A Minnesota specialty crop producer is urging Congress to reauthorize USDA’s Local Food Purchase Assistance Program. Dan Zimmerli, a vegetable grower from Waseca County, says the previous administration launched the program through the Commodity Credit Corporation in late 2022. “Which provided money for schools and daycares and so on to purchase food from farms like […]
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The vice president of government affairs at the National Pork Producers Council says an extension of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement would benefit
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were higher ahead of the week’s business and Friday’s On Feed numbers
Congress has approved legislation allowing schools to serve whole milk. U.S. House Ag Committee chair Glenn “GT” Thompson says the elimination of
Dicamba resistant waterhemp has been confirmed in west-central Missouri. Kevin Bradley with University of Missouri Extension tells Brownfield multiple rounds of
China has been buying U.S. soybeans weekly since late October, but the CEO of the American Soybean Association says it’s still
Soybeans were mixed on spread trade. Beans consolidated, with China buying another 136,000 tons of 2025/26 U.S. soybeans ahead of the
An ag economist says the volatility in the cattle markets is expected to continue. Josh Maples is with Mississippi State University
A northeast Kansas farmer says he’s not planning any cutbacks in his fungicide budget for 2026. Scott Gigstad says fungicide use
Mar. corn $4.39 and 3/4, down 1 centJan. soybeans $10.71 and 3/4, down 5 centsJan. soybean meal $303.50, up $1.00Jan soybean
