July 15, 2024

Ohio farmers continue to battle dry conditions across much of the state. According to the latest crop progress and conditions report from the USDA, corn is rated ​67 percent good to excellent with 34 percent silking. Soybeans are ​rated ​64 percent good to excellent, with 40 percent blooming. Winter wheat is 97 ​percent harvested. The […] The post 97% of Ohio winter wheat harvest complete appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Warm and dry weather led to a slight decrease in crop ratings in Wisconsin last week. The USDA says as of Sunday 58% of corn is rated good to excellent, down 4% from the previous week. Seventeen percent of the crop is silking, six days ahead of 2023. Soybeans are rated 56% good to excellent, […] The post 58% of Wisconsin corn, 56% of soybeans rated good to excellent appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Heavy rain and localized flooding brought widespread challenges for many Michigan farm fields last week. Lenawee County farmer Jim Isley tells Brownfield he’s actively scouting and spraying if necessary because of increased disease pressure. “Our greater issue for us is probably the vomitoxin the corn,” he says. “We had a lot of vomitoxin last year, […] The post Wet weather drops crop conditions appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A Purdue University agronomist says recent heavy rainfall could potentially impact corn growth and yield. Dan Quinn says Hurricane Beryl benefited parts of the state that were already showing signs of drought. “Coming into this rain we had you know large portions of the state that were either in a D0 or D1 drought in […] The post Heavy rains could impact corn growth and yield appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

U.S. Senator Joni Ernst says she’s concerned about the continued cases of H5N1 Influenza A in dairy cattle. “If it passes onto dairy cattle, once that milk has been pasteurized we’re not seeing any cause for concern with the milk, but we need to do a lot more research.” The Iowa Republican tells Brownfield the […] The post Ernst, Iowa delegation ask USDA for updates on H5N1 research appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A leader with Chevron Renewable Energy Group says some upcoming renewable fuels policies will be critical to industry’s outlook. Paul Nees, general manager of global supply and trading, says the U.S. EPA needs to set higher Renewable Volume Obligation targets for 2026 and beyond. “While there has been quite a bit of growth already in […] The post Chevron REG outlines upcoming priorities appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Dairy farmers can now comment on USDA’s proposed changes to the Federal Milk Marketing Order. Some amendments include returning the Class I skim milk price to the ‘higher-of’ formula, adjusting milk composition factors, and raising the Class III and Class IV make allowances for cheese, butter, nonfat dry milk, dry whey, and butterfat recovery. American […] The post Milk order changes open to public comment appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Youth exhibitors and Missouri State Fair attendees will notice some changes this year. Director Jason Moore says there are 16 large scale improvement projects happening. One is the new arena which will break ground after the completion of this year’s fair. “I look at this building as kind of the gateway to where we’re headed in the future with […] The post 16 improvement projects coming to the Missouri State Fairgrounds appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Cash dairy prices started Monday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange with mixed activity and strong demand for butter. Dry whey down $0.01 at $0.50. One trade was made at that price. Blocks down $0.03 at $1.86. Five trades were made from $1.86 to $1.8925. Barrels up $0.0150 at $1.8650. Eight trades were made from $1.85 […] The post CME cash dairy prices mixed appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story