USDA Expands Online LDP Payment System 

USDA

Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman announces that USDA is expanding its pilot e-LDP program to 50 counties, with every state having one participating...

Soil Sampling Now Can Pay Big Dividends 

South Dakota State University

Producers can gear up for next year's growing season by soil sampling now, a South Dakota State University (SDSU) scientist says. Ron Gelderman, manager...

Researchers Locate Sources Of Resistance to Soybean Aphids 

University of Illinois

In recent weeks, soybean aphids have suddenly emerged as a major concern for growers throughout the Midwest. Densities of several thousand aphids per...

Organizations Invest In Future Customers 

Dave Kohl

Recently I had an opportunity to address approximately 80 individuals from various high schools and the community college in the Iowa Falls, IA, area....

Brock Online Notes 

Panel Advises Tighter Farm Subsidy Rules
The federal panel created by Congress to examine farm subsidy payment limits recently recommended tightening eligibility rules for payments and tying payments to individual farmers rather than corporate entities....

Thinking of Retirement 

Dave Kohl

This has been a great week off the road, getting prepared for the fall and winter programs and doing some good honest farm work. As the students and parents come bustling on campus, it’s amazing how a city of 26,000 students move in within three to five days!...

The Road Tour! 

Dave Kohl

I just finished a six-week road tour during which I visited nearly 20 states. My groups included producers, agribusiness people, and a number of lenders and bankers’ schools and conferences. What’s the pulse of rural America?...

American Soybean Association Elects Heck As President, Fee As Secretary 

Iowa Soybean Association

The American Soybean Association (ASA) has elected Ron Heck of Perry, Iowa, as 64th president of the organization, a nearly 26,000-member organization....

Monsanto Will Again Sponsor Conservation Legacy Awards 

Monsanto

Monsanto announced today that it will sponsor the 2004 Conservation Legacy Awards program in conjunction with the American Soybean Association (ASA) and...

New U of M study underscores importance of cleaning grain 

University of Minnesota Extension Service

A new study gives extra credence to the importance of cleaning grain before you store it. “We’ve always recommended cleaning grain before storage to help...

Specialists Pinpoint Top 12 Research Areas to Deal with Ag Dangers 

University of Illinois

Agriculture faces a fatality rate estimated to be almost six times higher than other industries. With this in mind, ag safety specialists from across...

Brock Online Notes 

Iowa, Ilinois Corn Lush, Soybeans Average

Cornfields in Iowa and Illinois look strong and lush, but later-developing soybean fields are showing stress from weather and insects, crop scouts told Reuters News Service....

Worst Experience as a Lender 

Dave Kohl

In a recent column I discussed what agrilenders who attended the Advanced Ag Lending School in Omaha, NE, thought were their best experiences in dealing with customers. This time let’s turn the tables and discuss the worst....

Brock Online Notes 

Canada's cattle industry is making plans to increase domestic slaughter in an attempt to offset any long-term closure of the U.S. border to Canadian live cattle....

Soybean Rust: Coming to a Field Near You? 

Cecil H. Yancy Jr.

It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when soybean rust will hit the United States. The devastating, airborne fungus has already cut a wide swath in soybean crops in Asia, Australia and Africa, and it’s on the move in the Western Hemisphere....