New Tundra Hits The Road 

By Greg Lamp

When you think heavy-duty, tough and able to pull about anything you hitch to it, you probably don't think about a Toyota. Think again...

Acreage Is Everything 

By Richard Brock

Never in history have planted acreage and yield been so important to price as now. Acreage plus yield is going to be everything in the corn market this...

World Trade Talks Fail 

By Doug McInnis

After five years of negotiations, the worldwide round of trade talks collapsed. For U.S. farmers, the failure of the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks...

Midsouth Farm & Gin Show 

Compiled by Kate Royer

The Midsouth Farm & Gin Show, to be held March 2-3 in Memphis, TN, will give growers and ginners a firsthand look at a broad array of new ag products...

Fields Of Gold 

By Susan Winsor

Today's crop residues are tomorrow's fuel. The challenge is liberating cellulose's abundant sugars from its carbon-bond grip to ferment into ethanol...

More Yield, Less Profit in Mississippi 

Compiled by Kate Royer

Cotton posted an estimated $583 million production value in Mississippi in 2006, but growers paid a high price to bring it to harvest...

Bean Leaf Beetles Drop Bean Yields 

Palle Pedersen Iowa State University Extension soybean agronomist

How can one farmer clear 60-bu. beans when another, planting on the same day, only gets yields of 50 bu.? Often, the difference comes from small things...

USDA Reviews CRP Acres 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

USDA is conducting a large-scale review of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to decide if some CRP acres should be released now that additional acreage...

Corn, Corn And More Corn 

By John Pocock

Grain farmers all across the country are planning to profit from planting more corn acreage in 2007 than they did in 2006, and Trav Bratland expects to be one of them...

NCGA Warns Growers 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

The National Corn Growers Association reminds farmers that corn bearing the Market Choices logo is banned from the European Union...

Healthy Trans Fat? 

Compiled by Kate Royer

Typically, trans fatty acids are bad for health, but scientists at the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture have coaxed out significant health benefits by juggling the molecular structure of soy oil.

Andrew Proctor, professor of food science, and graduate student Vishal Jain produced soy oil rich in conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). Studies show CLA enhances the immune system and lowers cancer and diabetes risks. ...

Triple Stacks are Sellers 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

Monsanto reports that based on early sales patterns, it appears for the first time their Dekalb and Asgrow brands will sell more bags of seed with three...

New USB Leaders Named 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

As part of its annual meeting, the United Soybean Board (USB) elected Eric Niemann, a soybean farmer from Nortonville, KS, to represent ...

Rust Results Ready 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

Proceedings from the 2006 National Soybean Rust Symposium are now posted on the Soybean Rust Information Center...

Brazil's Ear Pressure 

By James Thompson

Jos Joaquim Rodrigues, 52, says it's a good year to plant corn in Brazil. Last year he produced 75 hectares, but this year, he's planted more than 250...

Sizing Up Glyphosate Complaints 

By David Howe

What's behind grower complaints that glyphosate has lost some of its over the past five or six years? Many growers who have used it alone for weed control...

Heavy Hittin' Hybrids 

Compiled by Kate Royer

Single traits. Triple stacks. How do you decide? Each year the decision about what seed to plant becomes more and more complicated. That's why The Corn And Soybean Digest asked major seed companies for their best new corn hybrids for next year....

Biodiesel B5 Ships Through Pipeline 

Compiled By Susan Winsor

Biodiesel advocates have worked towards allowing biodiesel shipments in pipelines, which they hoped would boost the fuel's acceptance in the marketplace...

More Biofuels in Florida 

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson has announced that the Division of Forestry will use biodiesel fuel in some...

Three New Accredited Biodiesel Producers 

Compiled By Susan Winsor

All of the major Minnesota biodiesel producers are now accredited under BQ-9000, the voluntary biodiesel industry fuel quality control program...

Export Expectations 

By Susan Winsor

Can the U.S. both feed and fuel the world? America exports about 20% of our 78-million acre corn crop each year the equivalent of 2007 projected ethanol...

Don't Miss Eye On Energy 

By Greg Lamp

When I was in high school my buddies and I would bomb around Brookings, SD, in my old Chevy and squawk because gas at about 30/gal. was killing us...

Warm Ups For The Real Deal 

By Larry Stalcup

Even with unusually strong corn prices this fall, throwing away 50/bu. should be against the laws of grain marketing. But it happens to many growers every...

Corn Rally Creates Bull Market In Beans 

By Alan Kluis

Have you ever seen a time like this, when U.S. farmers need to grow more of everything? What has caused this and will it last? These were excellent questions...

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