The 90th annual Indiana FFA State Convention kicks off today. Some highlights will include community service projects, recognizing the Stars over Indiana and agricultural proficiency award winners, and the election of state officers Indiana FFA State Northern Region Vice President Savannah Bordner recalls attending her first state convention years ago… “I heard the state president …
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Jun 17
New technology applies manure to growing crops, including row crops
Applying manure to fields before planting and after harvest has been the only option but new equipment has been developed to apply manure mid-season. Managing For Profit 6/17/19 with Doug Sutter and Lee Kinnard Doug Sutter Continue reading New technology applies manure to growing crops, including row crops at Brownfield Ag News.
Jun 14
Disaster payments limited by appropriations
American Farm Bureau economist John Newton says disaster and prevent plant compensation is limited by congressional appropriations. Speaking on a Missouri Farm Bureau conference call, Newton said disaster legislation allows for prevent plant payments up to 90 percent of a crop’s value. He says, however, that Trump Administration officials have indicated the USDA must operate …
Jun 14
CoBank: Blockchain hurdles for commodity system
Blockchain technology is not taking off in agriculture as some had expected. CoBank’s Tanner Ehmke says the shared supply chain technology is being used by Walmart to track leafy greens and by Cargill internally but hasn’t been picked up industry-wide in the commodity sector. He tells Brownfield Ag News, “Commodities are co-mingled from multiple locations …
Jun 14
Senate Ag Committee member says it’s time to crack down on EPA waivers
A member of the Senate Ag Committee says it’s time to crack down on small oil refinery waivers. Minnesota Democrat Tina Smith tells Brownfield the RFS Integrity Act would force the EPA to be more transparent about issuing exemptions. “At the very least, the big companies that are getting these waivers, that ought to be …
Jun 14
RFS Integrity Act introduced in U.S. Senate
Bipartisan legislation that addresses oil refinery waivers has been introduced in the U.S. Senate. Nebraska Republican Deb Fischer and Illinois Democrat Tammy Duckworth say the RFS Integrity Act they’re introducing would require small refineries to petition for Renewable Fuel Standard hardship exemptions by June 1st each year. The change would also require EPA to properly …
Jun 14
Broin: E15 is ‘a game changer for rural America’
“A game-changer for rural America.” That’s how Jeff Broin, founder and CEO of ethanol producer POET, sees the approval of year-round E15. “This is going to open up seven billion gallons of annual ethanol, or biofuels, demand—and two billion bushels of annual corn demand in the coming years,” Broin says. “I don’t know if farmers have …
Jun 14
Wet, stormy pattern to prevail across the Heartland
Cool weather east of the Rockies will persist for the next several days across the Plains and Midwest, but near- or above-normal temperatures will return by week’s end across much of the South and East. Meanwhile, lingering heat in the West will be mostly confined to interior portions of the region, including the northern Great …
Jun 14
New rains break-out in parts of the western Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, dry weather has returned across the lower Great Lakes region, following Thursday’s heavy rain. Meanwhile, showers spreading across parts of the western Corn Belt are causing renewed planting delays. On June 9, less than one-half of the intended soybean acreage had been planted in Illinois (49% planted), Kansas (48%), Michigan (45%), …
Jun 14
A long planting season for this northwest Iowa farmer
Photo courtesy Kelly Nieuwenhuis The 2019 planting season was a long one for northwest Iowa farmer Kelly Nieuwenhuis. “We started April 26th and finished June 10th—that’s not normal,” Nieuwenhuis says. The corn he planted at the end of April took almost a month to emerge–but Nieuwenhuis says it looks good. “It’s eight inches tall now …
