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Iowa farmer says yields have been a pleasant surprise

Thursday, October 10

A southwest Iowa farmer says he’s making good progress on his 2024 harvest. Duane Aistrope raises corn and soybeans near Randolph. “We’ve done two fields of corn early on and then we’ve been on beans ever since then. We’re down to just over 250...

Active summer land sale season a surprise

Tuesday, August 27

The vice president of an Illinois-based farmland brokerage says land values are holding steady at near record levels in a surprisingly active market. Elizabeth Strom, with Murray Wise & Associates, tells Brownfield… “It’s been a really interesting summer.” She says, “There’s actually been more...

Kansas winter wheat harvest a ‘pleasant surprise’

Tuesday, July 2

The Kansas winter wheat harvest has been progressing well ahead of the five-year average pace. Marsha Boswell with the Kansas Wheat Commission says yields are better than expected. “With the drought, people expected it to be yielding a little bit less than it actually...