February 4, 2026

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures closed higher, supported by the tight market ready numbers, getting ready for the week’s direct cash business. Contracts did close below the session highs due to modest midday losses in beef and overbought signals. April live was up $.17 at $241.80 and June was $.60 higher at […] The post Cattle futures see more gains ahead of week’s direct trade appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

An ag transportation expert says maintaining a reliable and efficient supply chain is critical as pressures mount across agriculture. “There’s a lot of stress among farmers,” said Mike Steenhoek with the Soy Transportation Coalition. Steenhoek says transportation costs have a direct impact a farm’s financial performance. “If you have a costly, cumbersome, inefficient and unreliable […] The post Transportation costs adding pressure to farmers, expert says appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The International Poultry Welfare Alliance and International Egg Foundation have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen poultry welfare training around the world. Elena Myhre with the International Poultry Welfare Alliance tells Brownfield “this is something we’ve made in collaboration with a lot of U.S. poultry producers and now, they’re able to be a leader […] The post IPWA–IEF partnership aims to strengthen poultry welfare education worldwide appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Biofuels policy was a focus of the Iowa Soybean Association’s Farm Forward Conference. Iowa Soybean Association president Tom Adam says the U.S. Treasury’s proposed guidance on the 45Z tax credit is encouraging. “It will limit tax credits to production using North American feedstocks. And also takes away the carbon intensity score due to indirect land […] The post Iowa soybean leaders eye 45Z guidance, EPA action to boost biofuel demand appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. President Trump says China might buy more U.S. soybeans this marketing year, but there are very few details at this point. If there’s an impediment, outside of the tenuous nature of trade negotiations, its storage logistics, as China has also been buying significant amounts of soybeans from […] The post Talk of new demand from China supports soybeans appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

An Iowa cattle producer says there are major hurdles can keep the next generation out of the cattle business. Justin Robbins says the lack of equity and access to land are two of the biggest challenges. “As an industry, I think that we need to help those younger producers,” he says.  “Maybe visiting with some […] The post Finding an alternative path for the next generation of producers appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story