Soy Solutions 

Looking for a safer cleaning product? How about an earth-friendly alternative for heating your home? Consumers are finding the solution to several of...

Think Outside The Row 

By David Howe

It's a hop, skip and jump away from higher yieldsor at least a skip. University of Nebraska agronomists have been comparing yields from corn planted in...

Extended Diapause 

Compiled By Susan Winsor

Northern corn rootworm appears to be adapting too well to the conventional corn/soybean rotation. Iowa State University Extension entomologist Marlin...

Do You Really Need To Own Land? 

If you ever get a chance to attend the annual TEPAP (The Executive Program for Agricultural Producers) program, please do. This attracts top farmers from...

Soybean Checkoff Tracks '07 Rust 

Compiled By Susan Winsor

Last year, soybean rust made its way farther north than it ever has before, to northern Indiana. Soybean checkoff dollars will again fund soybean sentinel...

Value for Vehicles 

Soybeans could have a prominent role in vehicles of the future and it's not just through biodiesel. Ford Motor Company is researching expanded use of...

Can We Stop Wasting Energy? 

By Greg Lamp

I'm a little confused about what's ahead for renewable fuels. I'm hoping it's all rosy, but I'm not so sure it will be...

From the Farm for the Farm 

Soybeans leave the farm as a little beige bean, but many are finding their way back to the farm in the form of soy-based products developed through checkoff-funded...

The Soybean: Corn Price Ratio 

By Alan Kluis

The magnitude of the recent rally in corn prices has been greater than the rally in soybean prices. This has taken the soybean:corn price ratio to just...

Volatility Rules 

By Larry Stalcup

Because of mass increases in fund-controlled open interest in corn and soybean futures contracts, markets are swinging wider and wider...

$47 Crude Oil? 

By Richard Brock

Forecasters who last summer were predicting $100/barrel crude oil have long since gone into early hibernation. Because bad news tends to sell better than...

Prime Enzymes 

By Karl Ohm

Unlocking and converting starch into simpler sugars so yeast can ferment them into ethanol is all in a day's work for microscopic enzymes, such as amylase...

Technology Reduces Gossypol In Cotton Seed 

Compiled by Kate Royer

Genetic technology developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators suggests that cottonseed could one day become a significant...

Weed Control Deja Vu 

By Fae Holin

The market for herbicides with new chemistry is nearly stagnant, a result of several factors, says Tom Bauman, Purdue University Extension weed specialist....

High Cotton Award Winners Honored 

Compiled by Kate Royer

The 2007 High Cotton award winners were honored at the 2007 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in New Orleans, Jan. 11...

2006 Cotton Genetics Research Award 

Compiled by Kate Royer

Richard G. Percy, a USDA ARS research geneticist in Arizona, is the recipient of the 2006 Cotton Genetics Research Award. Percy, who received $1,000 in...

In Pursuit Of Precision 

By Karl Ohm

Just a few years ago Gerald Thompson, a cash grain producer near Colfax, IL, began using a global positioning system (GPS) and auto-steer...

A Till Tale 

By Liz Morrison

Strip-tillage helped one young Minnesota farmer get started in agriculture from the ground up. Keith Landwehr grew up on a farm, but didn't have the option...

Shop-Built And Slick 

Last winter Andy Hart didn't have any luck finding a strip-till machine big enough to do what he wanted on his rolling hills...

Ethanol Fuels Land Prices 

By Susan Winsor

Would you pay $5,073 for an acre of prime Iowa farmland? That was the average November Scott County figure reported by Iowa State's annual survey of land...

More Tillage, More Profit? 

By John Pocock

The moldboard plow is making a comebackin corn-on-corn rotations with $3 corn. Yields increase significantly by using a moldboard plow in the fall...

Plant And Scout At The Same Time 

By Tyler Bruch

Editor's Note: Next in a series from Iowa farmer Tyler Bruch whose family farms 10,500 acres in Bahia, Brazil. The planting season carried on from last...

Don't Underplant 

By Edward Clark

For growers who haven't increased their corn population rates over the past five years, now might be a good time to reassess. And for two important reasons,...

Virtual Farming Comes Of Age 

By Karl Ohm

You could say John Norman has gone underground. His fascination with cause and effect has led the University of Wisconsin soil physicist to model water's...

Pioneering No-Till Chicken Litter 

Alan Newport

Jay Franklin pioneered no-till farming in his corner of northeast Oklahoma 20 years ago and now he's forging ahead with another unorthodox practice...