An agronomist says farmers should closely evaluate their nitrogen plans when dealing with less than ideal corn stands. Drew Beckman, with Beck’s Hybrids, tells...
The incoming president of the Livestock Marketing Association says cattle marketing patterns have shifted now that the drought has improved in northeast Missouri. Mike...
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were lower on profit-taking ahead of the week’s direct business. There is also concern that...
It’s been a challenging spring for north-central Iowa farmer Josh Nelson. “Going into planting we were pretty worried about soil moisture and subsurface moisture...
Researchers are close to giving farmers a tool to monitor real-time soil nitrogen levels. Kwan-Yu Chen is developing a low-cost nitrogen sensor that can...
U.S. broiler sets and placements continued their faster than 2023 pace last week. The USDA says there were 244.765 million eggs in incubators, slightly...
Like many farmers in the Eastern Corn Belt, Beck’s Hybrids has faced planting delays in their production seed corn operations. Brownfield recently visited Beck’s...
A crop specialist says implementing a defensive nitrogen management program can help fill gaps throughout the growing season. “Anytime we split-apply nitrogen and give...
Cash dairy prices continued to fall Wednesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey was down $0.0025 closing at $0.3950. Six sales were recorded, ranging...
