PRODUCTS 

36- AND 24-ROW PLANTERS A new 36-row, 30-in. model DB 90 planter offers high, 26-in. ground clearance with a front fold, five-section flex-frame design....

Trusted Partners 

By Karen Simon

Do you really need to farm more land to be more profitable? Unless you buck the trend, that's exactly what's happening these days. And building trusted...

FIGURE FORWARD Selling Tactics 

By Larry Stalcup

Marketing 2003 soybeans has been a tough call for Dave Peckenpaugh, Randy Hervert and other growers. Hervert managed to maintain his sanity by getting...

Be At The Table 

By Greg Lamp

After more than a dozen interviews in a single day, Ron Heck is certainly as comfortable and poised in front of a reporter as he is in front of members...

Texan Takes NCGA's Reins 

By Larry Stalcup

Whether he's plowing the halls of Congress or his corn acres, Texan Dee Vaughan is working to rope the benefits of corn production, both for himself and...

Buying Into Biofuels 

By Karen Simon

The future of renewable fuels looks bright. The passage of some sort of renewable fuels standard seems likely. Consumer awareness of the benefits of biofuels...

PUMPED UP ON ETHANOL 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

The U.S. ethanol industry set a production record in May with 175,000 barrels/day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Production...

Bt Doesn't Control Me 

By Sherry Collins

A cutworm you won't find on any Bt corn's label may be cutting into your corn. The western bean cutworm, historically only a pest in the western Corn...

PLAN FOR YOUR FARM'S FUTURE 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

Good estate planning can help landowners achieve financial stability without cashing in on their land. Your Land is Your Legacy: A Guide to Planning for...

Geared Up For Demand 

By Shannon Hartenstein

Farm politics will make it to the fuel pumps if the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) of the 2003 Energy Bill passes. The biofuels industry is gearing up....

Kick-Starting Trade 

By Karen Simon

U.S. soybean farmers continue to export more soybeans each year, but competition for global market share grows more intense. Fortunately, U.S. farmers...

The Changing World Grain Market 

By Richard Brock

Years ago, I was taught in grain marketing class that the function of price is to ration supply. If we have too much of something the function of price...

EU TO REFORM AG POLICY 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

The European Union (EU) member states reached an agreement to delink, or separate, farm subsidies from production and gradually reduce those subsidies...

MORE BIOTECH CROPS 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

According to USDA, 40% of this year's corn crop is planted to biotech hybrids, up from 34% last year. Roundup Ready soybean varieties account for 81%...

Textile Industry Demands Action 

Compiled By Sherry Collins

Representatives from the six largest textile industry organizations met in Washington, D.C., and unanimously approved a coordinated lobbying campaign...

CHECK Your New-Crop Bids 

By Alan Kluis

The last USDA Supply-Demand Report projects U.S. ending stocks to drop to just 120 million bushels This would be the tightest U.S. ending stocks number...

European Views On Biotech Shift 

By Greg Lamp

GMOs are not really an issue for most consumers in Europe. Not surprising, but that's what Dagmar Behme, a German agricultural journalist, told me recently...

BIGGER, Better Grain Storage 

By Andrea McCann

There's no single right way to handle grain, but some Midwestern grain-handling experts agree that increasing farm size and the need to handle specialty...

Each Decision Affects Another 

By Moe Russell

Earlier we reviewed the value of using sound business practices when making a decision to adopt new technologies or new products in your operation. Good...

Build Global Demand 

Much has been said about the U.S. farmer's ability to compete in the world soybean market in the face of steadily increasing competition from Brazil and...

Legislative Leveling 

By Sherry Collins

The long-awaited Energy Bill now working its way through Congress finally offers a big break for ethanol and biodiesel: a level playing field. An excise...

Flying High 

By Karl Ohm

Precision agriculture management practices may become even more precise and more widely used, thanks to University of Illinois (U of I) researchers. They've...

From Field to Fuel and Back 

By setting up one of the nation's first biodiesel networks, the energy division of CHS Cooperatives is leading the way to make biodiesel readily available...

CROP ADVISER CERTIFICATION 

Compiled By Greg Lamp

Ag Technologies International and Iowa State University have signed a reseller agreement to market the university's Crop Adviser Institute course library....

Disguised Ag Subsidies 

By James Thompson

Some Brazilians seem to love slipping a reference to U.S. farm subsidies into the middle of a conversation. They move on to another topic before you have...