Celebration of Modern Ag on the National Mall is underway in Washington, D.C. John Deere director of precision ag marketing Darren Havens says industry partners are displaying farm equipment and ...
The U.S. Ag Secretary says he’s optimistic about at least one farm bill proposal. At an event on the Mississippi River last ...
The executive director of Minnesota Corn says people, planet, and profit are the pillars of sustainability for their grower members. Adam Birr tells Brownfield those themes are evident in the ...
Slight progress has been made on corn and soybean planting in the last week across. USDA says corn planting is 18% complete, an increase of 5% points from the previous week and slightly behind this ...
The USDA says corn and sorghum export inspections as of the week ending May 2nd continue to move out faster than what’s ...
An agronomist says the varying rain amounts have some farmers planting and others waiting.  Aricka Wech with Pioneer is in southwestern Wisconsin, and says some of her farmers are planting and others ...
A southwestern Indiana farmer says weather has continued to be a problem. Ben Kron tells Brownfield progress has been slow. “We finally got rolling in the fields,” he says. “We got somewhere in the 25 ...
Kentucky farmers were able to make decent planting progress despite widespread rains. Corn is 46 percent planted, and 25 percent has emerged.  Soybeans are 33 percent planted, and 7 percent emerged.
Planting progress in Illinois made modest gains last week. Scott Halpin, who farms in Grundy County in northeastern Illinois, tells Brownfield… “We do have a little bit of beans in on our farm and a ...
Weather continues to slow down planting progress for many Wisconsin farmers. USDA statistician Greg Busler says only 3.2 days were suitable for fieldwork in the week ending Sunday, and the rains ...
Farmers in Arkansas were able to make some planting progress last week, despite rainfall keeping many out of the fields for about half of the week. The USDA says 91% of corn is planted and 76% has ...
Corn planting jump started last week in Michigan. Jim Zook with Michigan Corn tells Brownfield warmer soil temperatures have allowed farmers to plant more. “We’re to the point now that the soil ...