Delayed Planting May Be Blessing In Disguise For Soybeans 

Purdue University

Even though planting soybeans earlier has been an increasing trend for growers, a Purdue University expert said this year¹s delayed planting may be more beneficial than detrimental...

NCGA Debuts New Food And Fuel Resource Center  

National Corn Growers Association

As a disinformation campaign against corn ethanol continues with enormous funding from special interests, the National Corn Growers Association has created an Internet resource center that focuses squarely on the “food versus fuel” issue...

Improve Your Marketing Skills With Marketmaxx 

by Larry G. Stalcup

Deadline For Signup Is Midnight … May 31, 2008. If you’re not yet playing MarketMaxx – the corn and soybean marketing game that can win you one year’s use of a new Gleaner combine or an AGCO tractor – then go to http://www.MarketMaxx.net now and get signed up today...

House passes 2008 farm bill conference report, 318-106 

By Forrest Laws, Delta Farm Press

The House passed the farm bill conference report by a vote of 318-106 yesterday (May 14), giving farm organizations a major victory over the national news media and environmental and social activist groups who waged a war against it...

Defending Ethanol’s Benefits 

by Mike Geske, President, Missouri Corn Growers Association

I’m about to get over my anger at the major news media for their incessant attacks on ethanol. I've reached a new level of resignation combined with ridicule and contempt...

Tough Talk From USDA 

By Susan Winsor

Bruce Knight, USDA under secretary for marketing and regulatory programs, didn’t mince words Tuesday in criticizing the latest farm bill...

Spring Cleaning And Maintenance For Soy Biodiesel Storage Systems  

source: Ohio Soybean Council

According to the Ohio Soybean Council (OSC), spring is a vital time for routine maintenance of soy biodiesel fuel storage systems...

USDA Issues First Forecast of 2008-09 Corn Crop 

source: NCGA

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today released its monthly World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimate (WASDE), which included the first estimate of the 2008-09 corn crop, the National Corn Growers Association notes...

Late-Planted Corn 

University of Illinois

Corn is responsible for most of the uncertainty in the market, and much of that is associated with the U.S. situation, said a University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist...

See Columnist Tyler Bruch Live 

Corn & Soybean Digest’s Brazil columnist, Tyler Bruch, 28, was featured in a special CNBC business news program Sunday, May 4...

Congress Sees Farm Bill Breakthrough 

Congressional farm bill conferees apparently have reached an agreement on a farm bill compromise – none too soon for corn and soybean growers and other farmers who need a plan to follow for this year’s production...

Soybean Seed Inoculation Pays 

Source: Michigan State University

Research conducted at Michigan State University (MSU) and Ohio State University (OSU) and in Ontario has demonstrated that treating soybean seed with bacterial inoculants is a profitable practice...

Rain-Delayed Corn Planting No Reason To Switch Crop, Says MU Agronomist 

Source: University of Missouri

Rain-delayed planting is no reason to switch from corn to soybeans or to switch to an early maturing corn variety, says Bill Wiebold, a University of Missouri Extension agronomist...

Corn Planting Falls Further Behind 

By Richard Brock

Corn-planting progress fell further behind normal last week as wet conditions again allowed only limited progress by producers across the Midwest...

Planting Progress Varies 

By Kent Thiesse

There has been some limited tillage and corn planting completed in some areas of southern Minnesota from April 23 to April 25, prior to the heavy rains, wet snow and cold temperatures late last week...