The dry conditions across Missouri continue to show up in the crop condition ratings in USDA’s latest Crop Progress and Conditions report. USDA says Missouri’s pasture conditions are rated 20% good to excellent with hay supplies at 38% adequate, both declining from the previous week. Corn conditions are rated 46% good to excellent, also a decline from the previous week. Soybean conditions have declined slightly at 48% good to excellent […]
Soybeans were lower on profit taking and technical selling, unable to hold onto the session’s early gains. Forecasts are mixed this week, with the potential for rain in some dry portions of the Midwest. The trade was also getting ready for the first national soybean condition rating of the season. The USDA says 91% of U.S. soybeans are planted, compared to the five-year average of 76%, and 74% has emerged, […]
New reports from American Farmland Trust outline conservation priorities for the 2023 Farm Bill. Conservation and Climate Policy Manager Samantha Levy tells Brownfield, “In addition to making recommendations to continue to support NRCS programs, we’re looking to create a new program in the farm bill to provide some matching funding for state and tribal soil health programs that fit that bill and fill the gaps.” The organization says with $100 […]
Isolated rain and scattered reports of replanting headline the latest weekly crop update for Iowa. The USDA says the replanting of corn and soybeans was limited, and that nearly all planting activities are finished. Corn emergence is more than a week ahead of the five-year average, but the condition of the crop declined five percentage points on the week to 72 percent good to excellent. Soybeans are 87 percent emerged, […]
The USDA says excellent conditions spurred corn and soybean planting progress last week in Indiana. Ninety-seven percent of the state’s corn crop is planted, 85 percent of the crop has emerged, and 62 percent is rated good to excellent. Soybean planting is 95 percent complete. Seventy-eight percent of the crop has emerged and is rated 62 percent good to excellent. The fist cutting of alfalfa hay is 85 percent complete. […]
Corn and soybean condition ratings are beginning to drop in Illinois. The USDA reports as of Sunday the corn crop is rated 50% good to excellent, down 19 percentage points on the week and soybeans are rated 51% down 12 points, as a majority of the state battles drier than average conditions. Rob Schaffer of El Paso tells Brownfield most of his corn and soybean acres in McLean and Woodford […]
Farmers nearly completed planting last week in Ohio. Ninety-five percent of the state’s corn crop is planted, 80 percent of the crop has emerged, and 64 percent is rated good to excellent. Soybean planting is 94 percent complete. Seventy-four percent of the crop has emerged and is rated 65 percent good to excellent. The fist cutting of alfalfa hay is 83 percent complete. The first cutting of other hay is […]
Continued dry weather is starting to impact crop emergence and conditions in Michigan. Corn Marketing Program of Michigan Director of Research and Agronomy Kristin Poley tells Brownfield there’s no rain forecasted until at least the weekend. “And if we don’t get any rain and emergence continues to happen, we expect that to be a little bit spotty in places, especially where there is less moisture due to soil texture and […]
Farmers in southwest Minnesota are replanting after recent heavy rains. Mike Landuyt of Walnut Grove says a storm dumped five inches a day after he finished corn planting. “I ended up having to do some replanting on the corn. The beans that we had in before that rain, we thought there was going to be some issues, but they eventually made it through and the spots seemed to fill in.” […]
