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Margin changes due to Dodd-Frank regulations helped trigger liquidation in grain/soy futures late Wednesday, but markets stabilized overnight.
Cattle called mixed on ideas yesterday’s losses overdone.
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Concerns about tight old-crop stocks resurface.
The Farm Progress Growing Degree Days application measures the maturity of your crop by viewing current and past growing degree days data for your farm’s location.
If you need crop-protection product information, Agrian Mobile has the largest, most reliable database available.
From Case IH, Farm Forum provides information about equipment, agriculture trends and more.
From Storti mixer wagons, this app will help farmers calculate the optimal feeding mix with real world data, plus stay updated on industry news and real-time market prices for milk and raw materials.
From USDA, this app evaluates nearly 100 different sprayers for droplet size under various operational setups such as nozzles, flow rates and more.
Miller Welding University awards three farmers with trips, tips and prizes.
Create simple alerts that notify you when a commodity price reaches a certain amount.
Free app from Marrone Bio Innovations allows user to calculate proper mix proportions for up to three product.s
Disability insurance can help a farm survive disaster. Are you covered?
Sharp gains in beef values signal near-term low is in.
State-run firm sees Chinese Q2 soybean imports up nearly 15% from year-ago.
But drop in soybean and wheat carryover supportive.
Recent history suggests corn prices will rally this spring/summer to slow use and push corn carryover higher by the end of the 2011-12 marketing year.
Special to The Detroit News"You can do everything right. But if Mother Nature wants to freeze off overnight, you could lose it all."Bob Boehm, manager of the Michigan Farm Bureau’s commodity and marketing departmentTwo days of frost in parts of Michigan likely damaged fruit crops because of the early growing season prompted by unusually warm weather, an industry official said Tuesday.
Animated radar that predicts storm paths and gives weather alerts as well.
This app from Precision Planting functions as a second monitor in your tractor cab so that you can view planter performance in real time.