August 11, 2025

Taste From Indiana Farms at the state fair allows fairgoers to sample products that farmers produce. Joy Tracey, Indiana Farm Bureau’s District 2 education and outreach coordinator, says the annual event is an opportunity to educate and connect farmers with consumers. “We look for commodities that we have not covered in the past,” she says. “We also have […] The post Taste of Indiana Farms now open at the Indiana State Fair appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

An extension field crop pathologist at Purdue University says she’s concerned with how fast southern rust is spreading across the Midwest. Darcy Telenko says the disease has now been found in more than twenty counties in Indiana. “It has those ruptured pustules that appear on the top of the leaf’s surface,” she says. “Generally, they’re tighter in […] The post Southern rust expanding rapidly across the Midwest  appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The “Grand Champion Overall Master Showman” of the 2025 Illinois State Fair has been announced. Hunter Shrike, of Champaign County, son of Dan and Jennifer Shrike, won the title, out-showing sixty-four other young livestock exhibitors in the 25th annual Master Showmanship Contest. Cole Kinsella, of Stark County, son of Jim & Joni Kinsella, was named […] The post Illinois Master Showmanship winners announced appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Cash dairy prices were mixed with a few more sales Monday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.    Dry whey was up $0.0050 at $0.5850.  One sale was recorded at that price.  Forty-pound cheese blocks were up $0.01 at $1.86.  Five sales were recorded, ranging from $1.8525 to $1.86.  Cheese barrels were up $0.0025 at $1.80.  No […] The post Cheese higher, butter lower with mixed cash dairy prices Monday appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story