River traffic doubles, grain bids hold — and the timber haulers roll right through it all

1. 07:42 CT · Market desk

   Kansas elevators quoting $6.90/bu on HRW, up a penny on export talk.

2. 07:15 CT · Crop desk

   Corn rated 6% poor on Sunday's walk-throughs — beans holding at 78% good.

3. 06:58 CT · Forest desk

   Lake State mill moves to double shift on pine pulpwood run.

4. 06:30 CT · Weather desk

   Frost tube out again for the northern townships Thursday dawn.

5. 06:02 CT · Livestock desk

   Cattle cash rang $1.87 dressed at four interior plants yesterday.

6. 05:40 CT · Market desk

   Gulf barge out 36k tons corn; no new tenders posted overnight.

1. WHRW wheat/ bu$6.90▲ +0.08
2. SSoybeans TSU/ bu$11.42▼ -0.06
3. CCorn, no. 2 yellow/ bu$4.31▲ +0.03

Le tracé correspond aux huit dernières liquidations — un relevé, pas une prévision.

• Ag techWeed-mapper drones pass field calibration at three co-ops

  Spray-on-sight rigs hit 94% spot-kill in side-by-side plots. Burn-down passes are down a third. The setup that beat the boom sprayer in replicated trials last season held up across three co-ops this fall: a push-nozzle rig, a camera gantry, and a shared mapping drone that sends the prescription to both. Growers on the walk-through kept saying the same thing — the tech is finally boring, which means it works.

  Mon · 6 min de lecture

• IronBattery backhoe puts up a full dig-day on one charge

  1,400 dig-cycle count at the county fair display lot. Noiseless digging was the real crowd-pleaser. Two utility contractors ran the machine side-by-side with a diesel backhoe on the same trench course. Same cycle count by 4 p.m., same hole. The operator's complaint: quiet machines get ridden harder because nobody feels the shift change.

  Sat · 4 min de lecture

• ForestryAutonomous feller-buncher pilots on a private Lake State circle

  Operator sits in the landing shack on a tablet — one machine at a time, nine hours a day. The pilots are careful and honest about the limits: no live standing timber in wind over 15, no frozen ground yet. Land owners want it for the steep ground nobody wants to walk. Haul contractors want it because a machine that runs 9 hours is a machine that feeds the chip plant steady.

  Thu · 7 min de lecture

• Weather techSoil-moisture mesh in four watersheds goes public

  Free API, hourly readings, honest gap notes. Your frost model will like the 2 a.m. numbers. Four watershed districts pooled grant money for tube probes and cellular backhaul, and the feed is now open to any resident with an email address. The dashboard even shows what's offline — a first on a public ag weather page, and the reason the counties trusted it.

  Tue · 3 min de lecture