May 12, 2025

Significant planting progress has been made across much of Kentucky. But that’s not the case for Caleb Ragland of Magnolia. “We were able to get about 40% of our corn planted in late April,” he says. “I have not planted a seed in the month of May.” Statewide, 52 percent of the corn crop has […] The post Kentucky crops: 52% corn, 35% soybeans planted appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Nathan Alpers, a farmer in central Missouri, says the weather forecast is finally good for baling triticale. “For a week, at least in central Missouri, we have basically no chance of rain until late in the weekend.” Alpers says there’s been consistent rains since Easter, and triticale provides good tonnage and nutrition when harvested at […] The post Making hay while the sun shines appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A ag educator says farmers can benefit from knowing more about drain tile, and the location of older systems installed on their farms. Kevin Erb with the University of Wisconsin Extension tells Brownfield well-drained soil helps improve crop yields, but there are a lot of old drainage tile systems that might not be working well […] The post Mapping tile lines can help with future maintenance appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

USDA’s May Supply and Demand report shows milk production is likely to rise in 2025 and 2026.  The May 12th update shows the trend for an expanding milk cow herd and slightly higher milk per cow is continuing. The larger supply of milk is expected to lower dairy product prices for consumers buying butter, nonfat […] The post Dairy supply expected to rise appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Most corn and rice in planting in Arkansas has been completed, and work continues to get the other crops in. Ninety-two percent of the state’s corn is now planted, up 6% from last week and one percent more than the five-year average.  Eighty-three percent of the corn has already emerged.  Sixty-seven percent is rated good […] The post Arkansas planting continues appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Missouri State lawmakers met last Friday’s deadline to approve the ag budget for Fiscal Year 2026. State Senator Jason Bean, from District 25, tells Brownfield “I was on the conference committee for agriculture, specifically. That ag bill went very well and once again, it’s a good budget for the ag department. We didn’t have to […] The post State lawmakers advance MO Ag Dept. budget appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Warm and dry conditions allowed Iowa farmers to make significant planting progress last week. USDA’s latest crop update says corn is now 76 percent planted, eight days ahead of last year and three days ahead of the five-year average. Soybean planting advanced to 64 percent, 10 days faster than a year ago and five days […] The post Iowa farmers take advantage of warm, dry week appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Missouri State Senator Rusty Black, from District 12, says a bill that would fund capital improvements across the state, including rural roads and bridges, is dead for now. “House Bill 19 is the part of the state appropriations process that deals with new construction projects throughout the entire state.” Black says he’s disappointed with what […] The post Capital improvement bill dies in MO Legislature appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

More rain across Tennessee has added to an already full soil moisture profile. The USDA says topsoil moisture increased to a 26 percent surplus, and subsoil moisture supplies have a 19 percent surplus. Pastures have benefited from the rain with 70 percent rated good to excellent. The USDA says 76 percent of corn, 44 percent of soybeans, […] The post Soggy week for Tennessee farm fields appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Soybeans were sharply higher on commercial and technical buying. The main source of support was the 90-day lowering of reciprocal tariffs between the U.S. and China. This is an agreement-in-principal and further negotiations are expected in the coming days. Old crop ending stocks were down on the month and the first look at new crop […] The post Soybeans surge on temporary tariff cut appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story