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Wisconsin’s 75th Alice in Dairyland will be selected in Dane County this year.  Selection Committee member Jill Makovek was Wisconsin’s 60th Alice and tells Brownfield so many people think of Dane County for the capitol city and Madison being the hub of politics, the four lakes around Madison, and the conventions, but there’s more. “Two-thirds of the county is agriculture and that encompasses about half a million acres of farmland […]

Brownfield’s Cyndi Young talks with Jackie Applegate, President of Bayer Crop Science North America, about the innovation taking place at Bayer. ...

Drake Copeland, Technical Service Manager with FMC serving eastern Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, tells Brownfield environmental changes will impact how diseases enter the cropping system.  He says growers need to tailor applications of fungicide specifically for each of “the filthy five” diseases that have a huge economic impact on corn acres.   Conversation with Drake Copeland, FMC: ...

Corteva Agriscience market development specialist Joe Bolte says there are several layers to effective weed management in soybean fields, beginning with a burndown application. He tells Brownfield farmers should follow up with timely pre and post-emergence applications that include multiple modes of action and extended residual control. ...

National School Breakfast Week just wrapped up and it highlighted the importance of a nutritious school breakfast in helping students succeed. Healthy Living: Click here for more information. ...

The USDA is extending application deadlines for the Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities program. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says “there is a lot of interest in this and producer groups who are putting together proposals wanted just a little more time. They asked for about a 30-day extension on submissions and so we agreed to do that.” Speaking during Commodity Classic, he said the deadline for larger-scale projects, ranging from […]

An expert at the Center for Dairy Research says the recently announced additional funding for the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives will help farmers and processors develop new products and reach new markets.  Tom Guerin tells Brownfield the 80-million dollars from the American Rescue Plan will be divided between Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, and California.  He says the roughly 20-million-dollars going through the University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research will impact […]

At the annual Commodity Classic, Missouri Soybeans, along with four other state soybean boards, rolled out a strategic study on the future of soy. Missouri Soybeans CEO Gary Wheeler says this study identifies a path for future opportunities through five major areas, including fuel markets and alternative proteins. Wheeler says that a similar study is planned this year with a laser focus on serving Missouri soybean growers in the next […]

Kansas and Illinois are the latest states where highly pathogenic avian influenza has been confirmed by the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. HPAI has been detected in a backyard mixed-species poultry flock in Franklin County, Kansas, and a non-commercial backyard flock (non-poultry) in McLean County, Illinois.  Birds from both flocks have been depopulated. Samples from the Kansas flock were tested at the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratory and […]