IL Farm Bureau Summer Ag Tour
May 15, 2025
Brownfield’s Jared White coveres the IL Farm Bureau Summer Ag Tour. The post IL Farm Bureau Summer Ag Tour appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Brownfield’s Jared White coveres the IL Farm Bureau Summer Ag Tour. The post IL Farm Bureau Summer Ag Tour appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
About 200 hourly employees at Winnebago Industries’ Forest City manufacturing facility will be laid off starting next month. Company employees were told on Wednesday that after a thorough business analysis that the company has made the difficult decision to reduce the workforce and pause their Class A motorhome production line due to current inventory levels, […] View Full Story
Iowa’s largest manufacturing employer is reporting a significant dip in income compared to a year ago. Quad Cities-based John Deere reports second quarter net income of $1.8 billion dollars, a drop from nearly $2.4 billion at the end of the same quarter last year. For the first six months of the fiscal year, Deere’s net […] View Full Story
Strong thunderstorms rumbled across parts of northern Iowa this morning, and a wide area of the state will soon be under a Wind Advisory. It covers 34 counties in northwest, west-central and north-central Iowa from noon until 8 o’clock tonight. Meteorologist Rod Donavon, at the National Weather Service, says the powerful winds can make driving […] View Full Story
Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA says soybean production remains on its record track. CONAB says that with harvest nearly over, soybean production should be around 168.342 million tons, up 14% on the year, with the yield rising 10.5% thanks to improved weather. This will likely lead to more export competition against the U.S., especially for […] The post CONAB calls Brazil soybean crop record large appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures across much of the northern half of the U.S., while warmer-than-normal weather will prevail in California, western Nevada, and from the southern Plains to the southern Atlantic Coast. Meanwhile, near- or above-normal precipitation across most of the country should contrast with […] The post Frequent spells of showers, storms across the Heartland as cooler air returns appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
An extension ag economist says don’t underestimate the role good risk management has for farm profitability. Ben Brown at the University of Missouri says it won’t be an easy year financially for many farmers. That’s why developing and implementing a good risk management plan is important. The post Have a good risk management plan appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
An extension ag economist says don’t underestimate the role good risk management has for farm profitability. Ben Brown at the University of Missouri says it won’t be an easy year financially for many farmers. That’s why developing and implementing a good risk management plan is important. The post Have a good risk management plan appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
A tax break for businesses cleared the Iowa Senate and House in the final hours of the 2025 Iowa Legislature. The bill reduces the business tax rate for the state fund for unemployment benefits. According to Representative David Young, a Republican from Van Meter, the current tax rate was set in 1987. “With an Unemployment […] View Full Story
After three years of trying, the governor’s plan to provide state employees four weeks of paid maternity leave and one week of paid paternity leave.It will also provide four weeks of leave to state employees who adopt a child. Senator Dawn Driscoll, a Republican from Williamsburg, is the only senator who spoke before the bill […] View Full Story
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