At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were lower, waiting on direct business to develop.  April live cattle closed $.77 lower at $237.52 and June live cattle closed $.52 lower at $233.80.  March feeder cattle closed $2.67 lower at $364.77 and April feeder cattle closed $1.92 lower at $361.27.  Direct cash cattle trade […]

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An agronomist and crop researcher says drone technology has come a long way in less than a decade. Karl Bubholz is the corn product manager for Renk Seed.  He tells Brownfield that scouting drones are used regularly to monitor plant health on their test plots, and he doesn’t need to wait up to a year […]

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Leaders on the Congressional FFA Caucus and the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee are questioning the direction of the National FFA Organization. In a letter sent to National FFA CEO Scott Stump last week, Jason Smith from Missouri, David Schweikert from Arizona and Tracey Mann from Kansas say FFA’s partnership with Syngenta and ongoing […]

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The Wisconsin State Senate will vote on Wednesday on legislation that would regulate lab-grown animal cells. Assembly Bill 554 would require the label “lab grown meat” for any food product containing cultured animal cells or animal tissue derived from cultured cells.  Jason Mugnaini with Wisconsin Farm Bureau says the state’s ag coalition strongly supports this […]

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