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Fungicides work on corn and it is not just about disease prevention. It is also about longer stay green and better standability. Regarding the pump in yield from fungicides, one industry expert says: “The data is very positive… (fungicides) seem to be effective when disease pressure isn’t always obvious.” (Source: DTNAg.com, 2/19/08)
In tests over the past five years in cotton, BASF and university researchers have found that Headline gives growers a 65 pounds-per-acre yield increase while controlling foliar diseases.
More than half of the 2007 winning participants in the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) annual yield contest relied on BASF crop protection products, particularly Headline® fungicide, to propel them into the winner’s circle. (Source: AgriMarketing.com; 2/5/08)
Scott Asher, BASF Diversified Regional Manager, says that field trials have shown overall improved plant health when using Headline fungicide on cotton, which translates into increased yield and quality at harvest. (Source: Agwired.com, 01/09/08)
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Results from the most extensive on-farm trial program confirm powerful disease control is linked with consistent average yield boosts of 12 to 16 bu/A in corn and 4 to 8 bu/A in soybeans with Headline ® fungicide.
BASF is getting into the seed treatment business in a big way. Going into this February, BASF offered three seed treatment products. By 2009, though, BASF will bring its seed treatment offerings up to 11. (Source: Successful Farming; 2/29/2008)
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Rarely is the link between producers and consumer direct. A web-based marketing tool, Food Industry MarketMaker, is hoping to change that by providing direct paths between anyone who eats or produces food.
Muddy water is reaching the top of grain bins in parts of drainage district No. 7 where Farmer and DeKalb/Asgrow field advisor Jeff Hedges lives and farms. There are thousands of homes with water, he estimates, and only a handful of people he knows have flood insurance.
Five Syngenta hybrids show sensitivity to glyphosate treatments. Take care when you spray.
Top Producer brings you exclusive audio analysis of USDA’s May Cattle on Feed report. For analysis of what the report means to producers, listen to University of Missouri Economist Ronald Plain and Steve Kay of Cattle Buyers Weekly.
Flooding crisis in the Hawkeye State.
In the scramble to plant corn this spring, soybean planting might have been bumped down on the to-do list. Palle Pedersen, assistant professor of agronomy at Iowa State University, offers the following suggestions to combating the many soybean-production problems currently facing farmers.
CFTC officials dispute fndings of congressional study
Are hog producers crying wolf, or is wolf at door with one foot inside?
Sen. Lugar provides food policy suggestions for G8 summit
Another session set for today
T. Boone Pickens, a nearly 60-year veteran of the oil and gas business, is worried about the U.S.’s energy future. So, he’s trying to do something about it.
How are your corn fields progressing? What about your neighbor’s? With the extremely volatile corn market, crop conditions across the country are just as important as the status of your own fields. Read and see how the corn crop is looking in Missouri, Texas, Nebraska and Tennessee.
A bi-partisan Congressional delegation led by Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer will travel to Cartagena, Colombia, on July 18 to emphasize the importance of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA).