The USDA expects farmers to plant more soybeans and less corn in 2022. Matt Bennett with AgMarket.Net tells Brownfield the Prospective Plantings report showed corn acres down 4 percent and soybean acres up 4 percent from 2021. “There’s no question that this corn situation has changed after this report into a more friendly tone. Need to buy acres potentially as far as swing acres whereas soybeans it’s basically the polar […]
The USDA says demand slowed for corn and soybeans, and rose for wheat during the first quarter of the year. Corn stocks on March 1 totaled 7.85 billion bushels, up 2% year over year, close to pre-report expectations. Soybean were pegged at 1.93 billion bushels, up 24% from March 1, 2021, higher than expected. Wheat stocks on March 1 were at 1.02 billion bushels, down 22% from last year, below […]
A seed sales representative says he’s noticed some regional and national trends for seed purchases heading into the 2022 growing season. Brian Hackbarth sells LG Seeds in northeastern Wisconsin and upper Michigan. He tells Brownfield, “Industry-wise, there’s more beans going in than there is corn.” Hackbarth says his farmer clients are trying to cut input costs and take advantage of the higher soybean prices. Hackbarth says many in the industry […]
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Seed World Group - Drones have become a part of our daily lives over the past decade. People use them as toys to take pictures and some industries have started using them for work. In agriculture, drones have become popular, but are they being used to their full potential? On Seed Speaks we’ll be talking with John Scott from Purdue University and Progeny Drone Inc.’s Anthony Hearst about how the […]
Rachel Boucher of the University of Waterloo and Dustin Mulock of Kawartha Cover Crops discuss the science and practical applications of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agriculture. This video was originally presented as part of the 2022 Northern Ontario Ag Conference.
Excessive rain has already pushed back planting start dates for farmers in southern Illinois. Daryl Cates farms in the Mississippi River bottoms of Columbia, Illinois. He tells Brownfield he had considered getting planters out in early April, but they’ve received more than 4 inches of rain in the past week. “If we had not got this rain, I was thinking we would have tried to start next week. Now, they […]
