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CropsModerate to severe drought covers much of Minnesota as harvest nears, with NASS rating 58 per cent of topsoil short or very short, 62 per cent of corn and 57 per cent of soybeans good or excellent, and pasture 49 per cent poor or very poor, while the state works with USDA on disaster declarations.
LivestockNebraska Extension agricultural economist Shannon Sand works through the arithmetic of overgrazing: a pasture whose production falls 20 per cent drops from 128.2 to 102.6 animal-unit months, a shortfall that has to be bought as hay, and regaining the original carrying capacity can take three to five
CropsWith fertiliser prices high and margins thin, a Burrus Seed agronomist and a University of Illinois soil scientist say soil tests within 10 to 20 per cent of the recommendation, grain testing for real removal rates and variable-rate spreading can cut phosphorus spending without giving up yield.
CropsGrowing degree units in southern Indiana came within 50 of the highest on record from March to August, and with heavy rain and high night temperatures speeding maturity, agronomists at the Farm Progress Show urged growers to scout for crown rot and lodging risk and harvest those fields first.
LivestockOklahoma State economist Derrell Peel says summer's cattle-market correction masked strong fundamentals: feedlot placements at the lowest in the series since 1996, a 33.6-million-head July feeder supply that is the smallest ever, 2026 hay production down 7.9 per cent, and Mexican cattle only slowly
Melissa Moody, who had never sat on a tractor before COVID-19 cost her a job, bought Carl Hoellerer's organic dairy at Cincinnatus, New York, in February with a Farm Service Agency loan and the sale of her house, milking 45 cows on 127 acres with a mentor a phone call away.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension pecan specialist Monte Nesbitt estimates the 2026 Texas crop at about 39 million pounds against 32 million last year, after a wet spring spread scab, downy spot and powdery mildew and a hot, dry August arrived just as kernels began to fill; wholesale prices approached $3
