June 12, 2025

The USDA lowered its 2025 red meat and poultry production outlook. Beef is now seen at 26.358 billion pounds, 65 million lower than in May on second quarter slaughter data and third and fourth quarter cow slaughter projections, with an average steer price of $221.51 per hundredweight, up $7, and higher imports, exports, and consumption. […] The post Mixed month for red meat, poultry projections appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The USDA has modestly increased its expectation for 2025 winter wheat production. The crop is now seen at 1.382 billion bushels, 25,000 more than in May and 2% above 2024, mostly due to an improved yield. The projected yield for this year held at 53.7 bushels per acre, which would be 2 bushels more than […] The post USDA winter wheat crop guess slightly higher appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Cash dairy prices were steady to lower except butter again Thursday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.    Dry whey was down $0.0125 to $0.5525.  Two sales were recorded at $0.5525 and $0.5550.   Forty-pound cheese blocks were down $0.02 at $1.84. One sale was recorded at that price.  Cheese barrels were down $0.0050 at $1.85.  No sales […] The post Cash dairy prices steady to lower except butter Thursday appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A farmer in northwest Minnesota is pleased with crop development. Shayne Isane of Badger says it was an unusual spring. “Got in early, got some rain. Had about a ten-day delay, got back in. Had about a 10-day window to get in and we did manage to do that before we got like an inch […] The post Unusual but good spring for northern Minnesota farmer appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

American Farm Bureau members discussed ag policy with members of Congress this week. Minnesota Farm Bureau president Dan Glessing took part in the annual AFBF summer fly-in and tells Brownfield the Senate reconciliation bill somewhat resembles the House version. “From what we’ve seen it’s not a lot different, and we’re still trying to digest what’s […] The post Reconciliation, Prop 12, MAHA report among topics of AFBF fly-in appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The USDA made modest adjustments to domestic ending stocks projections for grains and oilseeds. Old crop corn ending stocks were down 50 million bushels from May at 1.415 billion bushels due to an increased export guess, which also pulled new crop stocks 50 million bushels lower to 1.75 billion. The average 2024/25 farm price is […] The post USDA raises old crop corn, new crop wheat export estimates appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A farmer in north central Kansas says his corn and soybean crops are off to one of the best starts he’s ever seen. Shale Porter tells Brownfield emergence is excellent and ponding water hasn’t been an issue. “Our rains we wouldn’t get very large amounts at a time. Maybe an inch or inch and a […] The post Kansas farmer says timely rains have helped crops appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Beef export sales are a bright spot in the USDA’s weekly export sales update. Beef during the week ending June 5th was the only major commodity to show a week-to-week improvement thanks to good demand from South Korea, Japan, and Mexico, helping to blunt a cancelation by China. China also canceled on U.S. cotton and […] The post Beef export sales up on week, others slide appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A southwest Nebraska farmer says he’s not expecting much out of his winter wheat crop this year. Jan TenBensel of McCook says it was extremely dry last fall, and the crop never got off to a good start. “It’s going to be rough. It was pretty dry early on. I hate to predict too early, […] The post Some of Nebraska’s winter wheat hit hard by drought appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story