A southern Wisconsin farmer says his first-crop alfalfa is okay, but not great. Doug Rebout is packing the bunk at his family farm near Janesville, and tells Brownfield it’s not a record year for first-crop tonnage. “We had what? The wettest April in history and then the driest May in history so that had a […] The post Farmer says alfalfa okay, not great appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
John Deere is working to resolve its right-to-repair lawsuit, and an ag attorney says it could lead to increased ag equipment repair access for farmers. Austin Peiffer with Ag and Business Legal Strategies says it’s a sign that it’s important to the broader equipment market. “Having the right to repair is necessary and the federal government […] The post Attorney says John Deere’s right-to-repair settlement would expand farmer access to equipment repairs appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Rising input costs are eating into dairy profits. Dan Glessing operates a dairy in southern Minnesota and says fuel and fertilizer prices are escalating. “Well obviously the fuel aspect, and I sure would love to have like three times the cows so I wouldn’t have had to purchase commercial fertilizer this year. But in a […] The post Dan Glessing: fuel prices becoming major concern for dairy farms appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
With the forecast calling for highs in the upper 80s and low 90s across Iowa today, it’s starting to feel like summertime, and many Iowans are firing up their backyard grills. Bernt Nelson, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, says despite higher prices at the grocery store, beef is the centerpiece for most […] View Full Story
A new collaboration with the Conservation Technology Information Center is expanding Cargill’s Success From the Ground Up program. In this episode of Managing for Profit, hear from CTIC’s Ryan Heiniger and Cargill’s Alayna Jacobs about how the initiative is helping farmers on the ground. The post Expanding farmer-led soil health initiatives appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
Governor Kim Reynolds has approved a new state tax on vaping products, including nicotine pouches, and each year $3 million of that new tax revenue will go toward pediatric cancer research at the University of Iowa. Reynolds held a bill signing ceremony at the Stead Children’s Hospital on the campus in Iowa City. She was […] View Full Story
Several hundred firefighters, law enforcement officers, EMS crews and other first responders from all across the nation will be gathering in Iowa City later this week for a conference designed to decrease their levels of stress and burnout. Dan Clay, dean of the University of Iowa’s College of Education, says the four-day event is called […] View Full Story
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of above-normal temperatures across southern Florida and the northwestern half of the U.S., while cooler-than-normal conditions will cover most areas along and southeast of a line from the southern Rockies to northern New England. Meanwhile, below-normal precipitation in the Midwest, Northeast, and parts of […] The post Temps to vary from seasonally cool to Summer-like heat; for many, a much drier pattern centered on the Corn Belt appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story
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