Arkansas crops are entering their next stages of development. The USDA reports as of Sunday 1% of corn is silking, 1% of cotton has reached the squaring stage and 23% of soybeans are blooming. The corn crop is rated 57% good to excellent, with cotton at 83%, peanuts at 92%, rice at 62%, and soybeans at 59% good to excellent. Winter wheat harvest is underway at 14% complete with […]
New legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would remove the wolf from the endangered species list. Senator Tammy Baldwin’s Northern Great Lakes Wolf Recovery Act would develop a regional-specific plan to delist the gray wolf in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The legislation would create an advisory committee comprised of members representing agriculture, Native and Tribal communities, heads of impacted-state agencies, and wolf management experts and […]
Weather turned hot and dry in Kentucky as planting continues across the state. Corn is 97% planted, with 86% of the crop emerged, and 72% rated good to excellent. Soybeans are 80% planted, with 65% emerged and 78% rated good to excellent. Winter wheat is 60% coloring with 87% of the crop rated good to excellent. Sixty-four percent of the tobacco crop has been set and 85% is rated good […]
Wisconsin’s crops are nearly all planted, with most of the crops emerging. USDA statistician Greg Bussler says 76% of the state’s corn has emerged and 97% of the planting is finished. The dry weather has the crop condition down ten points, with only 72% of the corn in good to excellent condition. Sixty-nine percent of the state’s soybeans are reported as good or excellent, with 62% emerging and 94% of […]
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. […]
