U.S. export sales were mixed during the week ending April 21st. The USDA says soybeans, wheat, and pork all bounced back last week, while corn and beef posted week-to-week declines, with all of those below average, seeing some impact from the recent rally in the dollar. A higher dollar makes U.S. goods more expensive to foreign buyers and less competitive on the export market. The USDA’s next set of supply […]
Rising prices and supply chain challenges are impacting food banks. Vince Hall is with Feeding America. Healthy Living: Click here for more information. ...
As spring fieldwork picks up, a farm group and extension educators are reaching out to motorists to make roads safer. Cheryl Skjolaas Cheryl Skjolaas is the Agricultural Safety and Health Specialist with the University of Wisconsin Extension. Skjolaas tells Brownfield she is working with Wisconsin Farm Bureau, creating a safety video showing some of the dangerous situations that happen with passenger vehicles and farm implements. “We really want to help […]
Utilizing a fungicide can help farmers control crop diseases, improve crop health and ultimately boost yields. In this Managing for Profit, Lynn Justesen, UPL Tech Services Lead says farmers need consistent performance from their fungicide to provide more robust disease control with both preventative and curative activity. ...
I’m going to pick up some big plastic tanks that will be used to hold fertilizer if we buy one Transport load of fertilizer it is cheaper and if we watch the markets in different times of the season fertilizer is cheaper so we’re hoping this will save us some money in the long run.
Apparently our dog Annie was pregnant! Also more progress on the new nursery barns and cutting new door holes in the sow barn.
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After a great trip down to Lely to see our robots get put together, we're back home and ready to unload them! Big question though is will they even fit through the garage door?!?
In the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, farmer Yuri is getting ready for a day's work ploughing fields. Before setting off, he puts on a bulletproof vest and a ballistic helmet. Since the Russian invasion on February 24, farming in this area near the frontlines has become a high-risk profession, but farmers like Yuri are determined to continue working in a sector vital to the Ukrainian economy.
