October 4, 2024

The Michigan Bean Commission Executive Director says solid prices heading into harvest have been beneficial to dry bean growers. Joe Cramer tells Brownfield, “Mexico’s drought gave us an opportunity to move a lot of product into that export world, and so our values came into this harvest is pretty strong values,” he explains. “Our contract […] The post Dry beans offer profitability amid low commodity prices appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Beck’s has acquired a research facility in Nebraska to further enhance its plant breeding program. President Scott Beck tells Brownfield… “Our company’s been expanding to the west for a number of years now and we recently built a distribution site there at Goehner. So this will give us additional facilities and additional storage and additional […] The post Beck’s acquires Nebraska site to enhance plant breeding and research appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The agriculture industry is stepping up to help Western North Carolina following the destruction of Hurricane Helene.   A group of ag drone pilots are assisting in the rescue, recovery, and relief efforts in western North Carolina.  Emily Cave and her husband Preston farm in Surry County, about 3 hours northeast of Asheville, one of […] The post Ag drones being used in Hurricane Helene rescue and recovery appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Across the Corn Belt, scattered sub-freezing temperatures were noted Friday morning in the far upper Midwest, mainly from eastern South Dakota into northern Minnesota.  The cool weather is not expected to have a significant effect on maturing summer crops, as 81% of South Dakota’s soybeans were dropping leaves by September 29, while South Dakota’s corn […] The post A wide-range of temps across the Heartland; generally favorable harvest weather for most appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Across the Corn Belt, cooler air is overspreading the upper Midwest, while warm, dry weather covers the remainder of the region.  Friday’s high temperatures will approach or reach 90°F in parts of Missouri.  On September 29, Minnesota led the Midwest with 35% of its soybean acreage harvested, ahead of the 5-year average of 27%.  Meanwhile, […] The post A wide-range of temps across the Heartland; generally favorable weather for most appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and near- or below-normal precipitation across much of the country.  Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to the eastern U.S., excluding southern Florida. Meanwhile, wetter-than-normal weather should be limited to Florida, southern Georgia, and an area stretching from northern and […] The post Late-season warmth, heat and largely dry ahead still ahead for much of the Heartland appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and near- or below-normal precipitation across much of the country.  Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to parts of the eastern U.S., mainly from Georgia to New England. Meanwhile, wetter-than-normal weather should be limited to northern Maine; portions of the […] The post Lste-season warmth, heat and largely dry ahead still ahead for much of the Heartland appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story