Farm Journal: September 2008

Magazine Features

• Tips to Better Concrete
  
  08/27/2008
  Concrete involves more than 2x4s and a scoop shovel
• $100 Ideas
  
  08/27/2008
  Blowing Off Baler Knotters, Portable Press, A Ride Home
• Machinery Journal
  
  08/27/2008
  Great Plains Drills, Planters and Tillage, Bobcat Toolcat Utility Vehicles, Claas Tractors and Harvesters
• Technology Journal
  
  08/27/2008
  Thanks to a software upgrade, Precision Planting's 20/20 SeedSense monitor is available with GPS Mapping Support Tools. A partnership with MapShots Inc. provides the Windows driver and a free GPS Mapping Viewer
• Policy Journal
  
  08/27/2008
  USDA is still putting the rules and regulations together for the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program. USDA Deputy Secretary Chuck Conner says it won't be ready in time for winter wheat farmers to sign up before they plant. Those farmers, however, will have the opportunity to make the one-time election retroactively.
• New Products
  
  08/27/2008
  Need a hand stepping into the bed of your pickup? The Step Up design attaches to your truck's 2" receiver (regardless of make, model or year) and provides two step configurations. By pulling the spring-loaded pins, an 8x8 non-slip step swings out from each side of the receiver to form an 8x17 step that helps you step into the pickup bed when the tailgate is open.
• Crop Tech
  
  08/27/2008
  The postemergence herbicide formerly known as Liberty is taking on a more powerful personality. Get comfortable with the name Ignite because it's the herbicide you'll be pairing with the LibertyLink trait in corn, soybeans, cotton and canola.
• Production Journal: The First Graduates from Our Corn College
  
  08/27/2008
  They came by buses, cars, trucks, motorcycles and RVs to the Farm Journal Corn College and left brimming over with ideas.
• From the Inside Out
  
  08/27/2008
  To analyze total combine performance, get out of the cap to inspect the details
• A Raging River Recedes in Defeat
  
  08/27/2008
  The spirit of volunteerism and farmer ingenuity triumphs in the Fabius River Drainage District
• Wheat’s Wake-Up Call
  
  08/27/2008
  High prices, higher risk cause alarm in wheat industry
• Field Notes: Plan Ahead for Smooth Tiling
  
  08/27/2008
  A tile plow has been an excellent investment for my brother and me.
• Can Cotton Acres Come Back?
  
  08/27/2008
  After 2009 anything is possible
• Rugged, Reliable Sprayer
  
  08/27/2008
  After 12 years of service, this machine still has a tune in its step
• On the New Ag Frontier
  
  08/27/2008
  Ukrainians see their agricultural industry flexing its muscles, evolving out of the old inefficient collective farms left when the Soviet system collapsed in 1991.
• Conservation Now
  
  08/27/2008
  No-Till Savings, No-Till Grows in Indiana, Satellites Track Conservation Tillage Trends
• Global Market Standout
  
  08/27/2008
  Farm family travels to China to gain perspective
• Hype Over Hypertension
  
  08/27/2008
  High blood pressure affects about a third of Americans, increasing their risk of heart attack and stroke
• Plan to Attack Winter Weeds
  
  08/27/2008
  Yield robbers in no-till can be controlled with fall herbicide treatments
• From the Field: Moving On From 2008
  
  08/27/2008
  Ken Ferrie answers questions about no-till farming and corn-on-corn nitrogen issues.
• Priming the Pump
  
  08/27/2008
  E85 fuel expansion gains momentum
• Editor's Notebook: Make 2008 A Milestone Year
  
  08/27/2008
  My parents drilled into me that it's not what happens that matters, it's what you do about it.
• Biofuels Update
  
  08/27/2008
  U.S. Leads Wind Power Growth, Biodiesel Hurdle Cleared
• Tailgate Talk, Your Chance to Watch and Win
  
  08/27/2008
  Your Chance to Watch and Win, What A Day!: Down but Not Out; Stat Rack: 2008 Corn College

Web Extra

• Hurricane Ike’s Impact Lingers
  
  10/04/2008
  Hurricane Ike’s 110 mile per hour winds may be gone, but the impact lingers in Texas and Louisiana.
• Ukraine Insight
  
  09/08/2008
  Melania Ivanivka, a farmer in Ukraine describes the past and current farming situations in her country.
• Soy in Transition
  
  08/28/2008
  Southern soybean growers will add a new brand name to their vocabulary for the 2009 growing season when Deltapine soybean varieties are transitioned to Monsanto's Asgrow soybean brand.

Columnists

• I Could Be Dead by Then
  
  08/27/2008
  I read somewhere that age 50 is the new 40. OK, although I'm not exactly clear why the "old" 40 needed updating, let's assume this is a good thing. Using this line of thought, I now have decided that 60 is the new 59.
• Is the Bear Market Over?
  
  08/27/2008
  The sinking sound you have been hearing in the background since the end of June has been the more than $52 billion net change in the Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean values. We are all shell-shocked right now and wondering what happened to spur the plunge.
• Compensation for Time
  
  08/27/2008
  Learn how to fairly compensate for farming labor, when family ties are concerned.

Cotton Navigator

• Route 1: Apply Accordingly
  
  08/27/2008
  Curb fertilizer costs and push yields with plenty of planning and by remembering the basics

Soybean Navigator

• Route 1: Pod Power
  
  08/27/2008
  Pick the right genetics to pump soybean productivity

Corn Navigator

• Route 2: CSI: Corn Field
  
  08/27/2008
  Yield maps uncover problem areas, which let you devise management zones