September 2, 2025

An ag economist says he’s very concerned about China’s lack of new crop soybean purchases. “At this point, China has yet to buy one bean for this upcoming marketing year,” said Jim McCormick with AgMarket.Net. McCormick says early September is the timeframe when U.S. soybean sales typically pick up steam to China. “As this window […] The post China’s holdout on US new crop beans continues appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A southeast Iowa farmer says a wetter-than-expected summer impacted the quality of his corn crop. “In July we had, depending on who you talk to, between 12-16 inches (of rain) in this area,” said Tom Adam of Harper. Adam says disease pressure has been strong. “The crops have done pretty well with (the rain), but […] The post Southern rust impacting southeast Iowa corn crop appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The U.S. International Trade Commission has unanimously voted to keep suspension agreements on imported sugar from Mexico. Rob Johansson with the American Sugar Alliance says the agreements were put into place in 2014 after subsidized Mexican sugar cost U.S. producers $4 billion and many sugar workers their jobs. The Commission says lifting the current suspensions […] The post Mexican sugar suspensions maintained appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Soybean Death Syndrome has some look-alikes. In this Pods for Profit episode, from Michigan State University’s plant pathologist joins us to explain the difference and what kind of impact they can have on yield. The post Know Your Look-Alikes appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture says new funding efforts could help farmers implement additional conservation practices in the Western Lake Erie Basin. Brian Baldridge says a $1 million grant through the U.S. EPA’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative will expand the number of conservation agronomists located in northwest Ohio. “To really have that strong […] The post $1 million grant helping expand conservation efforts in Ohio’s WLEB appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of below-normal temperatures across much of the eastern half of the U.S., while warmer-than-normal weather should prevail from the Pacific Northwest to the northern High Plains, as well as the Four Corners region and an area stretching from coastal Texas to Florida and southern […] The post An early-Autumn feel to yield to rapid warming; showers return to the Plains, northwestward appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A pair of state commodity groups continue to push for nationwide, year-round E-15. Mike Bergen is a farmer director with the Nebraska Corn Growers Association and says he’s optimistic that the effort won’t stall in Congress like it did last year. “(I) have pretty good confidence that we have a vehicle to give it passage […] The post Nebraska commodity groups continue optimism for year-round E15 passage this year appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story