Corn
This year, Agricomseeds is offering its first natural corn trait focused on increasing yield. Leadgrain, the new trait, uses multiple genes to more than double ovules at the cob matrix, which leads to ear expansion for more kernels per plant.
Acreage used for soy may exceed corn for first time since 1983.
Near-record ethanol production means more demand for grain.
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe, which represents the country’s major milling companies, said it wants the government to impose a 40 percent of tariffs on imports of corn and corn meal because its struggling to compete with cheaper South African corn grown from genetically modified seeds.
Grain markets yawned Thursday after the release of the latest supply and demand report from the USDA.
Kenya has approved the import of 5 million bags, or 450,000 metric tons, of yellow corn from Ukraine as a drought slashes its own output of the grain.
Red locust populations in Zambia are expanding, group says.
Farmers in Minnesota are starting to get more soybeans and corn harvested after some dry weather.
The latest crop production report has USDA factoring in record corn and soybean crops, even though states like Ohio had weather extremes this growing season.
When it comes to feeding your crop, you want nutrients readily available when they’re needed. After selecting nutrient rates, your next decision is the vehicle you’ll use to fertilize your crop.
On U.S. Farm Report, analysts Tommy Grisafi and Mike North discuss what caused this soybean rally and how long it’s been since corn has been more than $5.
Across the country, at least 90 corn fields have the same theme.
China suspends weekly state corn sales with harvest underway.
Weather challenges in the Southern Hemisphere could send U.S. soybean prices higher, says DuWayne Bosse, a producer and market analyst with Bolt Marketing.
Many farmers are focused on bringing in the harvest and mapping out marketing decisions for the fall and winter. Yet there are plenty of entrepreneurs willing to look past rows of corn and soybeans to the potential profit locked inside unusual plants. U.S. producers are investigating sales possibilities for crops such as hemp, pawpaw fruit and edamame, three different crops with similar challenges. Farmers who intend to grow them must learn all of their agronomic needs, crunch the numbers on costs and ensure the necessary infrastructure is in place to process and market them. For those who break into a niche, the revenue can be tremendous.
A New York snack business is using Nebraska corn to create munchies from ingredients that haven’t been genetically modified.
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.