Wheat tour shows 26 percent decline in production from 2025
Sean Finnie:
The U.S. is on track to produce the smallest winter wheat crop in nearly half of a century, largely due to the ongoing...
Input costs taking bigger toll than grain prices, Iowa farmer says
A crop insurance agent who farms in southeast Iowa suggests commodity prices are not what’s sinking farmer profitability.
Logan Lyon tells Brownfield USDA’s projected spring...
Randy Feenstra calls E15 vote a “huge deal” for farmers
The chair of the Rural Domestic Energy Council in the U.S. House is celebrating House passage of nationwide year-round E15 legislation.
Iowa Republican Randy Feenstra...
Anticipation brewing for China trade trip results
A market analyst says the ag industry is closely watching this week’s trade negotiations between the U.S. and China.
Jim McCormick with AgMarket.Net says he’d...
U.S. House passes nationwide, year-round E15
The U.S. House passed nationwide, year-round E15 legislation Wednesday evening with bipartisan support, 218 to 203.
Congressman Adrian Smith of Nebraska is the sponsor of...
Input costs taking bigger toll than grain prices, Iowa farmer says
A crop insurance agent who farms in southeast Iowa suggests commodity prices are not what’s sinking farmer profitability.
Logan Lyon tells Brownfield USDA’s projected spring...
Mixed month for turkey hatchery numbers
Turkey hatchery numbers for April were down on the year, leading to some mixed signals about production.
The USDA says there were 23.849 million turkey...
Iowa agronomist warns soil crusts acting like “concrete layer”
Crop emergence is being hindered by soil crusting in northern Iowa.
Iowa State University Extension agronomist Angie Rieck-Hinz says some heavy rains fells the last...
What it will take to grow the cattle herd: profit, pasture, and patience
University of Kentucky ag economist Kenny Burdine says, “There’s very little indication that we’re going to grow this cowherd quickly at all this time.”
But, when it happens, he says it...
First 5 years of MISTRIPS show benefits for corn and soybean farmers
An ecosystem scientist at Michigan State University says the first five years of prairie strip research is finding benefits for farm profitability and management.
Research...
