A soybean researcher is urging producers to be cautious about their 2019 crop inputs. University of Wisconsin’s Shawn Conley has been meeting farmers at winter agronomy meetings, telling them to be cautious about cutting soybean seeding rates. “I know that’s a common practice that growers are doing, but the germ and the seed quality across …
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Jan 15
Illinois economist doesn’t expect drastic farmland value shifts
There are mixed opinions about what direction farmland values will go this year and in the years to come. Professor Todd Kuethe from the University of Illinois says he’s not expecting a lot of change in the short term. Continue reading Illinois economist doesn’t expect drastic farmland value shifts at Brownfield Ag News.
Jan 15
Trump returns for AFBF’s 100th
President Trump found a friendly audience at the 100th American Farm Bureau Convention. The president found little resistance to his desire to build a wall on the nation’s southern border. A big part of his speech to the American Farm Bureau focused on immigration issues. “I want people to come into our country,” Trump told …
Jan 14
Peel says trade impacts, direct and hidden, will grow
Trade impacts will become bigger and hidden impacts will rise if trade issues continue, according to a beef marketing specialist. Derrell Peel, with Oklahoma State University Extension, tells Brownfield Ag News, “Projections for U.S. macroeconomic growth in 2019 have been reduced as a result of the continuing trade war and even the global economy is …
Jan 14
NCGA concerned about U.S. withdrawal from NAFTA
The National Corn Growers Association views the possibility of U.S. withdrawal from NAFTA as risky and potentially very detrimental to farmers. NCGA president Lynn Chrisp of Nebraska says they’re letting the Trump Administration know how important it is for the U.S. to stay in NAFTA until the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is ratified. “We understand that …
Jan 14
Marshall to chair Missouri Farmers Care
The new chairman of the Missouri Farmers Care Coalition says there remains a need to fight extremist groups that go after production agriculture, like the Humane Society of the U.S., “They continue to work at the county level, any time there’s an issue with an opportunity for new agriculture to get put in the ground, …
Jan 14
U.S. & Europe have different trade goals
U.S. and European Union officials are at odds over whether agricultural issues should be included in trade talks. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office has made it clear they want to reduce or eliminate tariffs on ag goods and secure market access in the EU. The European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström told reporters they were …
Jan 14
Cooperatives Working Together offers export assistance
Cooperatives Working Together is helping provide export assistance for another 28 cheese and whole milk powder export contracts. The industry-funded program announced sales for nearly four and a half million pounds of Cheddar, Monterey Jack, and Gouda cheeses, 454-thousand pounds of butter, and more than a million pounds of whole milk powder. CWT works through …
Jan 14
Nebraska bill addresses ‘fake meat’ labeling issue
Nebraska State Senator Carol Blood A bill to prevent food products from being labeled as “meat” if they do not come from livestock or poultry has been introduced in the Nebraska legislature. The bill was introduced by Senator Carol Blood of Bellevue, who says her goal is to promote “truth in advertising”. “We aren’t going …
Jan 14
Book of the Year author’s prior ag connection was drinking cranberry juice
The American Farm Bureau Foundation’s Book of the Year winner is Lisl Detlefsen for “Right This Very Minute.” The book explains to children how every minute of every day, someone is working to bring food to their table. Detlefsen lives on a cranberry marsh near Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, with her husband and two sons. “Telling …