A U.S. Senator from Ohio says he’s supportive of President Trump’s use of tariffs as leverage. Jon Husted says the ag industry relies on strong relationships with the country’s largest trading partners. “We make the food that they need to thrive, and I think that they’ll back away from those tariffs,” he says. “It’s bad for their […] The post Using tariffs as a trade tool appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Forecasters say there’s a rising risk of severe weather across a wide portion of Iowa tomorrow afternoon and evening, along with a drastic downshift in temperatures that may bring snow on Saturday. Meteorologist Brian Pierce, at the National Weather Service office in Davenport, says it’s a large, fast-moving system. “The primary risk we’re looking at […] View Full Story
Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA continues to project large soybean and corn crops. CONAB now sees Brazil’s soybean crop at 167.37 million tons, up 13% from 2024, with yield and acreage both above a year ago. Total corn production is pegged at 122.76 million tons, 6% more than last year, with a month-to-month increase in […] The post CONAB maintains big Brazil soybean, corn estimates appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
A market specialist says typically 18-to-20% of a grower’s total input budget goes to fertilizer. On this episode of Managing for Profit with AgroLiquid, we’ll learn how a farmer can make the most of that expenditure. The post Building a Fertilizer Budget appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Across the Corn Belt, cool weather lingers in the upper Great Lakes region, where Thursday’s maximum temperatures will remain mostly below 55°F. In contrast, temperatures will approach 80°F later Wednesday as far north as the middle Mississippi Valley. Dry weather throughout the Midwest is allowing fields to start drying out in the wake of last […] The post A pleasant day of weather throughout much of the Heartland; unseasonably mild for most appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
A new population report on monarch butterflies finds conservation efforts in Iowa and elsewhere are starting to show promising results. Mykayla Hagaman, a program specialist at the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium, says researchers track the progress of the vital orange-and-black insect by measuring how much land the pollinators take up when overwintering in Mexico. “They […] View Full Story
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