Machinery
Proponents and opponents step up as EPA considers maximum ethanol blend percentage
Monsanto funds global improvement by funding college educations.
The low costs you’ve been seeing at the gas station are helping your corn and soybean basis prices. JC Hoyt, director of risk management services for Cash Grain Bids, says lower fuel costs across the U.S. are supporting strong basis gains this year.
Top Producer has gathered several agricultural economists and marketing specialists to provide pre-report and post-report analysis on the March 31 Grain Stocks and Prospective Planting USDA reports. Check back often as more audio analysis will be added Friday, Monday and Tuesday.
All the careful maintenance and adjusting we do to planters in the shop before planting is wasted if we don’'t take time to match planter settings to soil conditions. Here are six critical planter adjustments to help you optimize yields.
Talk about a horse of a different color. The power for this prototype tractor is supplied by hydrogen.
Latest study is part of debate to boost maximum ethanol blend percentage beyond 10 percent
Earmarks and estate tax language are just two issues Democratic leaders face when lawmakers return
‘Effort a step toward better and more targeted verificqtion activies that will reduce erroneous payments’
Brought to you by DuPont, Sponsor of the 2009 Commodity Classic AgDay reports from the 2009 Commodity Classic in Grapevine, Texas. This special edition includes insight on the four commodity groups that make this event possible - the National Corn Growers Association, the American Soybean Association, the National Association of Wheat Growers, and the National Sorghum Growers. Watch Now! Segment One Segment Two Segment Three Segment Four
Larry Moffett woke early this morning with a feeling that he needed to get up and moving. The cattleman raises prize winning Polled Herefords near Decatur, Ill.
Jerry Gulke, owner of Strategic Marketing Services and Top Producer columnist, says farmers need to watch how the markets close today, following USDA’s Supply and Demand Report.
CRS report gives detailed background on ethanol blend hike issues
Comments seen as effort to restore consumer confidence
Can you not figure out how to keep that elusive deer out of your crop field? Or, would you really like to make that naughty opossum leave your barn? The answers to your questions and more are waiting at the Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management.
Another Univ. of Minnesota study brings different analysis from ethanol industry watchers
Dec. 1 EPA deadline on Growth Energy petition filed March 6
That’s a question we received from one forward thinking farmer following Alaska’s Mt. Redoubt eruption.
Rice planting is almost completed near St. Martinville, La. As the new growing season begins, Jeff Durand, of the Louisiana Rice Growers Association, discusses the concerns and challenges for rice producers.
Perspective and outlook on long road ahead for climate change legislation
Controversial regulation worries biofuel proponents
Growing a specialty crop can require special machinery. Steve Conrad farms in Webbers Falls, Okla., and when it comes to harvesting his spinach crop the best machine for the job was sourced from their farm shop.
USDA pushing to reopen markets
It could take weeks - or longer - before U.S. pork producers recover from export restrictions tied to a worldwide influenza outbreak, said a Purdue University agricultural economist.
Ag chief comments on H1N1, COOL, nutrition and food safety, ag research, and climate change