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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.
Nope, you’re not looking at water-front property. This is what some farmers are facing at planting time.
TOPICS: New fuels plan; Dairy export bonus (DEIP); Immigration reform; Antitrust and railroads
As many barns across the country are facing deterioration and teardown, one barn outside of Westminister, Md. has a different plan.
U.S. farmers hope it will be sooner rather than later for easier trading with country 90 miles from U.S. border
Release of draft text signals Democratic leadership wants bill by end of year
Obama administration seen having more flexible stance than Bush trade officials
History shows not much impact from using DEIP, but program has helped protect trade with Mexico
USDA released their May Cattle on Feed report this afternoon. Listen to some audio analysis from these experts.
Leigh Rubin officially becomes our Farm Journal Humorologist.
Assistant Attorney General Varney has indicated her division will put more focus on competition in agriculture
The recession is a mixed bag for consumer demand for ag commodities, according to economists at Rabobank.
In the March 2009 issue of Top Producer, tax consultant Lance Fulton with Kennedy & Coe offered a unique plan for building a retirement fund with grain while also reducing the burden of paying self-employment tax on that grain in the article Pay Less at Tax Time.
Soft red winter wheat producers face a favorable pricing scenario heading into harvest because of rising prices and an opportunity to earn a large return from a storage hedge, according to U of I Extension Economist Darrel Good.
Larry Steckel, University of Tennessee weed specialist, discusses how resistant weeds are spreading in his state and what farmers are doing to control the invasion.
A volatile economy is not stopping a company that produces a volatile product from expanding.
Illinois farmers now have the opportunity to recycle their agrichemical containers for free. The Illinois Department of Agriculture has arranged for several collection sites to accept the containers.
Greasy, grimy grubs. Did your fields turn up polka dotted with white grubs this spring? They could be feeding on corn and soybean roots.
Global farmland investors share their “must dos” when investing here or abroad
At 10 p.m. last night, Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Acting Ranking Minority Member, released a 247-page report entitled, Excessive Speculation in the Wheat Market.
Wheat harvest was well underway throughout this region. Charlie Hinkebein was using floater tires to get his out near Chaffee, Missouri.
A major step for the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 was made yesterday as House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn. and Energy Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. reached an agreement.
Jim Bower, president of Bower Trading, provides pre-report analysis for the June 30 Acreage and Grain Stocks USDA reports.
Soybean research funding in South Dakota is helping to find natural solutions for soybean aphids.
New report shows impacts achieved by farmers since mid-1990s.
This new corn can give you some sugar, produce grain and be used for biomass—all while using less nitrogen.
Farmers are no strangers to cycles—production and prices of everything you produce swing from too much to too little and back, almost yearly.