Direct cash cattle trade activity is quiet. Bids have surfaced at $228 live in the South and $360 dressed in the North. But with asking prices at $234 to $235 live in the South, and still not ...

Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying. The USDA’s national good to excellent rating was down 3% on the week and traders are watching forecasts for August very closely. That’s a ...

Brownfield's Jared White interviews Eric Snodgrass. The chief atmospheric scientist with Nutrien Ag Solutions says he expects a record setting El Nino to have significant impacts this fall. Eric ...

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley is encouraged by recent comments by U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer concerning the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement. The Iowa Republican says renewing USMCA would ...

Aug. Class III milk closed at $16.80, down 41 cents ...

Broiler hatchery numbers continue to rise year-over-year, pointing towards higher production. The USDA says 254.026 million broiler-type eggs were set into incubation last week, up 305,000 from the ...

Crop conditions dipped a little in Minnesota over the past week. USDA’s latest weekly crop update shows 77 percent of corn and 78 percent of soybeans in good to excellent condition, still well above ...

Direct cash cattle trade activity is quiet as buyers and sellers continue to prepare for the week ahead. Bids and asking prices have yet to be established. The bulk of the week’s business isn’t ...

A southeastern Illinois beef producer says adequate rains are keeping his pastures in good shape this summer. Cliff Schuette, who raises cattle in Clinton County, tells Brownfield… “We have plenty of ...

The USDA says crop conditions mostly held steady in Iowa last week. Monday’s Crop Progress report says 80% of Iowa corn is in good to excellent condition, unchanged on the week, and soybeans are rated ...

At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures were higher on a bounce, feeders were mixed on spread trade. August live cattle closed $2.25 higher at $227.47 and October live cattle closed $3 ...

One of the biggest healthy food trends in the last few years has been tinned fish. That could be oily fish, which are high in Omega 3s like sardines, mackerel, salmon, or trout.