A farm labor specialist is analyzing how the USDA conducts its Farm Labor Survey and how farmers using the H-2A guest worker program are impacted. Michigan State University’s Zach Rutledge tells Brownfield crop and livestock farmers are surveyed four times a year on the wages they pay their workers “That includes hourly wage compensation and some forms of […]
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Across the Corn Belt, cool weather lingers in the upper Great Lakes region, where Thursday’s maximum temperatures will remain mostly below
A new grain facility on the Wisconsin-Minnesota border means new marketing opportunities for farmers. Shortly after a merger that formed Alcivia
The USDA is expected to roll out the first round of Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP) funds starting next week. Brooke
A new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows the ethanol and co-products industry is contributing billions of dollars to the
A Wisconsin crop farmer says transportation issues have been one of his biggest concerns this year. “Living in west-central Wisconsin, we’re
The CEO of Growth Energy says there’s been some positive signals in Congress for a federal E15 solution. Emily Skor tells
May corn closed at $4.60 and 3/4, down 9 and 1/2 centsMay soybeans closed at $10.00 and 1/2, down 10 and
Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. Brazil’s soybean harvest has passed 60% complete and early activity is ongoing in
A southeastern Illinois farmer says he hopes to start planting around the first of April. Jeff Scates, chair of the Illinois
