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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
Stress can have disastrous effect on corn crop during grain fill period
Participants do hands-on work to learn about genetically modified crops
Read an overview of what can be expected on the 2009 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour.
Crop Tour results from South Dakota.
Brad Parks, deputy director of the Iowa Field Office for NASS, talks about the results he saw from day 3 of the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour.
From late 2007 to date, hog producers have been losing equity, and they are asking how long before the hog market turns around and they can start building equity again.
Top Producer has reported exchange-traded “Weather Contracts” when they were first announced. This year’s delayed planting and immature crops give them new attraction.
Interest has nowhere to go but up. But how high, and how will that impact your operating loans?
Lack of leadership may be the single biggest void in today’s agricultural operations, says Kevin Spafford, Farm Journal columnist and founder of Legacy by Design, a farm succession planning firm.
A leading agricultural economist says it is nearly impossible to verify the reasons for why farmers around the world change their land use, much less to blame it on biofuels production in the U.S.
It’s just a teensy weensy little dab of waterhemp… Unfortunately those small strips could indicate herbicide resistance issues and real problems next year.
Arghhh…more aphids. This time the sap suckers are taking to cornfields. Here’s how to determine if you might have the problem.
There’s been a sunflower swap. Monsanto is selling its sunflower division to Syngenta.
Why is a one-day Corn College being held in Bloomington, Ill., today?
Planning for succession is a big step toward multigenerational success.
I am almost 12, and I want to be a rancher. How do I ask Dad and Grandpa what happens next?
Learn if your family farm is ready for succession.
A family farm is an investment of time, love, money and labor.
During the 2009 Farm Progress Show, Monsanto’s Genuity™ brand, United Way of Decatur and Mid-Illinois and Farm Progress partnered to sponsor the Genuity Farmer Food Drive.
Can you count on prices to be higher after harvest?
Prior planning prevents problems—or at least minimizes them—when dealing with wet corn
Poison hemlock is the focus of our thirdond story in the Space Invaders series.
It’s in a class of it’s own. New herbicides in the Kixor family get at some of today’s toughest weeds.
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