June 11, 2026

Severe weather early Thursday morning left many southern Iowa farmers checking fields for damage. Lee Brooke farms near Clarinda in Page County and tells Brownfield that torrential rain, hail, and strong winds swept through the county. “People south of me were getting some softball and baseball size hail,” Brooke said, “down towards north of Clarinda, […] The post Storms bring flooding, hail, power outages to southern Iowa farms appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Persistent rains are preventing some farmers from finishing planting.  Don Wyss grows corn and soybeans in northeast Indiana. “We are struggling still with too wet conditions, so we are not done with our soybean planting yet.” Missouri farmer Kyle Durham grows corn and soybeans east of Kansas City and tells Brownfield he’s not finished planting. […] The post Wet fields leave farmers racing against soybean planting dates appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A wheat extension educator says wheat yield losses from this week’s severe weather will depend largely on the crop development stage. Michigan State University’s Dennis Pennington says, “The closer to harvest the lodging occurs, the less reduction in yield you have.” “If the lodging occurs like right at flowering, that damage is going to be […] The post Wheat lodging and quality issues possible from high winds, severe storms appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. The USDA’s old and new crop U.S. ending stocks numbers were unchanged, at 340 million and 310 million bushels, respectively, and U.S. development weather mostly looks favorable. For 2025/26, the USDA cut exports, but raised domestic crush an equal amount, with no adjustments, yet, for 2026/27. USDA […] The post Soybeans, corn ignore WASDE, focus on weather appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

A grains and oil seeds analyst says the latest supply and demand report didn’t include any surprises. Bree Baatz with Terrain says this month’s update drew less attention than others. “USDA essentially did a copy and paste and that tends to happen seasonally with the June report being uneventful. The May WASDE is really the […] The post June WASDE delivers few surprises, analyst says appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

Jul. corn $4.11 and 3/4, down 7 and 1/4 centsJul. soybeans $11.15, down 8 centsJul. soybean meal $301.70, down 20 centsJul. soybean oil 74.45, down 88 pointsJul. Chicago wheat $5.86 and 384, down 3/4 centAug. live cattle $242.67, up $1.17Aug. feeder cattle $359.65, up $5.27Jul. lean hogs $96.62, down 22 centsJul. Class III milk closed […] The post Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: June 11, 2026 appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The USDA has cut its 2026 production projections for beef, turkey, and eggs. Beef is now pegged at 25.438 billion pounds, down 109 million from May due to slaughter expectations for the rest of the year, with an average steer price of $250.16 per hundredweight, up $.50, and no change to imports, and reductions for […] The post USDA lowers 2026 expectations for beef, eggs, turkey appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

An atmospheric scientist says South American crop growers are dealing with a mix of weather conditions. Eric Snodgrass with Nutrien Ag Solutions says the eastern and central growing areas turned drier than normal to finish the safrinha corn crop. “What was interesting was as dry as it got at that point, we didn’t really see […] The post Mixed weather conditions impact South American crops appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story

The smallest U.S. wheat crop in decades continues to shrink due to weather issues and acreage cuts. The USDA sees the crop at 1.03 billion bushels, 2% below May as harvest moves forward and 27% below 2025, with an average yield of 46.8 bushels per acre, down 0.8 on the month and 8.1 bushels on […] The post U.S. winter wheat crop gets smaller appeared first on Brownfield Ag News. View Full Story