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Is the party over?

| By Susan Winsor

Most of us knew there would be a hangover from $6 corn, but who would have thought that subprime lending might cause it? Or did it? Our interconnected world has some growers wondering where Wall Street ends and Main... More

Purdue expert shares tips for figuring cash rents

| Source: Purdue University

With prices and input costs fluctuating, people need to review their lease arrangements and adjust for the year ahead, says Craig Dobbins, a Purdue University ... More

Don't Remove Too Much Corn Residue This Fall

| By Jeff Coulter, corn agronomist, University of Minnesota Extension

In most fields, corn residue remaining after grain harvest is incorporated into the soil with tillage or is left on the soil surface. But corn residue is also becoming a ... More

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By Richard Brock

Brazil Sees Modest Soy Crop Increase
In its first estimates of Brazil’s 2008-2009 crop production, the supply arm of Brazil’s agriculture ministry projected soybean production...

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Thiesse's Thoughts

By Kent Thiesse

Harvesting Increasing, Grain Markets Declining
ASoybean harvest is now in full-swing in most areas of southern and western Minnesota, as many soybeans have now reached maturity...

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Road Warrior of Agriculture

By David Kohl

Lessons Learned From the Financial Crisis for Ag Producers
Many in the agricultural industry, particularly the grain sector, are still on the island of prosperity while the rest of the agricultural economy and general...

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9 Ways to Harvest Smarter

September 1, 2008 | By Shelby Haag

A job worth doing is worth doing right — and when it comes to harvesting crops it couldn't be truer... More

Traits Worth The Wait

September 1, 2008 | By Susan Winsor

Since designer genes first debuted in 1996, exciting new corn seed traits have steadily advanced. Over the next five to seven years... More

Leasing Logistics
If farmland leases set on automatic pilot ever made sense in calmer economic times, they no longer do…not with spikes in commodity prices, higher input costs and farmland values now in play...

Extend Your N: 15 Tips For Improving Your Nitrogen ROI
N mistakes have never been costlier. High nitrogen (N) fertilizer prices and high corn values mean “there's more money to be made and lost on N,” says Peter Scharf, University of Missouri Extension soil scientist...

Don't Drown in Your Stored Grain
Plant it. Harvest it. Store it. While it takes an entire growing season to produce the millions of bushels of grain harvested each year, it takes fewer than five seconds to become helplessly trapped in flowing grain...

Climate Change Consequences
Scientists have much to learn about predicting future climate conditions, particularly when calculating change for certain regions on the earth's globe, says Elwynn Taylor, Iowa State University Extension climatologist. Yet, he also warns that both ...

O-N-D Marketing
October-November-December (O-N-D). That's long been staple for many growers eager to get their corn and soybeans sold and delivered at harvest. O-N-D delivery periods are only...

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