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Assistant Attorney General Varney has indicated her division will put more focus on competition in agriculture
The recession is a mixed bag for consumer demand for ag commodities, according to economists at Rabobank.
In the March 2009 issue of Top Producer, tax consultant Lance Fulton with Kennedy & Coe offered a unique plan for building a retirement fund with grain while also reducing the burden of paying self-employment tax on that grain in the article Pay Less at Tax Time.
Soft red winter wheat producers face a favorable pricing scenario heading into harvest because of rising prices and an opportunity to earn a large return from a storage hedge, according to U of I Extension Economist Darrel Good.
Larry Steckel, University of Tennessee weed specialist, discusses how resistant weeds are spreading in his state and what farmers are doing to control the invasion.
A volatile economy is not stopping a company that produces a volatile product from expanding.
Illinois farmers now have the opportunity to recycle their agrichemical containers for free. The Illinois Department of Agriculture has arranged for several collection sites to accept the containers.
Greasy, grimy grubs. Did your fields turn up polka dotted with white grubs this spring? They could be feeding on corn and soybean roots.
Global farmland investors share their “must dos” when investing here or abroad
At 10 p.m. last night, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Acting Ranking Minority Member, released a 247-page report entitled, Excessive Speculation in the Wheat Market.
Wheat harvest was well underway throughout this region. Charlie Hinkebein was using floater tires to get his out near Chaffee, Missouri.
A major step for the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 was made yesterday as House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn. and Energy Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. reached an agreement.
Jim Bower, president of Bower Trading, provides pre-report analysis for the June 30 Acreage and Grain Stocks USDA reports.
Soybean research funding in South Dakota is helping to find natural solutions for soybean aphids.
New report shows impacts achieved by farmers since mid-1990s.
This new corn can give you some sugar, produce grain and be used for biomass—all while using less nitrogen.
Farmers are no strangers to cycles—production and prices of everything you produce swing from too much to too little and back, almost yearly.
Everywhere we turn, we hear of impending inflation and rising interest rates.
A rising number of farmers continue to adopt genetically engineered crops, according to a new study from USDA. Since their introduction in 1996, farmers have rapidly accepted genetically engineered crops.
Last September, a Top Producer survey found that readers’ attitudes toward the general farm economy had slipped from 54% positive last spring to 39% in September.
What’s crawling around your corn fields right now? If you haven’t ventured out between the cornstalks lately, several pests could be feeding on your precious corn.
Nearly 60 different nematodes can attack corn in North America, says Kurt Jones, technical manager for Syngenta Seed Care.
Multiple pests can feed on your corn plants. While you might not be able to combat them all, Syngenta Seeds is working on a new seed trait that could battle the majority of pests.
How sweet it is...this new manure management technology pays off by reducing odor and emissions. It’s good for hogs too.