Providing rural communities with healthy food

A new Indiana University initiative is helping farmers increase local food sales with large wholesale buyers. Jodie Smith, founder of FARMWISE Indiana, says the program is centered around building relationships within rural communities. AUDIO: Healthy Living on FARMWISE Indiana The post Providing rural communities with healthy food appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.     … Continue Reading

Kansas dairy constantly seeks efficiency, conservation improvements

This year’s World Dairy Expo Dairy Producer of the Year is always seeking ways to improve the farming operation. Ken McCarty tells Brownfield they were milking around 800 cows in the early 1990s and now milk more than 20-thousand cows on four Kansas farms.  He says genetically, the cows have gotten better, the technology has…… Continue Reading

Trump: USMCA renewal TBD

U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday all options are on the table as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is renegotiated. “We could renegotiate it and that would be good, or we could just do different deals,” he says. “We’re allowed to do different deals if we want. We might make deals that are better for…… Continue Reading

Managing on-farm grain storage is key this fall

As more grain is stored on-farm this fall, an economist at CoBank reminds farmers it costs to be your own grain elevator. Tanner Ehmke tells Brownfield “grain sitting in the grain bin is like cash sitting in a bank account. You’re not earning interest on that. You haven’t converted that grain into cash. It’s not…… Continue Reading

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