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In researching “Wall Street’s Wildfire” and “Cooling China’s Growth Fever,” I caught up with Jim Rogers at his Singapore home.
Chip Flory, editor of Pro Farmer newsletter, offers advice on how to position yourself ahead of Friday’s USDA report.
Jeanne Bernick, Top Producer Issues Editor, discusses her article, “Inside the Carbon Market.”
Hypoxia is not hype. A new report recommends measures to keep nitrogen and phosphorus from floating downstream.
Mexico stepping up sanitary controls
Welcome to 2009
Due to a pricing dispute, Russia’s main gas company, Gazprom, has shut off gas supplies to neighboring Ukraine, Reuters reported earlier this week. The Russia-Ukraine dispute has already hit 18 countries, which depend on gas supplies from the two countries, as gas supplies were reduced or cut off in the last few days.
Yeah I remember December 20th a couple years ago, my wife’s birthday and our first 2 ft snow storm in Colorado for the season, with snow almost every weekend until spring.
As the remarkable year of 2008 ticked to a close, “corn’s move to higher profitability—if preserved through the spring—was probably sufficient to forestall a downturn in plantings, or even encourage a small uptick in plantings,” said Lewis Hagedorn of J.P. Morgan.
Soybean checkoff audit
Iowa State University Extension Economist Steven Johnson believes the Farm Service Administration (FSA) will loosen regulations for renters who use flex lease agreements.
Land sales demand has softened, according to Jim Farrell, president and CEO of Farmers National Company in Omaha, Neb.
It’s time to get back to the basics for soybean weed control
Rule to be submitted to Federal Register today
USDA cotton production details
USDA wheat production details
USDA production details
A continued tough economic outlook and acreage uncertainty put the crowd in a subdued mood at the Beltwide Cotton Conference in San Antonio, Texas, this week.
While crop protection and plant breeding still could provide some growth for agriculture, BASF board member Stefan Marcinowski says future gains will rely primarily on biotechnology. (Source: AgriNews-Pubs; 5/27/08)
Now is the time to be planning your year-end tax decisions.
Some farm group officials wary of flexibility contained in rule
See what’'s new, reminders, important dates and more.
Ethanol critics chuckled when Poet announced last year that it would produce ethanol from corn cobs by 2009. Now, the world’s largest ethanol company has the last laugh.
Due to a pricing dispute, Russia’s main gas company, Gazprom, has shut off gas supplies to neighboring Ukraine...
Jim Bower, president of Bower Trading, talks about what the election means to commodities.
Short-covering seen overnight
Soybean exports on track
Land sales demand has softened, according to Jim Farrell, president and CEO of Farmers National Company in Omaha, Neb.
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