The Lowdown On HSAs 

By Neil Harl

Health Savings Accounts (HSA) contributions must be made for a specific year on or before the due date (without extensions) for filing tax returns in...

When Marketing, Think Ahead 

By Richard Brock

Even though your neighbors are probably more upset if they miss a bull market than a bear market, it's far more expensive to miss a bear market than a...

U.S. Of Europe? 

By Meghan Sapp

In a bid to make its agricultural system more efficient and less subsidy dependent, the European Union (EU) is writing its own freedom to farm. First,...

Lime Fields In Fall 

Compiled By Sherry Collins

Applying lime in fall to take advantage of winter rains and the fact that it can be incorporated into soil while tilling makes sense. But soil test your...

Biotech Soap Opera 

By James Thompson

This year in Brazil, October was the cruelest month. Soybean planting usually starts then, timed to the first downpours that mark the start of the rainy...

IRRIGATED COTTON DOESN'T NEED SUBSOIL TILLAGE 

Compiled By Sherry Collins

Sometimes good research just backs up what farmers already suspect. Nine years of research at Mississippi State University's Delta Research and Extension...

DDGS Market Surge 

By John Pocock

Pigs and chickens will soon see a new entre on their fast-food menu called distillers' dried grain with solubles (DDGS). Modern dry-mill ethanol plants...

U.S. Commodities Feed The Poor 

Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman has announced plans for $50 million in foreign assistance under USDA's fiscal year 2004 McGovern-Dole International...

Pumping Up Biodiesel 

By James Thompson

As South American farmers begin planting, both Brazil and Argentina plan to have laws in place to provide incentives for the production of biodiesel....

Exports Take A Hike 

USDA's final U.S. agricultural export forecast for fiscal 2004 pegs sales at a record high of $62 billion, up $500 million from the agency's May estimate...

Changing Demographics Mean More Risk 

By Moe Russell

This summer Iowa State University economist Mike Duffy and several of his colleagues released an Iowa farmland ownership and tenure study spanning a 20-year...

Fight Phytophthora 

By Sherry Collins

All it takes is a day or two of wet soils, a few spores of Phytophthora sojae and a breakdown in your soybean genetics to cause yield losses. There have...

Sell Grain Year-Round 

By Larry Stalcup

Nearly every year, pulling the trigger on corn and soybean sales long before harvest will yield better prices than when combines are rolling. You can...

Sign Up For MarketMaxxSM 

By Greg Lamp glamp@primediabusiness.com EDITOR

The crop is in, but that doesn't mean your job is done. For nearly two thirds of you, the marketing process is just beginning. Surveys of our readers...

LOWER PRICES FOR ROUNDUP 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

Monsanto announced it's cutting the list price of its Roundup Original MAX herbicide significantly for the 2005 season. As part of the announcement, the...

Expect Harvest Lows Ahead 

By Alan Kluis

At a March seminar, when CBOT soybean futures soared above $10 and corn futures rallied to more than $3/bu., someone asked, With China's appetite for...

Grow To Succeed 

By Danny Klinefelter

Growth will be a necessity not a luxury if commercial farmers and ranchers want to remain competitive. That's the message Ed McMillan, an agribusiness...

SOYBEANS: Will History Repeat? 

By Richard Brock

I have been using the quote, I have a great memory it's just short, for years and frankly don't know who to attribute it to. It has a lot of meaning for...

RENEWABLE ENERGY USE UP 3% 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

Consumption of renewable energy increased 3% in 2003, with ethanol use constituting a significant portion of that increase, according to the U.S. Department...

New Online LDP Payment Service 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

USDA has launched a nationwide Electronic Loan Deficiency Payment (eLDP) service that will now enable producers across the country to request and receive...

Morningglories Creep Around Glyphosate 

Compiled By Sherry Collins

For 30 years glyphosate has kept morningglories, a noxious weed that can lower yields and choke harvesters, out of farm fields. But something is changing....

SEARCH FOR HYPOALLERGENIC SOYBEAN 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

Finding a soybean that doesn't contain the P34 protein that's responsible for allergic reactions in 6-8% of children is like looking for a needle in a...

New Varieties Reduce Trans Fats 

Monsanto announces a new, low-linolenic soybean variety produced through conventional breeding that will reduce or even eliminate trans fatty acids in...

Double-Crop Bounty 

By Larry Stalcup

Double cropping soybeans after a small grain crop usually spells a smaller yield. But Matt Gard has no beef with his bean production. He produces 60-70...

MILD EL NIO AHEAD 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists say they're increasingly confident weak El Nio conditions are developing in the tropical...