MOO’v is a high protein, low sugar beverage that delivers optimized nutritional benefits to kids. Dan Ellsworth is CEO of Dari, LLC. DARI LLC is a Midwest farmer-based food company with locations in Nebraska and Wisconsin. They are focusing on the delivery of functional foods to consumers through highlighting the nutritional value of real milk with traceability back to individual farms. AUDIO: Healthy Living on Moo’v ...
Across the Corn Belt, hazy conditions are due to rampant Canadian wildfires. Any showers are light and limited to the upper Mississippi Valley and Midwest. As a result, most of the Midwest continues to lose soil moisture due to evaporative losses and crop moisture demands. Cooler air is overspreading the Great Lakes region, but hot weather persists in much of the western Corn Belt. On June 4, topsoil moisture was […]
Lower crop prices played a role in the drop in farmer sentiment in the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer. Jim Mintert is the survey’s principal investigator and director of Purdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture. “If you look at commodity prices from when we collected data in April to when we collected data in May, depending on whether you’re looking at corn, soybeans or wheat, those prices were all […]
The National Milk Producers Federation has announced its president and CEO will retire at the end of the year. Jim Mulhern, a Wisconsin native, has led the organization for a decade and spent 45 years working in agricultural and dairy policy. The board plans to start work naming a new executive at its meeting this week. ...
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were up ahead of the week’s direct cash business. August live cattle closed $2.22 higher at $175.50 and October lives closed $1.92 higher at $178.25. August feeders closed $.65 higher at $243.25 and September feeders closed $.90 higher at $246.52. Direct cash cattle trade activity was relatively quiet. A few bids surfaced at $190 and $191 live in the North and […]
A U.S. Congressman says Mexico should have brought their cultural issues with biotech corn to negotiations in the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement process. Michigan Democrat Dan Kildee tells Brownfield he met with Mexico’s president earlier this year to discuss enforcement of the agreement. “I pressed him on this issue, and he went on a long monologue about the cultural aspects of this, but he kept coming back to the statement […]
Jul. corn closed at $6.08, up 10 and 1/2 centsJul. soybeans closed at $13.53 and 1/4, up 3 and 1/4 centsJul. soybean meal closed at $396.70, down $4.50Jul. soybean oil closed at 50.92, up 166 pointsJul. wheat closed at $6.27 and 3/4, up 3 and 3/4 centsJun. live cattle closed at $179.82, up $2.67Aug. feeder cattle closed at $243.25, up 65 centsJun. ...
As the US beef supply shrinks, the US Meat Export Federation is working to increase the value of US beef on the global market. During the Illinois Beef Association’s Annual Meeting in Springfield on Tuesday, John Herath with USMEF tells Brownfield drought and input prices have caused a decrease in US beef production. “And so we need to provide financial incentive for that production to come back. If there’s only […]
Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying. 62% of U.S. beans are rated good to excellent, a low first rating of the season, but with rain in the near-term forecast for some areas. While the critical month for soybeans is August, stress during these early stages of development likely cut at least some of this year’s yield potential. Spain bought 165,000 tons of old crop U.S. soybeans Tuesday […]
