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At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mixed, feeders were higher waiting on direct business.  Feeders had additional support from the lower move in corn. October live cattle closed $.57 lower at $226.32 and December live cattle closed $.25 lower at $225.70. September feeder cattle closed $.67 higher at $345.25 and October feeder cattle The post Cattle futures mixed ahead of direct trade appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.     

The head of AgroLiquid says opening their main research site has given farmers and agribusinesses a place to evaluate the latest technology in real time. Nick Bancroft tells Brownfield the North Central Research Station was created by his grandfather in the early 1990s to show farmers in real time how fertilizer could be managed differently. The post AgroExpo highlights advances in farm technology, research and equipment appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.     

An extension plant pathologist sees a shift in the corn disease spectrum. Daren Mueller with Iowa State University says when fungicide use started to become common, the main pathogens were northern corn leaf blight and gray leaf spot. “And those are diseases that survive in the residue and they sort of hit that lower canopy The post Corn fungicide strategy evolves as disease spectrum shifts appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.     

Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. The USDA’s national good to excellent rating dipped 1% but development is ahead of average, with generally seasonal weather. The trade will continue to watch August weather very closely. There was also position squaring before USDA’s updated supply, demand, and production numbers, out Wednesday at Noon Eastern/11 The post Soybeans, corn, wheat down ahead of WASDE update appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.