Milk futures were lower and cash dairy prices were steady to lower Tuesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. May Class III milk was down $0.06 at $16.40. June was down $0.16 at $16.88. July was down $0.05 at $17.65. August was down $0.05 at $18.45. September through April contracts ranged from unchanged in January, February, and March to four cents lower in September. Dry whey was down $0.0150 at $0.3125. […]
Three lock and dam systems on the Illinois River will close for upgrades beginning June 1st. The Army Corps of Engineers will replace machinery, install upper miter gates and do electrical crossover work at the Brandon Road, Dresden Island and Marseilles locations, finishing out a three-part repair project that started in 2019. Jim Tarmann with the Illinois Corn Growers Association says farmers have had ample time to prepare, and the […]
A dairy farmer says farm labor is still a top concern. Pam Selz-Pralle tells Brownfield finding help for the farm is not easy. “When you’re seeing your local grocery stores and your local restaurants, they’re closing down because they don’t have labor but they can close down for a night. Our cows still have to get milked. Our crops still need to be harvested, so labor becomes a really big […]
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures in the lower Great Lakes region and the south-central U.S., while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail in the southern Atlantic States and northwest of a line from Arizona to Minnesota. Meanwhile, near- or below-normal precipitation throughout the North should contrast with wetter-than-normal conditions across much of the southern-half of the country. ...
Farm bill priorities were discussed during a roundtable discussion Monday in Wisconsin. Many of the top farm bill priorities are familiar. Nicole Wagner is with the Wisconsin Corn Growers Association. She tells Brownfield, “Protecting crop insurance, increasing MAP and FMD (Market Access Funding and Foreign Market Development) funding, making sure that conservation programs remain voluntary. Those are the top three.” Amy Penterman is a recent past President of the Dairy […]
In this week’s Missouri Corn Talk, Missouri Corn’s Associate Director of Market Development Lane Howard talks about growing demand for ethanol and year-round E15. ...
A change in the weather is amping up planting activity for some Michigan specialty crop farmers. Sixth-generation farmer Travis Fusilier tells Brownfield he’s thankful sporadic temperature changes the past few weeks haven’t caused crop damage. “We’ll be planting pretty heavily with more sensitive crops like summer squashes and tomatoes and peppers, we have confidence the weather has finally broke,” he shares. The family started a home delivery service just before […]
A satellite communications company believes it can help farmers better connect to equipment, people, and applications. Greg Malakoff, associate director of business development for Iridium Communications, says the company boasts the only network in the world that covers every inch of the Earth. “Anywhere anytime. So from those applications on the ground, being a sensor, an irrigation system, a combine, they are communicating over our satellite network to our ground […]
A northwest Tennessee farmer says his wheat crop has faced an uphill battle this year. David Nichols says from weather to marketing, it hasn’t been easy. “We had a really cold freezing event back in March after the wheat began to a joint,” he says. “We were borderline on some damage on some fields and possibly there’s some freeze damage there. And then we had a frost back a couple […]
