Generally slow week for U.S. export inspections

The USDA says corn, soybean, and wheat export inspections as of the week ending January 23rd remain ahead of the respective paces needed to meet projections for the current marketing year. The 2024/25 marketing year kicked off June 1st for wheat and September 1st for beans, corn, and sorghum. The USDA’s next set of supply…Continue Reading

Minnesota Farm Bureau brings 9 policy recommendations to AFBF Convention

Minnesota Farm Bureau vice president Carolyn Olson says during the American Farm Bureau delegate session Tuesday, her organization will have the opportunity to debate nine policy recommendations. “We submitted 22, nine were accepted into the delegate session.” Speaking to Brownfield Saturday during the AFBF Convention in San Antonio, she said the recommendations range from EMS…Continue Reading

Kansas Farm Bureau concerned about mandatory animal ID

Kansas Farm Bureau president Joe Newland says the biggest concern his organization is bringing to the American Farm Bureau Convention in San Antonio is animal ID. “And where we go from there.” He tells Brownfield it needs to be voluntary. The post Kansas Farm Bureau concerned about mandatory animal ID appeared first on Brownfield Ag…Continue Reading

Nebraska Farm Bureau wants to capitalize on SAF potential

Nebraska Farm Bureau president Mark McHargue says his state has an opportunity to capitalize on the sustainable aviation fuel market. Speaking to Brownfield at the American Farm Bureau Convention in San Antonio, Texas, he said Nebraska is developing a pipeline to capture carbon dioxide. “So I think using our ethanol or corn stover to go…Continue Reading

AGCO defeats John Deere’s patent infringement appeal

A Federal Circuit Court ruled Friday that AGCO has defeated John Deere’s appeal of a Delaware jury’s verdict in a patent-infringement case. In a statement, AGCO officials said Deere’s appeal involved Precision Planting’s SpeedTube product – a high-speed planting system. Deere claimed AGCO infringed on their intellectual property, but these arguments were rejected by the…Continue Reading

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