Agriculture

An ag retailer has announced it will build a state-of-the-art specialty products plant in Eastern Nebraska to help serve growers in the Upper Midwest. BRANDT’s 10,0000 feet facility based in Aurora will produce the full line of specialty ag products and technologies, like BRANDT Smart System, BRANDT Manni-Plex and BRANDT EnzUp, once it’s online in the fall of 2024. The Advanced Ag Formulations plant will join Brandt’s other manufacturing facilities […]

On this week’s episode, Brownfield’s Brent Barnett monologues about his successful 2023 spring turkey hunt. He was able to harvest his first-ever public land gobbler. AUDIO: Brent Barnett’s First Public Land Turkey ...

The U.S. has reported an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in a beef cow approximately five years old or older at a slaughter plant in South Carolina.  The animal never entered slaughter channels and at no time presented a risk to the food supply or to human health in the U.S. The radio frequency identification tag present on the animal is associated with a herd in Tennessee.  APHIS […]

April U.S. milk production was three-tenths of a percent higher than a year ago.  USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service says production was at 19.2 billion pounds of milk.  The 24 major milk-producing states had production rise half a percent, accounting for 18.4 billion pounds of milk in April. USDA also revised the March production figures to 19 billion pounds, a tenth of a percent more than originally estimated. Production per […]