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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.
Five Syngenta hybrids show sensitivity to glyphosate treatments. Take care when you spray.
Top Producer brings you exclusive audio analysis of USDA’s May Cattle on Feed report. For analysis of what the report means to producers, listen to University of Missouri Economist Ronald Plain and Steve Kay of Cattle Buyers Weekly.
Flooding crisis in the Hawkeye State.
In the scramble to plant corn this spring, soybean planting might have been bumped down on the to-do list. Palle Pedersen, assistant professor of agronomy at Iowa State University, offers the following suggestions to combating the many soybean-production problems currently facing farmers.
CFTC officials dispute fndings of congressional study
Are hog producers crying wolf, or is wolf at door with one foot inside?
Sen. Lugar provides food policy suggestions for G8 summit
Another session set for today
T. Boone Pickens, a nearly 60-year veteran of the oil and gas business, is worried about the U.S.’s energy future. So, he’s trying to do something about it.
How are your corn fields progressing? What about your neighbor’s? With the extremely volatile corn market, crop conditions across the country are just as important as the status of your own fields. Read and see how the corn crop is looking in Missouri, Texas, Nebraska and Tennessee.
A bi-partisan Congressional delegation led by Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer will travel to Cartagena, Colombia, on July 18 to emphasize the importance of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA).
There’s a new spin on tractors—the rotating cab isn’t just for fun, it’s functional.
Officials from ADM, John Deere & Co., DuPont and Monsanto Co. to unveil new group today
Common purslane is as common as grass in the weed bank, but have you considered giving it some room on your dinner table.
Meanwhile, energy legislation facing uphill battle
By gosh and by golly, you can reduce eroded areas in your fields.
False claims netted farmer $400,000
Top Producer brings you exclusive audio analysis of USDA’s July Cattle on Feed report. For analysis of what the report means to producers, listen to University of Missouri Economist Glenn Grimes and Steve Kay of Cattle Buyers Weekly.
Spring Wheat yields in Southwest Minnesota and Southeast North Dakota are estimated to be lower than last year, according to crop scouts on the Wheat Quality Council’s Hard Spring Wheat and Durum Tour.
Officials say crops won’t be hurt as much as expected
USDA says crops weren’t hurt as bad as feared
Agency says it found bacteria on peppers and in irrigation water