Sessions take place on second floor

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Minnesota Extension Scientist Dan Kaiser and water resources educator Brad Carlson.

This training looks at average climate conditions including soil temperature, soil moisture status, precipitation, and evapotranspiration together with an eye on the calendar date. The implications of deviation from average are discussed with respect to adjusting N management practices based on condition.

The Southern Minnesota Irrigators Association will be holding its annual meeting on Saturday, March 18 from 8:30-10:30 a.m.

This session provides a specific meeting time for active farmer/irrigators from southern Minnesota.

All farmers who are currently irrigating (or have plans to start pumping water soon) are encouraged to attend. The primary focus is organization and management of the Southern Minnesota Irrigators Association.

Wrapping up the 2023 NAFP sessions is “Let’s Talk Cover Crops With The People Doing It,” sponsored by Saddle Butte Ag. From 11 a.m.–1 p.m., Saddle Butte Seed, Inc. Regional Manager TJ Kartes will review cover crop economics, direct marketing, and how to kill cover crops with other herbicide programs. Kartes will be joined by Andy Linder – a farmer from Easton Minn. who will discuss his cover crop experience and how he applies economics to his cover crops. v costs continue to crimp spot margins. This has led to increased dairy cow slaughter.”

“USDA made minor adjustments to domestic corn and soybean balance sheets in the February World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report, although sizable production cuts were noted for Argentina. The corn crop was reduced 5 million tons from January to 47 million while the soybean crop was cut 4.5 million tons to 41 million. Further cuts are expected as the country has been decimated by drought during their growing season. This will significantly reduce global supplies of corn and soybean meal which has kept both markets elevated at historically high levels. Expectations are growing for increased corn acreage in the United States this season given profitability dynamics among competing crops, and the USDA’s Outlook Forum at the end of the month is expected to provide the first set of estimates,” the Margin Watch concluded.

In politics, it appears that so-called “identity politics” is even ruling the dairy industry. The Food and Drug Administration issued a draft guidance this week which allows plant-based beverages to continue using the term ‘milk’ and allows for such beverages to include a “voluntary” nutrient statement on its label.

The draft drew fire from the Wisconsin-based American Dairy Coalition and other dairy groups. Dairy processors had not issued a statement as of our deadline.

The National Milk Producers Federation’s Jim Mulhern said the draft is “A step toward labeling integrity for consumers of dairy products, even as it falls short of ending the decades-old problem of misleading plant-based labeling using dairy terminology. By acknowledging the utter lack of nutritional standards prevalent in plant-based beverages and the confusion over nutritional value that’s prevailed in the marketplace because of the unlawful use of dairy terms, FDA’s proposed guidance will provide greater transparency that’s sorely needed for consumers to make informed choices. The decision to permit such beverages to continue inappropriately using dairy terminology violates FDA’s own standards of identity which clearly define dairy terms as animal-based products,” says NMPF.

Grade A nonfat dry milk closed Feb. 24 at $1.215 per pound, down a half-cent on the week and 64.5 cents below a year ago, with 10 sales put on the board for the week.

Dry whey finished the week at 46.5 cents per pound, up 1.5 cents, but 31.5 cents below a year ago. There were four CME sales reported for the week.

Lee Mielke is a syndicated columnist who resides in Everson, Wash. His weekly column is featured in newspapers across the country and he may be reached at lkmielke@juno.com.

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