Agriculture

The Illinois Conservation Management Program has released new data highlighting conservation efforts by more than 400 farmers in the state. Laura Gentry with the Illinois Corn Growers Association tells Brownfield the Business Case for Conservation summarizes their findings since the program began in 2015.  She says 2022 data continues to show that farmers who follow the University of Illinois suggested Maximum Return to Nitrogen Rate (MRTN) are most profitable. “And […]

The USDA has projected domestic beef consumption to decline for both 2023 and 2024.  David Widmar with Agricultural Economic Insights says that could spell trouble for the cattle industry and the overall farm economy.  “We have less pounds of beef being demanded or utilized by consumers and it’s going for lower price,” he says.  “That means it’s lower revenues, lower calf prices, lower cow prices, lower passenger rent, lower passenger […]

Some Wisconsin FFA members are learning mechanical skills by restoring old tractors. Advisor Matt Reinders has been the agricultural instructor at Edgar for the past nine years and taught at Loyal for nine years before that.  His classes have been restoring old tractors the entire time. “I do have some students that have been around this stuff but I also have some students that have never turned a wrench, really, […]

Across the Corn Belt, a compact, slow-moving storm system centered near Lake Erie is resulting in cool conditions and beneficial showers in portions of the eastern Lakes States.  Wednesday’s high temperatures will remain below 80°F in Michigan and portions of neighboring states.  Meanwhile, warm, dry weather prevails west of the Mississippi River.  On June 11, Midwestern topsoil moisture rated very short to short ranged from 35% in North Dakota to […]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across the central one-third of the U.S. and the Deep South, while cooler-than-normal conditions will cover the West and the middle and northern Atlantic States.  Meanwhile, near- or above-normal rainfall across most of the country should contrast with drier-than-normal weather in the upper Great Lakes region and much of the south-central U.S. ...