…will fall to $87.4 billion by year’s end, down more than a third from 2012’s $137.1 billion. Corn, once $7.63, is just over $3 a bushel now. Wheat, $9.50 a…
U.S. Agriculture in Vietnam
…locked in at zero percent and its 15-percent tariff on milled barley will be eliminated in four years. Corn: The United States exported $190 million of corn and corn products…
Agri View: Cotton Producers Troubles
…the survey period, the cotton December futures contract averaged just under 65 cents per pound, which is very similar to a year ago. However, corn and soybean prices are 8%…
Agri View: Foreign Vegetables
…the grain companies succeed in using NAFTA to open the Mexican corn market, the price paid to Mexican peasants for corn will fall dramatically, forcing one million or more families…
Treatments to Begin for the Japanese Beetle
…trees. Feeding studies show a host range in excess of 300 plants in 79 plant families. Among the preferred plants are grape, apple, cherry, peach, plum, rose, and corn. Corn…
Agri View: 2016 Farm Outlook
…corn and soybeans—historically the crops generating the highest crop cash receipts—are both expected to be fairly flat in 2016. Since hitting a record high in 2012, corn receipts are forecast…
Agri View: Farmland Value
…Southern Plains region to 0.3 percent decrease in the Corn Belt region. The highest farm real estate values were in the Corn Belt region at $6,350 per acre. The Mountain…
The California Kitchen: Poppy Seed Fuji Apple Chicken Salad
In today’s California Kitchen, learn to cook amazing poppy seed Fuji apple chicken salad with The Untamed Chef, Albert J. Hernandez. Here’s what you’ll need: 1 C Corn Syrup 1…
Backyard Chicks
…and chickens How To Care For A Chick – First 60 Days: You’ll need a chick brooder – See our list of homemade brooders Flooring – Pine shavings & corn…
Agri View: Feral Hog Efforts
…hunting industry. According to a 2012 survey conducted by University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, peanuts, corn and cotton are the most frequent crops damaged by…
Prospective Plantings for 2016
…below the acreage seeded in 2015. Corn – California farmers were expecting to plant 440 thousand acres of corn for all purposes in 2016, a 2 percent increase from last…
Estimated Corn Acres Planted Up This Year
The highest total of estimated corn acres planted since 2013 – that’s one of the highlights from USDA’s Prospective Plantings Report for 2016 Spring crops. Estimated Corn Acres Planted Up…
The Western View: Fake Science
…all of the corn, cotton and soybeans grown in the US is from GMO seed, and it has cut the amount of pesticides used by 90 per cent in corn,…
Agri View: Standards and Grades Facts
…has developed strict measures of quality for products such as grains, rice, corn, and beans. Quality Grading and Inspections Quality grading is based on the standards developed for each product….