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During the next few days, back-to-back storm systems will cross the nation from west to east.  The initial storm, currently centered over the middle Mississippi Valley, will reach the Northeast by mid-week.  The trailing system should reach the middle Mississippi Valley early Friday, before crossing the middle Atlantic Coast on Saturday.  Five-day rainfall could total 1 to 3 inches or more from the eastern Plains into the southern Corn Belt […]

Avian influenza continues to affect Wisconsin poultry producers.  The Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection says the state is now up to 12 affected premises, with four of them larger-scale farms. Last Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, four new premises were affected with two in Barron County, one in Oconto County, and one in Fond du Lac County.  One of the new Barron County sites is a commercial farm with […]

Diesel fuel can be added to the list of input costs reaching record-highs for farmers. GasBuddy’s Patrick De Haan tells Brownfield the national average reached $5.32 per gallon Monday. “The average price in Iowa has jumped from about $4.85 to $5.23 a gallon in the last week alone,” he said. De Haan says an inventory shortage is fueling the rapid price surge. “Inventories have plummeted to their lowest levels since […]

Iowa Corn Growers vice president Denny Friest of Radcliffe says the Association continues to fight on behalf of farmers as fertilizer prices escalate.  He tells Brownfield they’ve written the International Trade Commission about foreign tariffs and met with Iowa’s Attorney General, who is generating Midwestern support. ...

Understanding the biggest issues for Ohio soybean farmers is crucial to agriculture’s success in the future. In this Voice of Soy, Kirk Merritt, executive director for the Ohio Soybean Council talks about how checkoff dollars help producers understand the issues that matter. ...

In this episode of Missouri Corn Talk Don Nikodim, Executive Director of the Missouri Pork Association, highlights their partnership with Missouri Corn including their efforts to support legislation impacting both corn and pork producers as well as projects to expand corn-fed pork in the state. ...

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures throughout the central and eastern U.S., except along the middle and northern Atlantic Coast.  Cooler-than-normal conditions will prevail in the West.  Meanwhile, near- or above-normal precipitation across much of the country should contrast with drier-than-normal weather from the lower Great Lakes region into the Northeast, as well as an area stretching from California to […]

An eastern Wisconsin farmer continues to fine-tune his cover cropping plan.  Dan Brick from Brickstead Dairy Farm near Greenleaf tells Brownfield he began cover cropping after visiting farmers in Pennsylvania about six years ago who were already doing it. “We’re kind of a low-input type on our operation here already. I don’t have much invested in equipment. Our goal was to be able to use the cover crops in replacing […]

South Dakota farmers made little planting progress last week, but are still running behind the average pace. The USDA says four percent of the state’s corn is planted, 22 percent behind last year and 13 percent behind the five-year average. Only one percent of soybeans have been planted, running seven percent behind last year and near four percent average. Forty-eight percent of the spring wheat is planted with 12 percent […]