Overall, food inflation increased by more than 3 percent over the last year. Food-at-home, or groceries, increased by 2.7 percent year-over-year. David Ortega, a food economist with Michigan State University, shares some of the areas he’s watching. AUDIO: Healthy Living on food price trends The post Insight into food price trends appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Bryan Doherty, a senior market advisor with Total Farm Marketing, says many U.S. farmers are going to store the corn being harvested this fall. But that strategy requires careful planning and setting targets to sell. Hear more in the latest Managing for Profit. The post Have a marketing plan for stored corn appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Oskaloosa’s school board voted unanimously to fire a teacher over a social media post praising the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. High school art teacher Matthew Kargol allegedly shared a post last week reading: “1 Nazi down.” School personnel and the district’s legal counsel launched an investigation shortly after and placed Kargol on administrative […] View Full Story
The USDA is predicting this year’s soybean harvest in Iowa will be the third-largest on record, but the country that at one time bought about 60% of all U.S. soybean exports isn’t buying at all. China has booked purchases from South America instead. “It’s really death by a thousand cuts for our farmers right now […] View Full Story
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