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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.
It’s harvest time. That means it’s time for #cabcorn pictures.
A northern Iowa farmer has been given six months in prison for selling corn that was pledged as collateral on federal Farm Service Agency loans of more than $196,000.
Country says it has enough corn to last until next year.
Tariffs could make Argentine kernels cheaper than American.
Farmers in Sac, Calhoun and Buena Vista exhaled a collective sigh of relief this week when Iowa’s Supreme Court ruled Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) cannot sue the counties. The company was seeking damages for excess nitrates in the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers.
A 200-bu.-per-acre corn crop consumes 330 lb. to 350 lb. of nitrogen per acre. Know your soil’s nitrogen-supplying power to fine-tune application rates.
Country better prepared to handle outbreak than rest of region.
Farmers find another tool under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with pyrethroids’ draft environmental risk assessment and associated comment period ending March 31. The outcome of this review could leave farmers with one less tool in the insecticide toolbox.
China holds about half of world’s corn and cotton inventories.
There are several ways to categorize fertilizers. One logical way to look at them is as “granulars” and “liquids.” For the purposes of this comparison, anhydrous ammonia (technically a liquid) will not be considered.
So far, favorable South American weather forecasts support estimates of increased crop production in Brazil and Argentina. As a result, some analysts are betting on bigger U.S. ending stocks.
Brazil ‘s government grain agency CONAB raised its estimates Tuesday for record bumper crops of soybeans and grains.
Market psychology took a negative turn this week on the latest export figures, but the numbers don’t paint as bleak a picture as it seems, says Jerry Gulke of the Gulke Group. Also, keep watching weather in South America.
Pests have wiped out entire corn fields since last month.
As farmers reach for higher yields year after year, a handful of farmers across the U.S. pushed their yields to be crowned contest winners. Each year, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) hosts a contest to see what farmers can accomplish.
Amid new tensions with China, the Obama administration on Thursday launched its 15th challenge against Beijing at the Word Trade Organization, escalating a long-simmering debate over practices that U.S. officials say limit American farmers’ ability to export rice, wheat and corn to the Asian powerhouse.
Brazil’s farm economy will rebound in 2017 with a record harvest pushing up grain exports and expanding the country’s livestock industry, according to analysts’ forecasts.
Lack of rain in forecast may hurt supply.
2017 looks to be bearish soybeans, but bullish corn. This week’s U.S. Farm Report analysts break down the dynamics of the market and why producers need to have a plan.
A new service announced today gives farmers the chance to compare with other farmers the prices they pay for seed.
There wasn’t anything to get excited about in regard to USDA’s monthly WASDE and Crop Production reports. Though, that was to be expected, says Jerry Gulke, president of The Gulke Group.
Farmers looking to control disease and fungus in a variety of crops will soon have a new fungicide option in their arsenal.
Purdue University College of Agriculture developed a website with information they say will provide clarity into these organisms.
A Facebook photo shared by U.S. Farm Report shows a big difference between Trey Kimbrell and other kids his age. While they might be playing video games, Trey spends his days driving combine and grain cart, soaking it all in before school starts.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency boosted soybean futures Wednesday by raising 2017 biofuel mandates to record levels.
NCGA President Wesley Spurlock shares his family’s story and what it means to be lead the organization.
The farm community is buzzing with farmers’ new-found ability to see what their neighbors pay for the same bag of seed, thanks to new products released by Farmers Business Network and Granular. Many farmers are fueling their seed decisions based on this new information.
Building on human health risk claims found in the Notice of Data Availability (NODA) pre-publication, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving toward revoking all food tolerances for the insecticide chlorpyrifos.
South Dakota’s soybean crop expected to be record-size
Harvest is coming to an end, and farmers will be looking at their nutrient programs to get better crops and higher yields in 2017.