December 26, 2024

Tractor Supply Company has announced its Paper Clover campaign helped raise more than $2.6 million for 4-H youth nationwide in 2024. The initiative, conducted in partnership with the National 4-H Council, is a biannual fundraiser that invites customers to purchase a paper clover at checkout in all Tractor Supply stores in the U.S. or online. […] The post Tractor Supply raises $2.6M for 4-H youth appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Commentary. When back home for Christmas, I revisited memories of growing up on the family farm in Scott County, Illinois. At the heart of many of those memories is the little house down the road from Mom and Dad’s where Grandma and Grandpa lived. Across the road from Young’s Cemetery where my relatives, dating back […] The post Work together to stop rural crime appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A product brand manager for AgriGold says research plot performance plays a critical role in developing new corn hybrids.  Steve Schany tells Brownfield, “It gives us an advantage that we can see in ground truth in a lot of these products and understand where they are performing and what things they are bringing to the […] The post Planting new corn hybrids with confidence appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Across the Corn Belt, cloudy, mild weather prevails, along with locally dense fog.  Patchy freezing drizzle in the northern and western Corn Belt is causing local travel disruptions.  Meanwhile, a variable but mostly shallow snow cover exists across the northern tier of the Midwest, mainly from the eastern Dakotas to Michigan. On the Plains, nearly […] The post Unseasonably mild weather across much of the Heartland, complicated by rain, areas of fog 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 nationwide, except for cooler-than-normal conditions across Florida’s peninsula.  Meanwhile, below-normal precipitation across much of the southern half or the country should contrast with wetter-than-normal weather in southern Texas and much of the northern U.S. The post A change in weather for the Heartland to seasonal cold, precipitation by the New Year appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Understanding climate resilience in crops. An agronomy professor at Kansas State University is helping lead a study on climate resilience in crops and sustainable intensification of agriculture. On this week’s episode we’ll hear from Vara Prasad, who says this new project continues work managed over the past decade at the university’s Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab […] The post USAID funding study into climate resilience of crops and improved precision technology appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story