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How to fund conservation plans
Learn more about the voluntary programs NRCS offers to eligible landowners and agricultural producers to provide financial and technical assistance.
Grain exports offered $55.5 billion in economic output
U.S. feed grain and grain products exports were worth $18.9 billion in 2015, and supported $55.5 billion in economic output.
Planting frustration grows
Patience is still best action by farmers, as planting is delayed across the U.S.
Warming climate could cause reduction in U.S. crops
WASHINGTON — The current global trend of rising average temperatures could bring worrisome reductions in crop yields within a decade. Computer models According to Michael J. Roberts, assistant professor of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University, computer models suggest that average global temperatures will rise enough to cause severe weather extremes that
Humane society: Ohio, here we come
SALEM, Ohio — Ohio farmers, you’ve had your warning. The Humane Society of the United States — the group who’s successfully outlawed hen cages, veal crates and gestation stalls in California, Arizona and Florida — has its eye on doing the same in the Buckeye State. The organization sent representatives to Columbus in February to
Insurance for crops following a cover crop
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Producers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio who want to insure corn, sweet corn, popcorn, hybrid seed corn, processing pumpkins, soybeans, processing beans or grain sorghum following a cover crop must: – Stop haying or grazing the cover crop by May 10; and – Terminate all cover crop growth at least seven
Cargill to build new plant in Brazil
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Cargill has announced plans to build a new corn processing plant in Brazil to produce starch and sweetener solutions. The company will invest $350 million in the new plant, which will add 30 percent to Cargill’s existing corn crushing capacity in South America. Facility location The new facilities will be based
SmartStax gains import approval in Japan
INDIANAPOLIS and ST. LOUIS — Monsanto Company and Dow AgroSciences have received full Japanese regulatory approval for importation of grain produced from SmartStax. Approved The food, feed and environmental safety of SmartStax corn were each reviewed and approved by the government agencies in Japan. These approvals follow U.S and Canadian regulatory approvals announced by the
The beautiful blessing of a new baby
Despite a lifetime of medical struggles, Judith Sutherland’s son Cort welcomes his second child, a 7-pound baby girl.
Welcome to paradise, er, paradox
According to Alan Guebert, there’s a paradox occurring in today’s commodity and financial markets. He sheds some light on it in his column this week.
