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The CEO of the National Pork Producers Council says foreign animal diseases like African Swine Fever are a top priority for the nation’s pork producers. Bryan Humphreys tells Brownfield that also includes work toward regionalization, which would help reduce trade disruptions if a foreign animal disease were detected in the US. “As we work toward that, we have a joint industry group working tougher here to address all the things […]

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the administration to allow year-round sales of E15 to help combat rising domestic energy costs and reduce reliance on foreign energy sources. Senator Sherrod Brown says “the best lesson here is we have to broaden our energy production and that means more E15 fuel.” The Ohio democrat tells Brownfield it’s critical to expand the availability of U.S. biofuels following the import ban on […]

USDA officials are highlighting the importance of farm bill funding to help build a more resilient food system. Under Secretary Jennifer Lester Moffitt testified on ways the USDA is supporting specialty crop supply chains during Tuesday’s House Ag subcommittee’s hearing on horticulture and urban agriculture in the farm bill. “It’s building more community capacity for producers to be able to supply local and regional markets, it’s building the community networks, […]

The CEO of the Missouri Corn Growers Association says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has further underlined the need for energy security and diversity in the US. Bradley Schad tells Brownfield, “In a world where energy security matters more than ever, we need all the help we can get, and there is no better resource than the American corn farmer producing ethanol made right here in the United States.” He says […]

A bipartisan group of senators has revamped a piece of legislation that they hope will ensure more price transparency in the cattle markets. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley tells Brownfield the latest version keeps regional cash trade requirements but adds more regions across the U.S. to include all cattle producers. “To make it national is a move in the right direction.” Under the updated Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, USDA will […]

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and precipitation across much of the country. Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to western Washington and an area stretching from the mid-South to the mid-Atlantic, while drier-than-normal weather should be limited to northern and central California and the northern Great Basin. ...

Across the Corn Belt, chilly weather lingers, especially in the Great Lakes region. However, warmth is starting to overspread the southwestern Corn Belt, including much of Missouri and Nebraska. On the Plains, beneficial but patchy precipitation (rain and snow) is spreading across Montana, where topsoil moisture was rated 96% very short to short on March 28. Meanwhile, warm, windy, dry weather from western Texas to central Kansas is creating a […]

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