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Commerce Secretary and U.S. Chamber of Commerce question need for tariff
Which welder to use? Which electrode? Tips for easier, longer-lasting welds.
After months of sprouting, growing and maturing, it’s time to harvest your corn fields. Regardless of if your harvest is in full-swing or still a week away, Mark Hanna, Iowa State University extension agricultural engineer, says making a few adjustments can ensure you have a successful harvest.
Mix the collapse in the financial markets, newly restricted credit and volatile commodity prices and you get the potential for higher margin calls for grain elevators – so high that some may not be able to pay them.
Peterson to push for more permanent solution in next Congress
Bean surprise coming Friday? Jerry Gulke believes if there is a surprise in Friday’'s Crop Report, it will be in soybeans. If you have sales in place, you may want to consider November call options just in case, he says.
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 a crowd of dignitaries, farmers, media and university representatives on hand, Tennessee broke ground on its long-awaited pilot cellulosic ethanol plant Oct. 14.
Impact: Lower entitlement spending ahead, including farm program payment cuts
Biofuels are responsible for 10% of the inflation in food values, and the high volatility in the agricultural commodity markets is likely to continue through 2009, USDA Chief Economist Joseph Glauber says.
Watch and hear about new name and numbering system John Deere is incorporating. Farm Journal Machinery Editor Margy Fischer was in Sarasota, Fla. last week for the Deere roll-out of some of its new technology.
DOJ not blocking Smithfield purchase, however
Got sprouts? Wet conditions and tight husks are causing some kernels to sprout in the ear. Here’s what it means.
Jim Bower, president of Bower Trading, talks about what the election means to commodities.
Democratic Party to confront challenging agenda
Excessive rains across the Plains could be jeopardizing the health of the U.S. hard red winter wheat crop, analysts at weather research firm Planalytics say.
Corn cobs could soon contribute to the nation’s fuel supply. Poet is currently expanding its corn ethanol facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa, into one of the world’s first cellulosic ethanol plants. Once complete in 2011, Project Liberty, will produce 125 million gallons of ethanol per year, with 25 million gallons coming from corn cobs.
Fieldwork came to a halt across North Dakota in recent days as a barrage of ice and snow brought more complications to an already slow harvest pace, according to AgWeb Crop Comments.
Persistent drought is draining resources from farmers and ranchers in several counties across the Lone Star State with the inadequate field moisture deteriorating crop quality and forcing ranchers to dip into their supplemental feed stocks prematurely.
A farm economy that’s swung from unparalleled optimism to uncertainty in just a matter of months might appear to be a repeat of two decades ago, but there’s more to the story than meets the eye, said two Purdue University agricultural economists.
CQ now adds president of National Black Farmers Assn. as among Ag Secretary possibilities