A Wisconsin man is proof that growing up on the farm isn’t necessary to love farming. 34-year-old Bob Nash from Ozaukee County Wisconsin isn’t your everyday dairy farmer. Nash tells Brownfield his full-time job is with the county’s highway department, but he spends evenings and weekends milking cows and helping at Golden E Dairy because he is passionate about the dairy industry. Nash says his interest in agriculture started when […]
A new study highlights consumer knowledge and perception of carbon farming. Healthy Living: And, the survey found that millennials and people in urban areas agree that farmers and ranchers participating in carbon programs are helping reduce climate change. Click here for more information. ...
The soybean complex closed mostly lower with some spread adjustments in deffered soybean contracts. Nearby contracts continue to trade lower following USDA’s estimated record 91 million U.S. soybean acres for this growing season. Expected soybean ending stocks are also driving the market downward. Lower moves for crude oil this week have added downward pressure for soybean oil. Private Brazilian soybean production estimates are continuing to fall, giving U.S. soybeans more […]
Two more Iowa counties are joining the list of places highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship says the virus has been detected in a flock of commercial layer chickens in Osceola County and in a commercial turkey flock in Cherokee County. The latest cases, both in northwest Iowa, bring the total statewide to 12. Flock owners are encouraged to prevent contact […]
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle and feeder cattle were mostly lower watching corn and the end of the week clean-up direct cash cattle trade. June live cattle closed $1.27 lower at $135.85 and August live cattle closed $1.17 lower at $136.90. May feeder cattle closed $.42 lower at $166.12 and August feeder cattle closed $1.22 lower at $176.35. It was a quiet Friday for direct cash cattle trade […]
The CEO of Minnesota Pork expects some pork producers to take a “wait and see” approach now that the Supreme Court plans to hear the case on Proposition 12. David Preisler tells Brownfield it’s not a “slam dunk” the Court will side with the National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau. “So I don’t know that pork producers would necessarily change anything that they already have, (but) there may […]
Through the weekend, several minor disturbances will result in widespread but generally light precipitation in several regions, including the Plains and Midwest. By early next week, however, a complex storm system will become better organized across the western and central U.S. Heavy precipitation may fall in the Pacific Northwest, while a low-pressure system will intensify across the nation’s mid-section. By Tuesday, dry weather will return across the Northwest, while windy, […]
May corn closed at $7.35, down 13 and 3/4 centsMay soybeans closed at $15.82 and 3/4, down 35 and 1/2 centsMay soybean meal closed at $450.00, down $17.50May soybean oil closed at $71.20, up 126 pointsMay wheat closed at $9.84 and 1/2, down 21 and 1/4 centsApr. live cattle closed at $138.65, down 72 centsMay lean hogs closed at $113.17, down 40 centsApr. ...
The soy checkoff has released a report highlighting environmental achievements made by U.S. soybean growers.Mace Thornton, vice president for communications and marketing with the United Soybean Board, discusses the U.S. Soy Sustainability Overview report. “We know that over the years U.S. soy farmers have really made tremendous progress in sustainability. Between the years 1980 and 2020, conservation efforts have skyrocketed. The efficiency of land use has increased about 48 percent […]
