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Yes, there’s such thing as a good breakdown. Studies hint that shredding stalks may be the ticket to higher yields in continuous corn.
Poop. The latest ethanol aids are cropping up in some very surprising and smelly places.
Got the urge to strip and go native? Prairie grass may be just the ticket to reducing erosion.
If you’re new to towing you may fully understand the EZ Connector, a wonderful tool. If you are a trailer expert and spent time with that little screw driver redoing your trailer plugs after they pulled apart or using your knife to scrape corrosion off the trailer plug blades and off course using the straight edge screw driver to bend the blades so they will connect to the male plug, you’ll relate to a better way.
Payload and trailer tongue weight come from the same capacity limit. Which makes hard sided heavy truck campers difficult to use with trailers.
If the right side mirrors says “objects in mirror are closer than they appear” throw them away. When you’re backing up a trailer, you need to see the same distance view in booth your mirrors. Having good big towing mirrors with spotter mirrors makes towing, turning and backing safer.
Input costs, especially for fertilizer, have been all over the board this past year and don’t look like they’ll settle down anytime soon. Properly managing your fertilizer applications, amounts and options can definitely save you heartache and cash during next year’s growing season. Lloyd Murdock, extension soil specialist at the University of Kentucky, provides some advice on how not to make fertilizer mistakes.
In this machinery maker’s view, 2009 will bring a return to 2007 levels.
Obama’s top economic planners meet on coming stimulus package
Alan Brugler of Brugler Marketing and Management says there were some supportive indicators in yesterday’s revised USDA report, but he is watching today’s interest rate announcement from the Fed more closely.
In researching “Wall Street’s Wildfire” and “Cooling China’s Growth Fever,” I caught up with Jim Rogers at his Singapore home.
Chip Flory, editor of Pro Farmer newsletter, offers advice on how to position yourself ahead of Friday’s USDA report.
Jeanne Bernick, Top Producer Issues Editor, discusses her article, “Inside the Carbon Market.”
Hypoxia is not hype. A new report recommends measures to keep nitrogen and phosphorus from floating downstream.
Mexico stepping up sanitary controls
Due to a pricing dispute, Russia’s main gas company, Gazprom, has shut off gas supplies to neighboring Ukraine, Reuters reported earlier this week. The Russia-Ukraine dispute has already hit 18 countries, which depend on gas supplies from the two countries, as gas supplies were reduced or cut off in the last few days.
Yeah I remember December 20th a couple years ago, my wife’s birthday and our first 2 ft snow storm in Colorado for the season, with snow almost every weekend until spring.
As the remarkable year of 2008 ticked to a close, “corn’s move to higher profitability—if preserved through the spring—was probably sufficient to forestall a downturn in plantings, or even encourage a small uptick in plantings,” said Lewis Hagedorn of J.P. Morgan.
Iowa State University Extension Economist Steven Johnson believes the Farm Service Administration (FSA) will loosen regulations for renters who use flex lease agreements.
Land sales demand has softened, according to Jim Farrell, president and CEO of Farmers National Company in Omaha, Neb.
A continued tough economic outlook and acreage uncertainty put the crowd in a subdued mood at the Beltwide Cotton Conference in San Antonio, Texas, this week.
While crop protection and plant breeding still could provide some growth for agriculture, BASF board member Stefan Marcinowski says future gains will rely primarily on biotechnology. (Source: AgriNews-Pubs; 5/27/08)