100-Dollar-Ideas
Veteran crop tour scouts Kurt Line and Jarod Creed saw plenty of potential for soybeans along their routes in Nebraska, if Mother Nature will cooperate.
AgDay’s Betsy Jibben talks with a father and son team of scouts on the 2017 Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.
Recently, the regulations which mandate mixing corn-based ethanol into gasoline are drawing some criticism.
Chris Hawthorn, USDA-NASS corn expert, addressed the August crop report during the Grand Island, Neb., round up of day one of the Farm Journal Pro Midwest Crop Tour.
Is agriculture exempt from the permitting requirements of the Clean Water Act? Growers will have to wait a while longer for an answer to that question following a $1.1 million settlement in a landmark case this week.
Are farmers protected by the agricultural practices exemption of the Clean Water Act? That is the centerpiece of a court hearing getting underway in California.
The late-season irrigation know-how Olan Moore started using in Texas corn growers’ fields 40 years ago is common in the Lone Star state but still relatively unknown in the Midwest. Moore, owner of High Plains Consulting near Springlake, Texas, says the practice boils down to this: “When corn matures, and that milk line is one-half of the way down and you have 90-degree-temperatures-plus, if you don’t have 4.45” to 5” of soil moisture in the top 3’ of the soil profile you could lose up to 30- to 40-bu. per acre of corn,” he explains. “Just 2” to 3” applied through the pivot can make a huge difference on the tail end of the season.”
After the USDA’s June 30 acreage report last Friday, some people were questioning its accuracy. The March 30 prospective planting report had corn and soybeans within 500 thousand acres of each other, and many anticipated some of those corn acres moving to beans after April and May made for one of the wettest springs on record. But the June report widened that gap to 1.4 million acres, with corn currently estimated at 90.9 million acres and soybeans at 89.5 million acres.
Weather challenges in the Southern Hemisphere could send U.S. soybean prices higher, says DuWayne Bosse, a producer and market analyst with Bolt Marketing.
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.