September 9, 2024

Harvest is starting to progress in Illinois. According to the latest crop progress and conditions report from the USDA, corn is rated 75 ​percent good to excellent with 82 percent dented, 40 percent mature, and 2 percent harvested. Soybeans are ​rated 70 percent good to excellent, with 35 percent dropping leaves and one percent harvested. […] The post Promising harvest start in Illinois appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Dry conditions continue to negatively affect Ohio crops. According to the latest crop progress and conditions report from the USDA, corn is rated 49 ​percent good to excellent with 95 percent in the dough stage, 78 percent dented, and 28 percent mature. Soybeans are ​rated 47 percent good to excellent, with 30 percent dropping leaves. […] The post Dry conditions negatively affecting Ohio crops appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A southeastern Indiana farmer says harvest has started near Evansville. Ben Kron says he tested the waters over the weekend. “We’ve got a little bit done in the fields,” he says. “We went ahead and got some of the bugs worked out that we had here and there and going out at full on today.” […] The post Harvest has begun in Indiana appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Dec. corn closed at $4.07 and 1/4, up 1 centNov. soybeans closed at $10.18, up 13 centsOct. soybean meal closed at $320.70, down 10 centsOct. soybean oil closed at 41.07, up 86 pointsDec. wheat closed at $5.68 and 1/2, up 1 and 1/2 centsOct. live cattle closed at $176.92, up $1.75Oct. feeder cattle closed at […] The post Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: September 9, 2024 appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Soybeans were higher on fund and technical buying. Dry weather in parts of Brazil could lead to planting delays or even reduced acreage. Stateside, the USDA says 65% of U.S. soybeans are in good to excellent shape, unchanged on the week, with 97% of the crop at the pod setting stage and 25% dropping leaves, […] The post Soybeans see solid gains, corn firm appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Tennessee fields are continuing to dry out and push crop development. USDA says corn condition is rated 45 percent good to excellent with 97 percent in the dough stage, 93 percent dented, 76 percent mature, and 31 percent harvested. Cotton in the state has 57 percent of bolls opening.  USDA says the crop is rated […] The post Tennessee soybeans starting harvest appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Another mostly-dry week allowed Wisconsin farmers to get into fields to finish up small grain harvesting, cut hay, and dig potatoes.  Several farmers were also cutting hay and doing some fall seeding last week. Over 90% of Wisconsin’s corn is now in the dough stage, with 50% of it in the dent stage, about a […] The post Farmers get a lot of field time during dry Wisconsin week appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The 2024 U.S. corn harvest is officially underway. The USDA says 5% of the crop is harvested as of Sunday, just ahead of the five-year average, with most of that in southern growing areas. 95% of corn has reached the dough making stage, 74% has dented, and 29% is mature, with 64% of the crop […] The post 5% of U.S. corn crop harvested appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A dairy economist says that last couple of months have been better for dairy farmers who sell into the Class III market.  Chuck Nicholson with the University of Wisconsin tells Brownfield there has been some strengthening of cheese prices, because of lower cheese stocks. “We’re down about 9% actually compared to this time last year, […] The post Some improvement in Class III milk prices appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story