May 29, 2026

Tyson Foods has announced an upcoming leadership change. The company says Jeff Schomburger will become president and CEO effective October 4th. He succeeds Donnie King who has spent 43 years with Tyson. Schomburger has been a member of the Tyson Foods Board of Directors since 2016, and has prior leadership experience with Procter and Gamble. […] The post Schomburger named new Tyson Foods CEO appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

What does the research say about adding quality roasted high-oleic soybeans to the dairy ration? Dr. Adam Lock, Professor from Michigan State University, explains what they are seeing for increases in milk yield and milk fat when feeding roasted, high-oleic soybeans to dairy cows. The post The Science Behind Feeding High-Oleic Soybeans to Dairy Cows appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Farm bankruptcies hit a six-year high in April, and an ag attorney says it’s a sign of growing financial stress.  Austin Peiffer with Ag and Business Legal Strategies says the farm economy continues to decline. “We have a war in Iran that’s affecting oil and fertilizer prices,” he says. “We still have weak commodity prices, and we don’t have a […] The post Farm bankruptcies hit a six-year high as ag economy continues to weaken appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Across the Corn Belt, mostly sunny skies and seasonable temperatures favor a rapid pace of corn and soybean planting and emergence, though 90-dgree heat has crept into the upper Midwest. Short-term dryness (last 30 days) in many western and northern growing areas contrasts with wet weather over the same period across the Ohio Valley and […] The post Welcome rains on parts of the Plains; fair, seasonally mild weather across much of the eastern Corn Belt appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of warmer-than-normal weather from the West into the Great Lakes and northern New England, while near- or below-normal temperatures are expected from Texas to the central and southern Atlantic Coast states, save for a pocket of warmer-than-normal conditions in southern Florida. Meanwhile, wetter-than-normal conditions […] The post Temps to vary from unseasonably cool South to summer-like heat North; a drier pattern centered on the eastern Corn Belt appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story