The USDA sees a decline in U.S. wheat production from 2024 to 2025. This year’s winter wheat crop is now pegged at 1.345 billion bushels, down 3% from June as harvest moves forward and less than 1% below last year’s total. The year-to-year dip is due to smaller planted and harvested area. The USDA’s average […] The post USDA sees smaller wheat crop in 2025 appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Corn growers from across the country are heading to Washington, D.C., next week. Garrett Hawkins, president of the Illinois Corn Growers Association, says the annual Corn Congress, an event organized by NCGA, is an opportunity to build on key legislative relationships. “Whenever you’re actually meeting face to face with your senators and congressmen and women, […] The post Corn growers headed to DC appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
The USDA has tightened the balance sheets for U.S. corn and wheat, while raising the ending stocks guess for soybeans. New crop corn ending stocks are now pegged at 1.66 billion bushels, down 90 million from June on lower beginning stocks, a smaller crop because of acreage adjustments, and increased feed use. The average 2025/26 […] The post USDA lowers corn, wheat ending stocks expectations appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Heavy wind and rains moved through central Iowa overnight and this morning. National Weather Service Metrologist Alexis Jimenez says there were some big totals in the rain gauges. “Kind of in between Interstate 80 and Highway 30, we saw several amounts around one to three inches,” she says. Jimenez says the storm had winds driving […] View Full Story
Demand for fresh-milled, local flour is creating new opportunities for some farmers. Shelby Kibler, co-owner of Field and Fire, sources many of his ingredients from a farmer partner 15 miles from his bakery in West Michigan. “His farm is ideally suited to meet our needs, and so we’re growing together, and it’s really exciting,” he […] The post Hyperlocal demand generates new markets for farmers appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Across the Corn Belt, showers and thunderstorms are maintaining mostly favorable soil moisture reserves for summer crops, some of which are entering or moving through reproduction. According to an overlay of crop production areas and the U.S. Drought Monitor, only 12% of the U.S. corn crop was growing in an area experiencing drought on July […] The post An unseasonably active pattern for parts of the Heartland, centered on the Great Plains, Midwest appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
A U.S. Senator from Missouri says the U.S. Department of Energy Secretary will be putting a stop to the Grain Belt Express. On social media, Josh Hawley said he talked with Secretary Wright about it on Thursday. Earlier this week, Missouri’s Attorney General Andrew Bailey sent a letter to the department asking them to cancel […] The post Hawley: DOE will put a stop to Grain Belt Express appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
A pasture and land management specialist with Corteva Agriscience says recent rains have helped give pastures a boost across Nebraska. Abe Smith tells Brownfield, “We started off the season like a lot of folks a little bit drier. I think we were all stressed, but so far, we’ve seemed to have had better moisture here […] The post Rains help Nebraska pastures, weed management key for white clover appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Governor Kim Reynolds says the state and federal government should stick with the voluntary approach to reducing farm chemical runoff into Iowa waterways. A report commissioned by Iowa’s largest county has found nitrate levels in the rivers used to provide drinking water in the Des Moines metro are among the highest in the United States. […] View Full Story
The lead atmospheric scientist with Nutrien Ag Solutions says he’s keeping a close eye on several key agricultural regions across the globe. Eric Snodgrass says the European Wheat Belt has seen some adversity. “June was incredibly hot and dry through much of Europe, and it still remains that way in parts of France.” He says, […] The post Adverse weather impacting some key global ag regions appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
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