Agriculture

Across the Corn Belt, warm, dry weather favors fieldwork, including corn and soybean planting, as well as winter wheat development and summer crop emergence and growth.  However, smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to drift southward, mainly in the upper levels of the atmosphere, contributing to hazy, filtered sunshine. On the Plains, widely scattered showers are occurring from Kansas southward.  Recent and ongoing showers across the central and southern Plains have […]

A public hearing will be held Tuesday on one of the biggest ag-related budget requests in Wisconsin.  The Senate Committee on Transportation and Local Government will take testimony on four bills.  One of them is Senate Bill 247, the proposed agricultural roads improvement grant program. Wisconsin’s coalition of agriculture groups supports the bill, as do key budget writers Senators Joan Ballweg and Howard Marklein on the Joint Finance Committee.  The […]

A central Wisconsin farmer wishes he could plant more soybeans, but he’s sticking to his original plan.  John Eron farms in heavy clay west of Stevens Point, Wisconsin.  He’s planting corn as planned because it’s too late for him to switch over to soybeans. “We’d like to just because of the markets crashing, and we have a lot more success with beans here, but the problem we run into is […]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and precipitation across most of the country.  Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to the southern Atlantic States, California, and the Desert Southwest. Meanwhile, drier-than-normal weather should be limited to an area stretching from the central Gulf Coast to portions of the Great Lakes and Northeastern States. ...

Enlist field specialist Scott Jungmann says unlike some other herbicides, Enlist does not have a calendar cutoff date, which he calls a great advantage. He tells Brownfield there are some application requirements growers should know, including growth stage for soybeans and utilizing the proper nozzles. ...

The USDA says that as of the week ending May 18th, U.S. wheat export inspections are in-line to meet projections for the current marketing year. The 2022/23 marketing year started June 1st, 2022 for wheat and September 1st, 2022 for corn, sorghum, and soybeans. The USDA’s next set of supply and demand estimates is out June 9th. Wheat came out at 407,682 tons, up 144,243 from the week ending May […]

As the soybean growing season advances, Missouri Soybeans Agronomy and Research Director Eric Oseland says it’s important to scout fields to determine what post emergent herbicide applications are needed. Oseland says scouting fields throughout the season is important so that weeds are kept under control and that late season pests and diseases are treated to avoid yield damage and economic losses. Learn more at mosoy.org. Brought to you by Missouri’s soybean […]

Some farmers in the Western Corn Belt continue to manage drought conditions while other regions have had some improvement from recent rainfall. “I don’t know how long the dryland will be able to hold on because it is quite literally like powder.” Eastern Nebraska farmer Mitch Oswald says he’s been irrigating fields almost six weeks ahead of schedule to help recharge the soil profile. “(My dad and I) have been […]