January 27, 2025

A Federal Circuit Court ruled Friday that AGCO has defeated John Deere’s appeal of a Delaware jury’s verdict in a patent-infringement case. In a statement, AGCO officials said Deere’s appeal involved Precision Planting’s SpeedTube product – a high-speed planting system. Deere claimed AGCO infringed on their intellectual property, but these arguments were rejected by the […] The post AGCO defeats John Deere’s patent infringement appeal appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Missouri Farm Bureau president Garrett Hawkins says energy policy and how it intersects with private property is a focus during the American Farm Bureau Convention in San Antonio. The post Missouri Farm Bureau focused on how energy policy and private property intersect appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A crop nutrition lead at The Mosaic Company says the current state of the ag economy has many growers considering cutbacks on fertilizer applications.  Tryston Beyrer says making too many cuts could have longer-term impacts. “Fertility is a large portion of the budget,” he says. “Often times it’s 20% of our budget, but it can account […] The post Be careful with fertilizer cutbacks appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Another swing at Waters of the U.S.  AFBF senior director of government affairs Courtney Briggs says the WOTUS rule has been a long-standing problem for members. “Because we’ve had a ping-pong, back and forth of regulations over the last several decades, and unfortunately during the Biden administration we had a very troubling rule that created […] The post AFBF expects Trump administration to narrow WOTUS reach appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Across the Corn Belt, dry, breezy weather accompanies the return of near- or above-normal temperatures.  Monday afternoon’s high temperatures should reach 50°F or higher as far north as Nebraska and western Iowa.  Season-to-date snowfall remains quite low in much of the upper Midwest, with July 1 – January 26 totals of 1.0 inch (8% of […] The post Largely fair weather; wind-blown, milder air builds across much of the Heartland appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The Missouri Soybean Association is confident that the incoming Governor Mike Kehoe will maintain a focus on agriculture despite budget challenges. Kehoe’s regulatory approach and transportation infrastructure spending are seen as farmer-friendly by Missouri farmers. The post Governor Kehoe’s Agriculture Focus 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 precipitation across much of the country.  Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to the Pacific Coast States and northern sections of the Rockies and Plains. Meanwhile drier-than-normal weather should be limited to the southern Atlantic region and an area […] The post An active, moisture-laden pattern ahead across the Heartland; a wide-range of temps appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story