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Brownfield’s Larry Lee will be in Lodi, Wisconsin May 5, 2022 for the Wisconsin Beef Council & Wisconsin Cattlemen’s Association tour. ...

Southern Ohio farmer Greg Corcoran says spring fieldwork is underway despite cool conditions. “It’s been wet on and off, but mostly cold. We haven’t had that temperature rise where we would like to see,” he says. “We’ve been able to apply 90 percent of our anhydrous. Dryer stretches, even though they were cold, allowed us to put a lot of our inputs in that we typically do ahead of planting.” […]

A farmer in west-central Iowa began planting this week. Brent Johnson of Manson says field conditions are pretty good despite less-than-ideal weather. “But just in the last couple days we’ve really started making some headway as far as getting some fields planted and worked up, and things are working really well. Just looking for some rain in our part of the state.” Speaking to Brownfield this Thursday morning, he says […]

A half-inch of rain quickly ushered a north-central Iowa farmer back to the sideline after beginning planting Wednesday. Andy Coombs farms with his father near Rowan and Dows and says this spring has been cool and wet with soil temps yet to reach 50 degrees consistently. “We decided to take a gamble and put a little (seed) In the ground, kind of the mentality of having to start sometime (and) […]

Cargill says its Black Farmer Equity Initiative has created additional markets and strengthened America’s food supply chain.  James Monger, DE&I Champion for Agriculture Supply Chain with Cargill, says the program addresses shortfalls for markets, capital and information. “Black farmers don’t want a handout. They just want access. They want equal access. That’s all they want. In order to have equal access in their eyes, they want to be able to […]

More than 140,000 acres of agricultural land have burned in a Western Corn Belt state from wildfires since the beginning of April. The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency says fires in more than 15 counties were reported in different areas of the state with many occurring simultaneously. The agency says the two largest fires combined to burn nearly 80,000 acres in Furnas and Gosper Counties. The Road 739 fire burned 35,000 […]

Adverse conditions are limiting fieldwork in southeast Minnesota. Red Wing area farmer Les Anderson says soils remain wet and cool. “Not very nice conditions, and of course the soil temperature is a big one as far as corn planting. I haven’t done any measurements, but with air temperatures this cold and freezes overnight basically, it’s not good conditions for planting corn.” He tells Brownfield a year ago corn planting was […]

U.S. export sales were mixed during the week ending April 21st. The USDA says soybeans, wheat, and pork all bounced back last week, while corn and beef posted week-to-week declines, with all of those below average, seeing some impact from the recent rally in the dollar. A higher dollar makes U.S. goods more expensive to foreign buyers and less competitive on the export market. The USDA’s next set of supply […]

Rising prices and supply chain challenges are impacting food banks. Vince Hall is with Feeding America. Healthy Living: Click here for more information. ...