Wet conditions have impeded field work going back to last fall, and farmers throughout the Midwest are idled as more rain moves across the country. With the calendar now in May, the urgency to plant corn is real. But an agronomist based in the Upper Midwest cautions growers to not get in too big a …
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May 03
Safety leader says Wisconsin ROPS bill would help more farmers stay alive
Wisconsin lawmakers are considering 250-thousand dollars in annual support to add roll-over protection structures to older farm tractors. Melissa Ploeckelman with the National Farm Medicine Center in Marshfield, Wisconsin says older tractors by John Deere and Kubota are relatively inexpensive to retrofit, but Case and International tractors cost more. “A Case tractor, to put a …
May 02
South Dakota farmer worries that it’s still too cold for newly planted corn
A Northeastern South Dakota farmer considers himself fortunate to have at least started corn planting, but he’s worried that he and others around him will be late getting row crops in. Todd Hanten tells Brownfield he likes to finish planting corn by May 5th, but wet fields are making that unlikely. “Here we are May …
May 02
Missouri farmer’s prediction becomes reality
A Missouri farmer who told Brownfield on Monday he was hesitant to plant some fields in the bottom lands – is now looking at flooding. Mark Scott predicted it would happen, “I’m expecting small stream flooding because the creek that I’m sitting along right now is half full of backwater from the Mississippi (river) so …
May 02
Japan trade talks good for US beef and pork sectors
The head of the US Meat Export Federation says the longer the US waits to get a trade deal with Japan, the more it could cost US beef and pork producers. Dan Halstrom says talk of an ag-only deal with Japan is good news. “We need to get some agricultural trade deal as soon as …
May 02
#MNLeg: State budget moves to conference committee
The Minnesota House and Senate have completed work on the state budget. House Ag Committee chair Jeanne Poppe says the bills now go into conference. “Of note are certainly the ag and food finance (as well as) policy bills, we did two different bills. So we’ve got the finance bill that passed off the floor …
May 02
University of Illinois Agronomy Day
Brownfield’s Rhiannon Branch will be on the ground in Savoy for University of Illinois Agronomy Day on August 22, 2019. Continue reading University of Illinois Agronomy Day at Brownfield Ag News.
May 02
Dudley Smith Farm Field Day
Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Rhiannon Branch will be on the ground in Owaneco, IL for the Dudley Smith Farm Field Day, University of Illinois Extension Unit 18, on June 19, 2019. Continue reading Dudley Smith Farm Field Day at Brownfield Ag News.
May 02
New York lawmakers push for chlorpyrifos ban
Lawmakers in New York have voted to ban a common pesticide within the next two years. The Democrat-led Senate passed legislation earlier this week that would immediately prohibit aerial spraying of chlorpyrifos, and completely outlaw its use by December 2021. The bill is headed to Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has not publicly weighed in …
May 02
A slow start to the planting season
Weather can be one of the biggest challenges for farmers every year – and this year is no exception. The erratic weather has farmers running well behind their typical planting pace. In this Managing for Profit, Johnny Jay with Arysta LifeScience talks about planting progress and some of the challenges farmers in his area are …
