May 28, 2026

Jul. corn $4.55 and 3/4, up 3 and 1/4 centsJul. soybeans $11.94 and 1/2, up 9 and 1/4 centsJul. soybean meal $334.10, up $3.50Jul. soybean oil 76.70, up 144 pointsJul. Chicago wheat $6.24, up 1 and 1/2 centsJun. live cattle $249.75, down $1.67Aug. feeder cattle $353.02, down $1.60Jun. lean hogs $96.97, down 62 centsJun. Class […] The post Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: May 28, 2026 appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Researchers are finding value and a potential market for something dairy processors previously had little use for. Gulustan Ozturk is a researcher at the University of Wisconsin Dairy Innovation Hub.  She says when the dairy industry produces whey protein isolate, it also produces a co-product called whey protein phospholipid concentrate. “It has those phospholipids, the […] The post Dairy co-product has huge nutritional value appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

U.S. ethanol stocks swelled over the past week. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says the domestic supply was the largest in almost a month at 24.968 million barrels, rising 93,000 on the week and 687,000 on the year. The year-over-year gain is linked to a generally faster rate of production. Ethanol production averaged 1.089 million […] The post Ethanol stocks move to multi-week highs, production nearly steady appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A south-central Iowa farmer says he’s prioritizing weed control as June begins. Steve Kuiper tells Brownfield, “Right now we’re applying second pass herbicide on corn and we’re side dressing corn.” He says he’s holding off on spraying his soybean fields for now. “We want them to get some size before we go and hit them. […] The post Weed control top of mind for south-central Iowa farmer appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Eastern Iowa farmer Dave Walton says he was able to finish up his spring planting season about two weeks ago. “Kind of everything went in a hurry. We got rained out early on and when it dried off we just started and didn’t quit.” He tells Brownfield he has some concerns about emergence. “Beans took […] The post Slow soybean emergence reported in eastern Iowa appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig says he wasn’t surprised that year-round E15 passed out of the U.S. House after finally getting a standalone vote. “What ended up happening with this vote on E15 was exactly as we had suspected for a long time which was give it an up or down vote on the floor […] The post Sec. Naig urges U.S. Senate to pass standalone E15 bill appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The vice president of advocacy for the National Farmers Union says continued calls for government assistance shows the current farm safety net isn’t working. Mike Stranz tells Brownfield, “There was a need for it, but we didn’t have the policy solutions in place to proactively address them,” he says. We had to rely on Congress […] The post NFU says more reliance on ad-hoc assistance highlights the need for a stronger farm safety net appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story