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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A new Federal Order was issued Friday by USDA requiring that raw (unpasteurized) milk samples nationwide be collected and shared with
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Soybeans were mixed, mostly modestly lower, while still closing firm for the week in the most active months. Beans consolidated Friday
The head lobbyist for Syngenta says President-elect Trump’s nomination of Brooke Rollins for Secretary of Agriculture could be good for the
Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a flock of commercial layer chickens in Sioux County, Iowa. The Iowa Department
A plant pathologist says tar spot is unlike many crop diseases. Dr. Damon Smith with the University of Wisconsin tells Brownfield
Mar. corn closed at $4.40, up 5 centsJan. soybeans closed at $9.93 and 3/4, unchangedJan. soybean meal closed at $287.40, down
The National Farm Medicine Center says the H5N1 avian influenza virus is not a big threat to human health. Melissa Ploeckelman
An eleven-year-old from Alexandra, Indiana has partnered with the Indiana Beef Cattle Association to give back to the organization that helped save
