FILLING UP ON BIODIESEL 

A mid record-high fuel prices, the once hard-to-find biodiesel is finally earning a full-time spot at the pump. No place is that truer than in Minnesota,...

What's Best For U.S. Growers? 

By Barb Baylor Anderson

Both U.S. corn and soybean growers have found benefits in biotech trait seed greater yield potential, simpler weed and pest control and improved handling...

SOY MAKES A SPLASH 

It's been called one of the biggest potential new uses for soy in the future. What is it? Experts predict it will be the use of soybean meal in aquaculture...

Add To Your Acreage 

By John Pocock

Farmers traditionally expand their cropland acreage by finding more land to cash rent, but that strategy isn't nearly as easy to implement as it once...

Lessons Learned 

By Doreen Muzzi

Southern farmers got their first real taste of Asian soybean rust in 2005, and the consensus is that it could have been much worse, especially if they...

CELEBRATING SOY 

The soybean industry truly has reason to celebrate actually 19 reasons. That's how many new products were introduced to the market this year with support...

Don't Let Cotton Profits Wilt Away 

By Larry Stalcup

While cotton growers are trying to determine the best combinations of transgenic seed varieties to ease pressure from weeds and most insects, soil-borne...

USDA HURRICANE AID HITS $4.5 BILLION 

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announces that $2.8 billion in aid to assist victims of the 2005 hurricane season. Agricultural producers will receive...

Improved Soybean Weed Control 

By Fae Holin

If you can't beat them, join them. That seems to be the motto of many chemical companies since the advent of glyphosate-tolerant crops. A number of herbicides...

Starting Without Starter 

By Rick Mooney

Alma Center, WI crop/dairy producer Blake Heller was on a mission. For years, Heller had used a starter fertilizer to get the corn crop he grows on 1,500...

No Yardsticks Or Popcorn 

By Dave Howe

If you want a yardstick and a bag of popcorn, don't come to our field days. Nebraska Extension educator Keith Glewen is only half joking as he offers...

Why Aren't They Checking? 

By Greg Lamp

I recently returned from our magazine's annual tour to Brazil, where we visited several large and small soybean farms as well as beef cattle operations...

A BETTER SOCIETY WITH SOY 

While a primary intent of soy new uses is to boost the ag economy, there's an important secondary benefit as well a better environment. Soy's earth-friendly...

MarketMaxx Success 

By Larry Stalcup

As corn and soybean prices took a turn lower following last month's USDA crops report, Tom Edic knew markets would likely rebound in early year fashion....

ILLINOIS OFFERS NEW CARBON TRADING PROGRAM 

Illinois farmers will soon have a new market available to them selling carbon credits they can earn by adopting a variety of conservation practices. The...

Strength In Numbers 

By Larry Stalcup

Grower marketing clubs were developed in the 1970s and '80s to help producers get their feet wet in making real or simulated commodity trades. Some clubs...

Managing Human Capital 

By Moe Russell

This past month I had the honor of being on the faculty of The Executive Program for Agricultural Producers (TEPAP) held in Austin, TX. This program completed...

How Low Can Prices Go? 

By Alan Kluis

Corn and soybean futures put in impressive rallies from the low posted in late November 2005 to the early January high in 2006. The CBOT corn continuation...

Bull Market In Corn? When? 

By Richard Brock

Is there a grain farmer anywhere who doesn't like a good bull market in corn and soybeans? Possibly, but you would have to search hard to find one. The...

The Bin Is Half Empty 

By James Thompson

Or is it half full? That will depend on the way you look at it, of course. Brazil is a nation as large as our 48 contiguous states, a continent-sized...

No-Till Helps Cotton Weather Drought 

Cotton growers in the southeastern U.S. can deal with periodic droughts by using conservation tillage and fertilizing with poultry litter, Agricultural...

The Brazilian Farmland Report 

News In A Pod BRAZILIAN HARVEST LOSSES The Ministry of Agriculture is closing the books on the 2004-05 soybean harvest. Total output was 51 million metric...

RECORD BREAKING 2005 COTTON CROP 

U.S. farmers produced their largest-ever cotton crop and second-largest corn and soybean crops in 2005, according to the Crop Production 2005 Summary...

A Yield Response To Foliar Fungicides? 

By Ryan Miller

Many growers used foliar fungicides on soybeans in 2005, and there were many anecdotal reports of yield gains. The reports of yield gains have piqued...

NEW FARM LEGISLATION CONCERNS 

Although the National Cotton Council was able to attain its goals of protection payment eligibility requirements and current payment limits during the...