Direct cash cattle trade has started to pick up at midday.  There are some bids noted and it’s expected packer inquiry will improve as the day progresses.  Opening bids are at $108 live and $173 to $175

A milk marketer confirms Dean Foods will be closing more processing plants. National Farmers Organization’s Kendell Lockwood works with dairy farmers and processors throughout Michigan. He tells Brownfield reports that Dean Foods will be closing seven plants

Across the Corn Belt, scattered showers and thunderstorms are maintaining generally favorable growing conditions for corn and soybeans. However, pockets of drought in the southwestern Corn Belt have left soybeans rated 19% very poor to poor in

A wet pattern will prevail during the next few days along a west-to-east axis stretching from the central Plains into the Mid-Atlantic region. The heaviest rain will occur along a slow-moving cold front that will generally separate

Grain and livestock futures are suffering as the Trump Administration negotiates with key export customers like China and Mexico. Iowa State University extension economist Chad Hart says some commodities have been hit especially hard, and marketing through

A Congresswoman from Illinois says President Trump will have a fight on his hands from her if he doesn’t turn the corner on trade disputes. Democrat Cheri Bustos tells Brownfield the President’s unpredictable policies and shoot-from-the-hip approach

A short window for applying dicamba herbicide is closing on Minnesota farmers. After receiving more than 250 drift complaints a year ago, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture decided to restrict the use of dicamba technology after June

The latest USDA report says May milk production was 19.1 billion pounds, up 0.8% from a year ago. Production in the 23 major dairy producing states totaled 17.9 billion pounds with production per cow averaging 15 pounds

A southeast Minnesota farmer says his corn looks as good as it ever has. Ed McNamara tells Brownfield he finished side-dressing nitrogen earlier this month, and ensuing rains moved the N down into the root system. “We

South Korea has joined Japan in suspending Canadian wheat imports following the discovery of genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant wheat. Steve Mercer with U.S. Wheat Associates says this is nothing new. “Of course we’ve been in that situation ourselves