The Great Lakes specialty crop industry is working to attract innovations from the West Coast and abroad to reduce the need for labor. Greg Bird with the Michigan Vegetable Council tells Brownfield technology needs to be tailored to the region’s growing conditions to replace hand labor and be adopted by farms. “Our soils are a […]
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A University of Wisconsin researcher says farm data might be going to people that shouldn’t have it. Bill Oehmichan tells Brownfield
A field agronomist in eastern Missouri says farmers should be monitoring soybeans for red crown rot, a new soil-borne fungal disease
Some in the ag industry have expressed concern that funds for the USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation weren’t replenished in U.S. House-passed
Un-controlled brush and grass fires have been reported across Missouri this spring. Missouri Fire Marshal Tim Bean says there have been
The director of the Gardner Agricultural Policy Program at the University of Illinois says Friday’s scheduled U.S. Senate vote on a Continuing
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mixed, and feeders were lower, waiting for direct business to develop. Boxed beef
A Minnesota family that converted from a milking parlor to robotic milking says the change improved herd health and allowed them
May corn closed at $4.65 and 1/4, up 4 and 1/2 centsMay soybeans closed at $10.10 and 3/4, up 10 and
Many in the food and ag industries are urging the newly established Make America Healthy Again Commission to prioritize sound science
