Brookings, S.D. - Soil testing has proven to be a reliable tool to guide fertilizer recommendations. However, growers are looking for additional ways to confirm that soil and fertilizer applications are meeting the nutritional needs of the ...
Tags: Soybean, Decision Tools
"Unlock your soil's potential" is the theme for the 36th annual Manitoba-North Dakota Zero Tillage Farmers Association Workshop and Trade Show scheduled for Jan. 6-8, at the Holiday Inn-Riverside in Minot, N.D. "Many producers think that ...
Tags: Agriculture, Chemicals
In a recent Slate article, ASU professors Jim Elser and Bruce Rittman presented two vastly different scenarios of the future. One depicts a world teeming with food insecurity due to rising fertilizer prices and decreasing crop yields and ...
Tags: ASU, Jim Elser, Bruce Rittman, phosphate, phosphate rock
China's wheat imports are expected to hit a nine-year high in 2013, as the country continues to turn to the international market to meet a surging demand for the grain for use in high-protein foods, animal feed, industry and processed ...
Tags: Wheat Imports, animal feed
As the cold of winter settles in across the United States, associations that represent the interests of wheat farmers met in many states to review the last year's activities and set plans for the next year. USW officers and staff look ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Yield results are in! The August 2013, Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) Newsletter reported on AWC funded research aimed at maximizing wheat yields and profitability. The project, being led by Sheri Strydhorst, Agronomic Research Scientist ...
Tags: wheat, agriculture
Keeping nitrogen fertilizer on farm fields, to support optimum crop growth, and out of streams and rivers is no simple formula. It's complex. "Think 'writing a novel' versus 'writing a recipe,' " said Matthew Helmers, an associate ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Remember to take nitrogen credits when you use other nitrogen sources. There are simple management practices that farms can implement to optimize nitrogen applications as well as protect groundwater from nitrogen leaching. One of the ...
Tags: nitrogen, nitrogen sources, nitrogen applications, nitrogen rates
If grassland is managed intensively, biodiversity typically declines. A new study led by Bernese plant ecologists shows that it is rare species that suffer the most. These negative effects could be reduced, if farmers varied the intensity ...
Tags: grassland, biodiversity, intensity of land, land-use intensity
Justus von Liebig's Law of the Minimum is an agronomic theory that states yield is proportional to the amount of the most limiting nutrient - whichever nutrient it may be. As a soils and crops consultant, it means I am going to tell you to ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
However, producers may want to be more aggressive than normal in forward-pricing crops that provide acceptable profit. Projected crop budgets generally show some return to labor and management for 2014, although the price of most crops ...
Tags: crops, agriculture, projected crop budgets
Sino Agro Food, a China-based food company focused on developing, producing and distributing agricultural products, has formed a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Sino Agro Food Sweden Aktiebolag (SIAFS), in Sweden. The latest subsidiary, ...
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China will adjust some of its customs duties on Jan. 1, 2014 to aid economic restructuring and achieve balanced trade growth, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday. Tariffs on some 760 imported commodities will be lowered by an ...
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Reportedly, the Brazilian mining giant Vale is planning to reduce costs and decrease capital spending by selling its minority interest of a 26.9% stake in its business of steel, coal and fertilizer in CSA Plant. The Plant is majority-owned ...
Tags: steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
According to a Monday report from Forbes, Brazilian mining giant Vale is planning to sell partial stakes in its steel, coal and fertilizer businesses in order to reduce costs and decrease capital spending. The steel stake up for grabs is ...
Tags: cost, metallurgy, CSA