…only option purchasers would have to protect crops grown from those seeds from weed pressure would be to spray dicamba illegally. In a prepared statement to DTN, a Monsanto spokesperson…
Agri View: Weather Disasters
…wholesale damage in the Carolina’s. They are still adding the costs of the crops in North Carolina. Major damage in Georgia was to cotton and pecans. Both crops were hard…
Immigration Crackdown Could Increase Food Prices
…harvesting fruit and 61 percent of all employees on vegetable farms, and as many as half of all workers picking crops. Agricultural economists say any interruption in the workforce would…
Agri View: Corn Affecting Meat Prices
…corn crops which have resulted in lower feed prices is the main reason. These huge corn crops have also reduced the amount of corn used in making ethanol. Corn is…
Meeting Growing Demand for Organic Products
…understanding the effects of organic practices such as crop rotation, livestock-crop integration, organic manure, mulch and/or compost additions, cover crops, and reduced or conservation tillage on ecosystem services, greenhouse gas…
Record Yields Leading to Storage Crunch
…this season. At the same time, futures markets are also encouraging farmers to store crops well into next year. Cobank says that means the value of grain storage space is…
Improving Water Quality in High-Priority Watersheds
…Service’s (NRCS) National Water Quality Initiative (NWQI). The NWQI helps farmers and ranchers implement voluntary conservation practices, such as nutrient management, cover crops, conservation cropping systems, filter strips, terraces and…
World Soil Day: Celebrating the Magic Beneath
…Soil supports our houses, roads, crops and our very lives. It silently churns microbial magic, turning carbon sources like old plants and animals into the nutrients needed to support new…
More Volatility Ahead for Cattle Markets
…before things went in the negative direction starting in 2012. From August 2012-2016, corn prices dropped 60 percent and soybeans were 47 percent lower. Fed cattle prices followed crops lower,…
Winter Vegetable Harvest Gets Early Start
…crops are coming in on time,” Hawk said. “It’s probably not going to be a great market right now. There’s plenty of product—too much product.” Ralph Strahm, a third-generation Imperial…
Stink Bug Could Infest by the Tens of Thousands
…damage to stone fruit, vegetable crops and to all kinds of pome fruits like pears,” Daane said. It’s unclear what the pest will do when it comes across nut crops,…
New Test Genetically IDs Fungal Wheat Threat
…and Paraguay, but wheat blast hasn’t been reported outside of South America—that is, until February 2016, when MoT was confirmed in wheat crops in Bangladesh. Concerned that MoT could enter…
New Process Quickly Analyzes Acrylamide in French Fries
…to Johanningsmeier. This research was supported by a USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture Specialty Crop Research Initiative Grant. Read more about this research in the November 2016 issue of…
November 2016 Farm Income Forecast
…billion) in cattle/calf receipts. A marginal expected gain in crop cash receipts is driven largely by a $5.3-billion increase in oil crop receipts, primarily soybeans, while feed crops (mainly corn)…