Cash dairy prices were lower on Wednesday except for block cheese at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.     Dry whey was down $0.0075 at $0.6825.  One sale was recorded at that price.  Forty-pound cheese blocks were up $0.0375 at $1.57. Twenty-one sales were recorded, ranging from $1.5325 to $1.57.  Cheese

The former chairman of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee says the farm bill is still broken and fixing it could require collaboration outside of Washington D.C. “More money is going

Cattle producers in the Central Plains are worried they’re not going to have enough feed supplies. Joe Van New Kirk operates a large seedstock operation in the Nebraska Panhandle and

Brownfield Ag News is incredibly honored to partner with Beck’s on the Players with Heart program and help shine a spotlight on exceptional young people across the Midwest. This partnership

A Nebraska-based grain company has been ordered to pay $1 million in restitution to farmers for unpaid contracts. The Nebraska Public Service Commission has an approved the payout to 12

A referendum to raise the state beef checkoff was voted down in Minnesota. Minnesota State Cattlemen’s Association executive director Kaitlyn Root says the proposed refundable 50-cent increase failed on a

‘Tis the season for high school and college graduations! Rural communities across the Heartland are celebrating the young men and women who walk across stages in school gymnasiums, football fields,

Bayer and bp are teaming up to increase access to the biofuels market for farmers. In this episode of Managing for Profit, Chad Bilby, biofuel crops innovation and commercial lead

The board chair for the USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service says farmer participation is critical for its upcoming June Acreage and Quarterly Stocks Reports.  Lance Honig says, “They have a big impact on our ability to really reach

Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and precipitation virtually nationwide. Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to parts of the Pacific