to watch out for when working with rams. We also get to look at our lambs' growth from a new perspective and interact with […]
Photo courtesy NASDA The Biden administration has announced its pick to fill a key trade role at the USDA. The White House announced Alexis Taylor as their nomination for Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. Ag groups welcomed Friday’s announcement and have pressed the administration to fill the role, which has been vacant since President Biden took office. National Corn Growers Association says Taylor is the perfect person for […]
A meteorologist says farmers can expect a wide range of weather across the Midwest again this week. Soulje says this week east of the Mississippi River looks just like last week. Soulje expects the western plains to have many of the same wet and dry areas as last week. Soulje tells Brownfield with these air patterns, the weather extremes are probably going to be around a while. ...
The National Farmers Union is encouraged by steps taken by the Biden administration to confront supply chain problems and rising input costs. NFU vice president of advocacy Mike Stranz tells Brownfield President Biden’s announcement to expand double cropping insurance and invest in domestic fertilizer production comes at a time of unprecedented disruptions. “There’s a lot going on right now in the supply chain, and some of these moves will help […]
Farmers disheartened by planting delays can take comfort in this summer’s warm weather outlook. Wyffels Hybrids agronomy manager Eric Wilson says they’ve been looking at the impact Growing Degree Units have on corn development. “Does timing of planting correlate to where that final yield falls in accordance with trendline? And what we’ve found is it doesn’t necessarily matter.” He tells Brownfield there have been early planting dates that don’t yield […]
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle closed mostly lower, adjusting spreads. Feeder cattle were mostly higher on the day’s lower move in corn. It was a mostly quiet Friday for direct cash cattle trade activity, with just some scattered trade reported fully steady with the week’s business. For the week, live deals in the South had a range of $137 to mostly $140, steady with the previous week’s business. […]
A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants the FDA to use dairy standards of identity when forming labeling guidelines for plant-based milk alternatives. In a recent letter to the heads of the Food and Drug Administration and the Office of Management and Budget, the Representatives say the FDA has not enforced dairy standards of identity for decades which has led to nutrition misinformation. The group points to studies that reflect consumer […]
