The four Iowans who serve in the U.S. House joined other Republicans early this morning in giving final approval to a $9 billion package of federal budget cuts. First district Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks said the bill cutting “waste, fraud and abuse exposed” by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is a “win for the American […] View Full Story
The continued rains created another improvement in this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor report, with 88% of the state now showing no drought conditions. The DNR’s Jessica Reese McIntyre keeps track of the numbers and says some stubborn pockets are hanging on “There is still about 25% of the state that’s abnormally dry and about 2% […] View Full Story
The Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board is using a national model to show state growers where their checkoff dollars are being spent. Farmer and Board President Jonathan Gibbs tells Brownfield he has participated in the See for Yourself Tour through the United Soybean Board’s national checkoff and wanted to do the same thing at the state […] The post Wisconsin Soybean growers can see checkoff investments first-hand appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
A southwest Nebraska farmer says several rounds of severe weather have impacted crop health. Roric Paulman raises a variety of crops including popcorn, soybeans and corn near Sutherland, and says there is significant top-end yield loss. “We’ve had a pretty rough spring. A lot of hail early on. Then we had 10 days of really […] The post Nebraska farmer monitoring top-end yield loss appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and other Republicans on the panel have advanced the nomination of President Trump’s former defense attorney to a seat on a federal Appeals Court. Emil Bove is currently a top official in the U-S Justice Department and Grassley said Democrats on the panel “unfairly criticized” Bove. “Frankly, […] View Full Story
A robotic space mission is scheduled for launch later this month to study what’s known as space weather, and the University of Iowa is the lead institution on the near-$166-million project, called TRACERS. Professor David Miles, in the UI’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the mission’s principal investigator. “TRACERS stands for the Tandem Reconnection […] View Full Story
A U.S. House Agriculture committee member says passing the bipartisan CLARITY Act gives her hope for future legislative work in Congress. Michigan Democrat Kristin McDonald Rivet tells Brownfield, “It was nice to have one of the very first issues that feels like it went straight down the middle, you know, common sense, let’s get something […] The post CLARITY Act passes U.S. House appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Bipartisan legislation that’s recently been introduced into the U.S. House would address concerns about foreign farmland ownership. Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon says it amends the Agriculture Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) to allow the federal government to track land transactions with another country. “We really don’t know the scope of the problem right now. We […] The post Bill would allow government to track, provide oversight of foreign investment of ag land appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Across the Corn Belt, mostly adequate soil moisture reserves and near- or below-normal temperatures remain nearly ideal for reproductive to filling summer crops. Friday’s Midwestern high temperatures will range from near 70°F in the Red River Valley of the North to 90°F across the southern tier of the Corn Belt. Showers and thunderstorms are occurring […] The post Wide-ranging temps across the Heartland; the vanguard to an increasingly active pattern appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of hotter-than-normal conditions across most of the nation, with near- or below-normal temperatures limited to northern Maine and the Far West, including the Great Basin and Pacific Coast States. Meanwhile, wetter-than-normal weather in the central Gulf Coast region and much of the northern U.S. […] The post Heat & high humidity ahead for much of the Heartland; more rain & severe storms ahead appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
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