By Robert L. Kallenbach Winter cover crops on corn and soybean acres are a natural fit for crop-and-beef farms. Cover crops offer beef profit potential for the time between fall crop harvest and spring planting, says Rob Kallenbach. He ...
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Poor hay quality due to last year's increased rainfall, has Georgia cattle farmers searching for alternative ways to supplement the hay they feed their herd. Jacob Segers, beef cattle specialist with University of Georgia Extension, ...
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U.S. farmers produced a record-high 13.9 billion bushels of corn last year, but demand from livestock and ethanol producers is helping support corn prices and may provide modest selling opportunities for producers in the coming months, ...
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This spring, about 16,500 wheat and barley growers in 17 states will receive a questionnaire on Fusarium head blight (scab) from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The survey is for improving the understanding of how ...
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Here are some new products currently, or anticipated to be, available for the 2014 season along with label changes of some additional weed control products. Afforia 50.8SG (5% thifensulfuron (Harmony) + 5% tribenuron (Express) + 40.8% ...
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Monday's Closing Grain and Livestock Futures Mar. corn closed at $4.34 and 1/2, up 1 and 3/4 cents Jan. soybeans clocsed at $13.26 and 3/4, up 23 cents Jan. soybean meal closed at $446.90, up $11.70 Jan. soybean oil closed at 37.57, ...
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Wheat futures closed lower this week on continued pressure from record global supplies and poor export demand for U.S. wheat. Futures dropped sharply after USDA revised up its record-high world production forecast on Friday. CBOT wheat ...
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On Monday, the CME Group's corn, soybean and wheat markets are expected to start mostly higher. The early calls for the commodities on Monday, January 13, 2014, are mostly higher. Corn is seen opening 1 to 2 cents higher, soybeans 5 to 7 ...
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After a mild opening, the CME Group soybean market has jumped double-digits Monday. At mid-session, the March corn futures contract is trading 1 1/4 cents higher at $4.34. The March soybean futures contract is trading 15 cents higher at ...
Temperatures across the country this morning are in the teens and 20s from Nebraska northward, with 30s, 40s, and even a few 50 degree readings across the Midwest. A weak cold front is currently crossing the Midwest, with the associated ...
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Scientists led by experts at Durham University have discovered a natural mechanism in plants that could stimulate their growth even under stress and potentially lead to better crop yields. Plants naturally slow their growth or even stop ...
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WHEAT: U.S. wheat supplies for 2013/14 are unchanged this month, but lower expected use raises projected ending stocks 33 million bushels. Feed and residual use is lowered 60 million bushels reflecting disappearance for June-November as ...
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How do severe temperatures impact winter wheat? According to Bob Fanning, SDSU Extension Plant Pathology Field Specialist, the current winter wheat crop in South Dakota is doing well because it either received enough moisture early on in ...
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Soybeans were higher on fund and commercial buying, along with spillover from corn. 2013 soybean production was up on the year and larger than expected at 3.29 billion bushels, while quarterly stocks were up on the year, but ending stocks ...
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Soybeans were mixed ahead of Friday's USDA numbers. USDA's expected to report a big crop Friday, but that may be moderated by an increase in their export estimate, with the reports out at Noon Eastern/11 AM Central. China bought more U.S. ...
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