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Key changes made to package to attract more House votes

Fertilizer facilities in Texas and Louisiana may have weathered Hurricane Ike with only minor damages, but the industry continues to struggle with tight supplies and the impact of a collapsing financial market.

Ukrainians see their agricultural industry flexing its muscles, evolving out of the old inefficient collective farms left when the Soviet system collapsed in 1991. There is apparent potential for modern technology to turn it into a grain and oilseeds powerhouse, but how the country will achieve that status remains the big question.

The guys gather, eyes popping, in the machinery yard of a 15,000-acre unit of Raiz Agro near the village of Ruzhavka in Ukraine’s Uman region. They’re face-to-face with three brand-new 30-ton monster grain trucks, top-end GPS-equipped combines and tractors, two of the hugest anhydrous am-monia tanks imaginable, 120-ft. boom sprayers and—hold on here—is that a 32-row planter?

Top Producer editor Jeanne Bernick, Jeanne Bernick, author of “Inside the Carbon Market” discusses the questions farmers submitted and the planning behind the article.

With harvest started, farmers and producers in Iowa need to keep in mind a new harvest weight limit exemption.

House expected to vote Friday on revised plan