August 21, 2025

Community food leaders are urging lawmakers to continue supporting Michigan’s 10 Cents a Meal program and the benefits it brings to local economies. Michigan State University community food systems educator Garret Ziegler has been supporting local food procurement efforts for more than a decade.  “We’re only scratching the surface in terms of the purchasing power […] The post Incentives for farm-to-school purchasing in limbo appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The director of Indiana’s State Department of Agriculture says a new meat processing facility could help boost the state’s turkey industry. Don Lamb says Whitewater Processing recently broke ground on a $28.5 million facility in Dearborn County. “We really want to encourage meat processing and packaging here in the state,” he says. “We love the […] The post New meat processing facility could help boost Indiana’s turkey industry  appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins recently announced that the USDA would no longer provide funding through the Rural Development Business and the Industry Guaranteed Loan Program for solar or wind to be installed on productive farmland. David Widmar with Agricultural Economic Insights says he’s concerned this new change could impact the future of solar energy production. “There […] The post Changes in USDA policy could impact the future of solar energy expansion appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

 An ag economist expects the hot streak of some ag exports to continue. “This old crop market is finishing really, really strong.” Dan O’Brien with K-State University says it’s been a little surprising. “We really don’t see weakness in the competitive suppliers in terms of supply. For example, the corn crop looks great in South […] The post Strong export sales streak expected to continue appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

There are concerns politics could disrupt U.S. ethanol exports to its top customer.  American Coalition for Ethanol senior vice president Ron Lamberty says for more than two years Canada has been the top export destination for U.S. ethanol. “They wouldn’t have any of that ‘what about food versus fuel?’ They didn’t have all that in […] The post Tariffs complicate relationship with U.S. ethanol’s top customer Canada appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

New crop corn continues to be a big bright spot for U.S. exports. The USDA says those new crop corn sales during the week ending August 14th topped 110 million bushels thanks to the U.S. price advantage over competing origins. New crop soybean export sales were above a week ago, with more than half of […] The post Another big week for new crop corn export sales appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

One ag group says a bill in the U.S. Senate would help accelerate the growth of the U.S. bioeconomy. James Glueck, executive director of the Plant Based Products Council, says the Ag BIO Act would help scale up biomanufacturing capacity and open new markets for farmers. “It would reauthorize some of USDA’s loan programs that […] The post Plant Based Products Council backs Ag BIO Act in Senate appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story