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FarmOp Capital and Compeer Financial to add additional financial services

FarmOp Capital and Compeer Financial are partnering to provide Midwest farmers with more lending options. The joint venture, announced Monday, will make FarmOp lending tools available to Compeer Financial farmers in Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin to help improve balance sheets for 2025. For more information on the additional offerings...

Concerns about potential tariffs in 2025

The director of trade policy at the U.S. Grains Council is concerned about potential tariffs disrupting trade efforts in 2025. Andrew Brandt tells Brownfield… “President-elect Trump is coming back,” he says. “He has not hidden the fact that he did tariffs the first time...

Wisconsin ag impact on economy grows

Cabbage field in Wisconsin The economic impact of agriculture on Wisconsin’s economy is 11.5 billion dollars higher in just five years.  New data from the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics shows the impact of agriculture in 2017 was 104.8 billion...

Managing risk in a tighter ag economy

A senior vice president of insurance says farms will have to adjust their risk management options in this lower-price environment.  Tony Jesina with Farm Credit Services of America says the market trends have not been friendly to the farmer when looking at commodity prices....

Channel brand expands seed offerings for 2025

A Channel technical agronomist says the brand is offering an extended lineup of soybean seed treatments in 2025. Richard Turner says several products performed well in 2024. “A new 109 day that we had this year in plots in 2024,” he says. “Also had...

North Dakota regulators give carbon dioxide pipeline green light

The proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline project has the approval of North Dakota regulators.  North Dakota’s Public Service Commission voted unanimously Friday to approve a siting permit for the modified, 333-mile route within that state.  North Dakota denied Summit’s pipeline permit in 2023. Summit Carbon Solutions...

Setting the stage for cattle markets in 2025

Without the July Cattle Inventory report, much of the cattle industry continues to look for any substantial signs of retention and herd expansion. Livestock economist Scott Brown says this month won’t be any different. “Livestock slaughter, one of the big ones here, of course,...

NRCS & Ducks Unlimited announce Illinois partnership

The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced a new $18.96 million Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) in Illinois. Shannon Allen, RCPP coordinator in Illinois with NRCS, says the agency is partnering with Ducks Unlimited (DU) to reduce sedimentation in the Mississippi River...

Cash dairy prices mixed Monday

Cash dairy prices were mixed again Monday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  Dry whey prices were down $0.0150 at $0.64. Three sales were recorded, ranging from $0.64 to $0.65.  Forty-pound cheese blocks were up $0.0050 at $1.6975.  Five sales were recorded, ranging from $1.6825 to...

Tar spot is here to stay

A regional agronomist at AgriGold says farmers should select hybrids that have a higher resistance to tar spot in 2025. West Central Illinois based Brett Leahr says the disease is here to stay. “We had stuff this year, even on rotated acres, we saw it come...

Corn export inspections up on week, others down

The USDA says that as of the week ending November 14th, corn, soybean, and wheat export inspections are ahead of the respective paces need to meet projections for the current marketing year. The 2024/25 marketing year started June 1st for wheat and September 1st...

Cheesemakers, dairy cooperative pleased with final FMMO decision

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service released their final decision on the federal milk marketing orders last week, and some groups are satisfied with what farmers and their cooperatives will vote on. The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association is pleased with USDA’s changes between last spring’s proposed...