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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.
Watch and listen as Pam Smith, Farm Journal Seeds & Production Editor, provides a field report from Decatur, Ill.
Letter sent to Vilsack about going against Congressional intent
Wolverine, new wheat and barley herbicide, recently registered by Bayer CropScience will help producers affected by flooding and late planting dates, he says. Wolverine offers control of more than 60 hard-to-control grasses and broadleaf weeds at a single rate.
During the Bayer CropScience Herbicide Innovation Tour, Farm Journal Editor Pam Smith caught up with Frank Rothweiler, of Bayer CropScience. Listen in as Rothweiler discusses the new herbicide active ingredients Bayer CropScience is bringing to the global market.
New products hitting the market fom Bayer CropScience provide greater crop compatibility and protection says Brent Philbrook, Bayer CropScience product manager for herbicide development.
How has your farm evolved over the years? Do you have photos to illustrate those changes? If so, e-mail or mail in your to be entered in the Asgrow Deliver on Your Farm photo contest. Simply submit a photo of your farm from the past and a photo from today.
Proponents and opponents step up as EPA considers maximum ethanol blend percentage
Monsanto funds global improvement by funding college educations.
The low costs you’ve been seeing at the gas station are helping your corn and soybean basis prices. JC Hoyt, director of risk management services for Cash Grain Bids, says lower fuel costs across the U.S. are supporting strong basis gains this year.
Top Producer has gathered several agricultural economists and marketing specialists to provide pre-report and post-report analysis on the March 31 Grain Stocks and Prospective Planting USDA reports. Check back often as more audio analysis will be added Friday, Monday and Tuesday.
All the careful maintenance and adjusting we do to planters in the shop before planting is wasted if we don’'t take time to match planter settings to soil conditions. Here are six critical planter adjustments to help you optimize yields.
Talk about a horse of a different color. The power for this prototype tractor is supplied by hydrogen.
Latest study is part of debate to boost maximum ethanol blend percentage beyond 10 percent
Earmarks and estate tax language are just two issues Democratic leaders face when lawmakers return
‘Effort a step toward better and more targeted verificqtion activies that will reduce erroneous payments’
Brought to you by DuPont, Sponsor of the 2009 Commodity Classic AgDay reports from the 2009 Commodity Classic in Grapevine, Texas. This special edition includes insight on the four commodity groups that make this event possible - the National Corn Growers Association, the American Soybean Association, the National Association of Wheat Growers, and the National Sorghum Growers. Watch Now! Segment One Segment Two Segment Three Segment Four
Larry Moffett woke early this morning with a feeling that he needed to get up and moving. The cattleman raises prize winning Polled Herefords near Decatur, Ill.
Jerry Gulke, owner of Strategic Marketing Services and Top Producer columnist, says farmers need to watch how the markets close today, following USDA’s Supply and Demand Report.
CRS report gives detailed background on ethanol blend hike issues
Comments seen as effort to restore consumer confidence
Can you not figure out how to keep that elusive deer out of your crop field? Or, would you really like to make that naughty opossum leave your barn? The answers to your questions and more are waiting at the Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management.
Another Univ. of Minnesota study brings different analysis from ethanol industry watchers
Dec. 1 EPA deadline on Growth Energy petition filed March 6