Crops
Farmers on the Texas High Plains get used to weather oddities but the past week’s cool weather and widespread rainfall threw a potentially tricky curveball their way.
Tuesday marked the grand opening of the St. Louis Urea Center and the Stabilized Nitrogen Center in St. Louis, Mo. The $20 million project created a one-of-a-kind urea manufacturing plant and facility.
Yield robbers in no-till can be controlled with fall herbicide treatments
Ken Ferrie answers questions about no-till farming and corn-on-corn nitrogen issues.
USDA released their October crop production reports this morning. Check out this analysis.
Heading into 2010, Ken Ferrie shares the top questions he is receiving from farmers.
New Senate Ag Committee Chair Has a Packed Agenda, Top News From Washington
The Crary Air Reel is a patented reel system equipped with high-velocity air. The Air Reel replaces your factory reel and adds the benefit of air while keeping your header more compact, providing better visibility.
Lance Tarochione, Illinois field advisor for DeKalb, discusses the innovations Monsanto and DeKalb have coming down the pipe for corn farmers.
New products are featured. The BioDieselMaster from Biodiesel Solutions is a fully automated, continuous-flow biodiesel production system that delivers up to 1,000 gal. of ASTM-grade biodiesel per day (42 gal. per hour). It accepts a variety of feedstocks, such as low free fatty acid vegetable oils (canola, camelina, soy, etc.) and animal tallow.
John Endsley would wrap each soybean that passes through his seed house in bubble wrap if it were practical. Instead, the manager of Monsanto Company’s Mason City, Ill., soybean plant oversees a mechanical bulk-handling system
Winter Hardy Varieties, Viral Victory, Avoid Head Blight Headaches, Down With Diseases, Go Go Genome, Biotech Wheat Vote
Wheat in the Big Apple, New Fungicide Portfolio, Watch Out Ug99, and a BioTech Trait Can Improve Crop Efficiency
The new decade may have started with Southerners shivering, but it wasn’t enough to discourage the first outbreaks of soybean rust. The state of Florida turned red with the first positive soybean rust outbreak of the year on Jan. 4. Outbreaks in Louisiana and Georgia followed a few days later. Soybean rust has also been reported on jicama in the state of Tamaulipas in Altamira municipality in Mexico.
SmartStax is the latest in trait technology, combining multiple modes of action against above- and belowground pests. That means multiple Bt proteins are expressed throughout the entire plant, providing whole-plant protection. As an insect ingests the multiple modes of action, the proteins attack two areas of its midgut. This reduces concerns about insect resistance and allows for reduced refuge requirements.
In the next four decades, Georgia farmers will need 20% more water to produce their crops, says a recent University of Georgia report put together by a team of crop and weather experts.
The principles of adhesion and cohesion are well understood by irrigating farmers. They use those concepts every time they water a crop.