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Study on benefits of conservation programs also released

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.

Biotech disease resistance has been the holy grail for crop scientists. Commercial traits appear to be one step closer and that’s good news for farmers.

Spend time prepping harvest equipment before storage to reduce problems next fall

A used chemical tanker was built for the task!

The real cost of fertilizer in bushels per acre just went up

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With harvest started, farmers and producers in Iowa need to keep in mind a new harvest weight limit exemption.

The agency touches ag more than ever

Which welder to use? Which electrode? Tips for easier, longer-lasting welds.

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.

House expected to vote Friday on revised plan

Harvest hurries along with these new mega machines. Two new companies join the upper size class this fall.

Forget veggie oil, bio-diesel, power programmers and hydrogen water separators. And hear the gospel of CNG/diesel. The beauty of this system is if I can't find a Compressed Natural Gas fill up station, I just run on diesel.

Key changes made to package to attract more House votes

Whoa! Don't be too anxious to harvest if you sprayed a pesticide this fall.

Top Producer editor Jeanne Bernick, Jeanne Bernick, author of "Inside the Carbon Market" discusses the questions farmers submitted and the planning behind the article.

Ukrainians see their agricultural industry flexing its muscles, evolving out of the old inefficient collective farms left when the Soviet system collapsed in 1991. There is apparent potential for modern technology to turn it into a grain and oilseeds powerhouse, but how the country will achieve that status remains the big question.

The guys gather, eyes popping, in the machinery yard of a 15,000-acre unit of Raiz Agro near the village of Ruzhavka in Ukraine’s Uman region. They’re face-to-face with three brand-new 30-ton monster grain trucks, top-end GPS-equipped combines and tractors, two of the hugest anhydrous am-monia tanks imaginable, 120-ft. boom sprayers and—hold on here—is that a 32-row planter?

Fertilizer facilities in Texas and Louisiana may have weathered Hurricane Ike with only minor damages, but the industry continues to struggle with tight supplies and the impact of a collapsing financial market.

I know snow's not for another month, but towing a trailer on snow is something you want to teach your truck now.

More than 70 vehicle models available in the U.S. are flex-fuel compatible, according to the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition. The organization recently released an updated list of the flex-fuel vehicles.

Senate to follow, but search is on for an alternative budget offset

Lawmakers grouse at speed, lack of protections for consumers

Democrats seek changes to administration proposal