Farm Journal: Mid-November 2009

Magazine Features

• Reports From Farmers
  
  11/14/2009
  AgWeb Crop Comments span all of farm country
• Tech Journal
  
  11/14/2009
  Data Hitchhikes on Hay Bales, Straight Out of the Box, Another Signal from the Stars
• Tailgate Talk, AgConnect Expo, 2009 crop insurance enrollment
  
  11/13/2009
  Visit us in Orlando during AgConnect Expo, What A Day: Uphill Battles; Stat Rack: Acre enrollment numbers for 2009
• The Dirt on Worms
  
  11/13/2009
  Surprise! Our worm friends can also be exotic invaders.
• One Billion Hungry
  
  11/13/2009
  Agriculture needs technology to meet food shortage.
• Up Instead of Down
  
  11/13/2009
  Grain price crash could boost cotton acreage a bit.
• Biofuels Update
  
  11/13/2009
  Biofuels Develop a Taste for Sugar Beets, More Ethanol Hurts Water
• $100 Ideas
  
  11/13/2009
  Air Hose Organizer, Keep Gates Open on Windy Days, Three-Point Post Puller
• Machinery Journal
  
  11/13/2009
  Art's Way portable grain augers, AGCO Sunflower 7600 series strip-till, Titan III Fertilizer Tank, Yamaha ATVs
• Production Journal
  
  11/13/2009
  Despite the availability of additional time to analyze the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program for 2009, preliminary sign-up results show that less than 8% of farms are enrolled in the program, according to USDA's Farm Service Agency.
• Crop Tech
  
  11/13/2009
  There's finally a herbicide name that actually fits its use. Prequel, a new DuPont herbicide for corn, jump-starts the growing season. Containing the active ingredients rimsulfuron and isoxa-flutole, it's been tested as a burndown and a residual grass and broadleaf herbicide applied pre-emergence in front of conventional and herbicide-tolerant corn hybrids.
• Policy Journal
  
  11/13/2009
  Ag interests were not uniformly pleased with the House version of climate-change legislation—and the initial offering from the Senate (S. 1733) didn't help matters much.

Web Extra

• 2009 Agritechnica Coverage
  
  12/19/2009
  View complete coverage of the 2009 Agritechnica.
• Farm Machinery''s Family Tree
  
  12/19/2009
  Track farm machinery’s family tree.
• Time-Saving Sprayers
  
  12/19/2009
  Watch a Machinery Minute segment to see how new sprayer options can save you time.
• Water Resources
  
  12/12/2009
  Helpful sources of water management information.
• Helpful Soybean Management Resources
  
  12/12/2009
  Use these links to find more information.
• SmartStax Rolls Off Production Line
  
  12/12/2009
  See some of the first bags of DeKalb Brand Genuity SmartStax corn roll off the production line.
• Nitrogen and Carbon Resources
  
  11/13/2009
  Learn more about the carbon penalty you have to prepare to pay with corn.
• Invasive, Non-Native Earthworms
  
  11/13/2009
  Learn more about invasive, non-native worms.
• Find and Manage Soil Compaction
  
  11/13/2009
  Learn more about finding and managing soil compaction.
• Ready for Succession Self-Assessment Tool
  
  11/13/2009
  Use this tool to determine if you are ready for succession.

Columnists

• How to Know When It's Time
  
  12/08/2009
  Your questions about succession answered
• The Other Blue Meat
  
  11/13/2009
  As American taste buds grow more adventurous, innovative producers are responding to the demand for new and unusual, even unwholesome, products to satisfy this craving.
• Feeling the Wet Fall
  
  11/13/2009
  The extremely wet September and October has led to one of the slowest grain harvests on record.
• What This Fall Means to Spring
  
  11/13/2009
  On the way into town this morning, my youngest, Elizabeth, proclaimed that the ruts cut in a newly harvested field we were driving by would be great in a game of hide-and-seek.

Test Plots

• Tap Hybrid N Efficiency
  
  11/14/2009
  Three-year plot concludes with management insights

Corn Navigator

• Compaction Reaction
  
  11/13/2009