August 6, 2025

A crop protection specialist says he’s concerned about early detections of sudden death syndrome in soybeans. Troy Bauer is a senior seed treatment tech field representative for BASF and says, “We’re starting to get a lot of questions about SDS. Started getting phone calls last week about SDS showing up and this is almost a […] The post Earlier than expected detections of SDS appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

U.S. ethanol numbers paint a mixed picture for supply and demand. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says ethanol production averaged 1.081 million barrels per day, down 15,000 on the week, but up 14,000 on the year. Iowa State University’s Center for Agricultural and Rural Development says the estimated operating margin for the average Iowa plant […] The post Ethanol production below last week, above last year appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Low commodity prices and high input costs can make raising cotton a challenge, but a cotton specialist at the University of Missouri says farmers can cut back on some costs and still raise a good crop. Bradley Wilson says it’s expensive to raise cotton and one way to lower costs is to reduce seeding rates […] The post Two ways to cut costs raising cotton appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

An ag economist with University of Missouri Extension says there might not be as many prevent plant acres as initially expected in the United States. A wet spring caused planting delays and some prevent plant in the Missouri Bootheel, but Ben Brown says “I didn’t see a lot of unplanted fields winding down on a […] The post Ag economist expects fewer prevent plant acres appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A farmer in southeast Indiana says he’s concerned about root development after excessive moisture this spring. Mike Koehne raises food-grade corn and soybeans and tells Brownfield.. “Mother Nature hasn’t been very good to us, but I sure hope she doesn’t shut it off now since we got everything planted and everything’s growing. The root systems […] The post Indiana farmer says early spring rainfall impacted root development appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A plant pathologist with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says mid-summer rains have helped improve variable crop conditions.   Dylan Mangel tells Brownfield, “It didn’t look great for quite awhile around the Fourth of July or so and then things started to even out and fields look pretty good right now.” He says there are still […] The post Soybean crop headed in positive direction, still lots to be determined appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A member of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Trade is encouraged by actions taken by the Trump administration to improve U.S export business.  Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach says there’s been a lot of movement on the trade front the past few months. “I think it’s exciting for the ag industry because we are going to […] The post Fischbach encouraged by trade movement appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Commentary. Last year about this time, I wrote a column of which the opening line read: “Just keeping things in perspective…” On August 19, 2024, the number that was the focus of my writing was thirty-five trillion. But, alas, a year has passed, and a new number has taken its place. It is time to […] The post New number; new perspective appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The new chairman of the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) says collaboration is his top priority. Bryan Severs, who farms in Vermillion County, says agricultural commodity groups need to work together now more than ever. “We need to make our voices heard because the farmer is being affected by these tariffs more than any other operation […] The post New Illinois Soybean Association chair prioritizing collaboration appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story