Milk futures and the cash dairy markets were mixed Friday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. March Class III milk was down $0.02 at $16.57. April was up $0.17 at $16.08. May was up $0.10 at $16.48. June was up $0.08 at $17.20. July through January contracts ranged from ten cents lower in January to eight cents…… Continue Reading
The Wisconsin Dairy Alliance has filed an appeal in its case against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources concerning pollutant discharge elimination system permits. The original lawsuit on behalf of Wisconsin Dairy Alliance and Venture Dairy Cooperative claimed the DNR lacked authority to force farms to have permits under the state’s water quality laws. Calumet…… Continue Reading
March’s USDA supply and demand update was fairly quiet for U.S. corn, soybeans, and wheat. U.S. wheat ending stocks were up from February on the dismal export demand, while corn and soybean ending stocks were unchanged. The USDA also trimmed the average estimated 2023/24 farm prices for corn and wheat, but left soybeans steady. The…… Continue Reading
As farmers manage inputs in a tight margin year, FMC Regional Technical Manager in the Heartland Gail Stratman says biologicals can be a smart investment that takes yield potential to the next level. “FMC has products like Ethos-Elite this year. It combines an insecticide with a dual-strain biological to bring insect and disease control and…… Continue Reading
The nation’s pork industry is another step closer to an enhanced swine traceability system. Scott Hays, a Missouri producer, and immediate past president of the National Pork Producers Council tells Brownfield NPPC has spent nearly two years developing a program that would expedite a response to an animal disease outbreak… “We need to know where…… Continue Reading
The USDA tightened the domestic balance sheets for cotton and rice just a little bit. U.S. rice ending stocks are pegged at 41.5 million hundredweight, 1 million below February on a higher export estimate, now at 88 million tons. The average 2023/24 farm price is estimated at $18.80 per hundredweight, compared to $18.40 a month…… Continue Reading
FMC Technical Services Representative Camille Lambert tells Brownfield with lower commodity prices, farmers need to have the right solutions to keep weeds from coming up. “That’s where FMC really shines,” she says. “We’ve got a great residual chemistry for soybeans to keep pigweeds at bay. We have several Authority brands that work well, along with…… Continue Reading
A small Swiss mountain creamery has won its fourth World Champion Cheese award and third in a row. Michael Spycher makes cheese at Mountain Dairy Fritzenhaus for Gourmino cheese in Bern, Switzerland. His Hornbacher cheese is named for the river that flows by the creamery. It scored 98.98 out of 100 possible points to top…… Continue Reading
The head of UPL North America David Elser says regulatory hurdles can make it challenging to provide new crop production technologies to farmers. “We want to bring new products to the marketplace and when things slowdown in Washington D.C. due to uncertainty, that slows down being able to provide new technology to farmers,” he says.…… Continue Reading
The USDA has raised its 2024 beef, pork, and broiler production projections. Beef is estimated at 26.325 billion pounds, up 140 million from February on expectations for a higher slaughter rate the rest of the year, with an average steer price of $183 per hundredweight, $3 higher, increased imports and consumption and steady exports. Pork…… Continue Reading
