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Cover crop support groups foster opportunities to learn from others
A former USDA scientist has plead guilty to stealing seeds.
Think of it as photosynthesis on steroids. Photosynthesis is how plants convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into food. But it’s a very inefficient process, using less than one percent of the energy available, scientists said.
Canada supplies half of oats used in U.S. snack bars, cereals.
Hurricane Matthew created a second year of tough harvest conditions for South Carolina farmers. Producers say the damage in the northeastern part of the state was mostly concentrated in cotton and peanuts.
The major beer brewers aren’t planning on buying as much barley from Montana.
The rice crop in parts of Arkansas appear promising after August rain.
Nearly half of all rice produced in the U.S. is exported, so Mississippi farmers need rice variety options to ensure strong foreign demand for their harvests.
A severe drought that is threatening Asia’s top rice producers and drying up the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia has exerted only limited impact on prices, thanks to last year’s huge rice surplus, according to officials.
After a dicey planting season last year in Missouri, producers plan to return to their normal rotations by planting as many acres of corn and soybeans this year as they did two years ago.
Consumers in New York and California sued PepsiCo Inc.’s Quaker Oats for false advertising over claims that the brand’s signature product contains a possible carcinogen that is not listed as an ingredient.
Demand and increasing that demand both domestically and internationally may be the biggest topic of all among farmers this year. We discussed how to make that happen with the chief executives of each of the grain associations.
If you haven’t planted cover crops yet, you naturally need to know what it’s going to cost before you do. As the cliché goes, there’s an app for that. (Well, a spreadsheet.)
China drove a lot of the recent demand for sorghum, driving premiums as high as 20% above corn at times.
If you’re wondering which cover crop might be best for your farm, you’ll want to check out the Cover Crop Chart from the USDA’s Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory.
Drought hurt crop production for Canadian wheat and canola this year, according to Statistics Canada’s latest Production of Principal Field Crops report released Friday, Oct. 2.
According to a recent Stats Canada crop survey, extremely dry fields in Alberta and Saskatchewan have cut into the yield potential of both crops.
But Dr. Lee Tarpley, AgriLife Research plant physiologist, is studying what specifically affects rice plants under extreme environmental conditions.
A Wisconsin farmer plants 400 acres of sunflowers near the highway as a touching and stunning tribute to his late wife.
Renewed farmer interest in grain sorghum advanced acreage nearly 24% this year.
The monsoon’s revival from mid-July has boosted India’s rice and soybean crops, curbing food price gains and easing concerns of shortages.
Rice farmer Boontham Chei-pa switches on a water pump in the evenings to irrigate his parched field from a canal in Thailand’s central province of Suphanburi.
There’s little doubt that deploying cover crops can protect against soil erosion and bolster soil health. But new research from the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) looked into potential yield benefits as well.
A rice glut that sent prices slumping more than a year ago is shrinking, just as El Nino arrives to parch paddies across Asia.
Researchers suspect steady rains and other factors may be responsible for a drop in a tiny bug’s infestation of a grain crop so far this year.
The drop in soybean oil prices shrank its premium over processed palm olein to $50/ton. That spread needs to bounce back to $70 for palm to regain market share.
The NDSU scientists are focusing on using oilseed from agricultural crops, cellulose, lignin and sucrose to generate building blocks of molecules that are made into polymers to create plastics.