Spring fieldwork continues to be extremely limited across Minnesota. The latest crop progress report from USDA says there was less than one day suitable last week, mainly because of melting snow. There were scattered reports of farmers fertilizing dryer fields where the ground was solid enough to support equipment. Wanda Patsche of Welcome in Martin …
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Apr 08
FAPRI-MU ’19 Outlook sees farm finances pressured
The 2019 U.S. Baseline Outlook for U.S. agriculture projects continued financial stress. Pat Westhoff is director of FAPRI, the Food & Agricultural Policy Researcher Institute, with the University of Missouri, “We are showing a little bit higher farm income in 2019 than 2018. But even as we look forward, beyond 2019, we don’t see farm …
Apr 08
Vietnam increasing efforts to control African Swine Fever
African Swine Fever continues to spread throughout Asia. Cases have now been identified in China, Mongolia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. According to the USDA’s Foreign Ag Service, the disease has spread quickly through Vietnam since it was first detected in February. In just over a month, the cases have been reported in 23 of 63 municipalities …
Apr 08
Opportunities and risks of emerging hemp industry
In times of tight margins farmers are looking for ways to diversify their operations and add additional forms of revenue. For some farmers – that means adding hemp into their crop rotation. In this Managing for Profit, Stephen Nicholson grain and oilseed analyst with Rabobank talks about some of the risks farmers should consider before …
Apr 08
IL State FFA Officer Selection Committee Meeting
Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Rhiannon Branch will be in Springfield on April 13, 2019 as a member of the committee to select the 2019-2020 Illinois State FFA Officer team. Continue reading IL State FFA Officer Selection Committee Meeting at Brownfield Ag News.
Apr 08
Kudlow expresses “guarded optimism” on U.S.-China trade talks
White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow says the U.S. and China are getting “closer and closer” to a trade deal. He says progress was made when the Chinese Vice Premier was in Washington last week, and talks are continuing with top trade officials through teleconferencing. Kudlow says a lot of the difficult topics that have …
Apr 05
NRCS sets May 10th for next CSP deadline
The USDA’s NRCS agency has set May 10th as the deadline for Conservation Stewardship Program applications for Fiscal Year 2019. Jimmy Bramblett, deputy chief of NRCS, tells Brownfield Ag News the CSP has changed in the 2018 farm bill from acreage-based to cash-based – but, growers won’t see a difference at their levels, “Previously, it …
Apr 05
Conditions variable across Upper Midwest
An employee of a crop input distributor that covers 26 states says conditions across the Corn Belt are variable. Steve Carlsen, crop enhancement manager for Minnesota-based West Central Distribution, says most of his recent travels have been in the Upper Midwest. “In western North Dakota they’re pretty hopeful about getting out there early. In the …
Apr 05
Montana among states with ‘fake meat’ law
Montana is among the states passing laws restricting the use of the word ‘meat’ on food labels. It’s similar to a law passed in South Dakota that South Dakota Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Gary Cammack says is aimed at prohibiting food produced from cultured cells from being labeled as meat. “It can’t be labeled meat …
Apr 05
Parson requests FEMA flooding assessments
Nishnabotna River levee break near Watson, MO in March ~Photo by Richard Oswald Governor Parson has requested preliminary flood damage assessments for seven counties from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). (Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Mississippi, New Madrid, and Ray counties) Parson says the damage from the historic flooding has devastated some northwest and southeast …