Corn
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.
Look for sales opportunities entering September 2017, says Grant Shimek of Black Oak Financial in Festina, Iowa.
A 55-mph drive by your cornfields won’t cut it if you want to avoid surprises at the end of the season. Lace up your scouting boots and get into each of your fields to estimate yield.
The 2017 Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour kicked off in Dublin, Ohio, (a suburb of Columbus), with scouts sampling fields along 12 designated routes to Fishers, Indiana (a suburb o Indianapolis).
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.
Mexican Elevators, Feed Mills Possibly Importing from South America Mexico is a deficit ag producer and for things like corn, imports are essential. While proximity and infrastructure has made the U.S. a logical trading partner, buyers here are now looking to the sea. As the feed goes out, the trains roll in to Grupo Gramosa, a commercial elevator and feed mill in Queretaro, Mexico. “We receive trains full of grain, mostly yellow corn,” said Jorge Castillo, operations manager of Grupo Gramosa. “We receive about five or six trains a month.”
The event celebrating sustainable agriculture practices and collaboration across the food supply chain is open to all farmers will be jointly hosted by the National Corn Growers Association and Environmental Defense Fund.
Farmers throughout the south have seen big gains in statewide average yields. Most of the states in the region planted fewer corn acres, lowering total production.
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.”
USDA lowered corn yields and increase soybean yields, despite poor crop ratings in many areas. Jerry Gulke provides his take.
Summer crop harvest is a few weeks away, and bin space could be a concern to some farmers.
Syngenta will sell corn and soybeans with Dow AgroSciences Enlist event following their agreement with Dow AgroSciences and M.S. Technologies.
After experiencing a strong rally over the past month, the grain markets came crashing down this week. “You could call it a virtual collapse of the markets,” says Jerry Gulke of the Gulke Group.
Market speculators may be the most reviled contributors to the agricultural economy, but they play an important role in commodities trading and have increasing power to impact the markets.
Estimate increased by 2.2% from figure projected in June.
Massive piles of corn stored in the open air. That’s the consequence of a huge corn crop in Brazil’s largest producing state, Mato Grosso.
As corn is setting kernels there are many factors that influence its success, pollination among the most critical. Weather, insects, delayed silk emergence and other stresses could all negatively impact the number of kernels on each cob.
Although planting might seem as if it were ages ago, its effects can show up now. While scouting corn in addition to checking ear size and kernel count, take a look at stand, roots and stalks, and re-examine your ears to determine what when right—or wrong—earlier this year.
Keep open lines of communication and provide incentives for a job well done, advises Bill Romshek, marketing manager with the cooperative Heritage FS in Gilman, Ill.
It’s quite possible that shoppers buying corn chips can trace those chips back to Vigo County, Ind.
It’s not too late to head to Heyworth, Ill. to experience hands-on, cutting-edge events that will increase your success for years to come. These events are led by Farm Journal experts, including Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. This two-day event starts tomorrow, July 25.
Monday Syngenta announced it received Chinese approval for Duracade corn grain and processing co-products for food and feed use. The product received approval from USDA and EPA in 2013.
Bob Utterback, president and CEO of Utterback Marketing Services, doesn’t often get called a bull when it comes to grain marketing. But even for him, sometimes the occasion absolutely calls for it, he jokes.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), about half of the Indiana corn crop is rated good to excellent, and soybeans aren’t in much better shape.
Pay attention to time, discipline and communication, advises Texas A&M’s Mark Welch. He’ll speak at the 2017 Tomorrow’s Top Producer conference July 20-21 in Nashville.