For years Beijing stressed that the country’s farmers must grow enough grain to feed the masses. Measures enacted in 1996 called on China to produce 95% of its own grain. That policy reflected concerns rooted deep in centuries of food ...
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A survey of no-till farms using cover crops indicate 30% of growers plant their cash crop into a green cover crop. Last spring and early summer, we conducted a short cover crop management survey among a small number of no-till farmers in ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, cash crop, green cover crop, soybean
Soybeans were sharply lower on fund and commercial selling. Ending stocks were down on the month at 145 million bushels, but that was still larger than expected. Additionally, it looks like traders are more focused on planting and quarterly ...
Tags: Soybeans, Agriculture, Food
Desmet Ballestra has completed the installation of an oil refining and processing equipment developed by Cavitation Technologies (CTI) at soybean oil refinery in South Korea. The Nano Neutralization equipment is capable of processing more ...
PRC, Bearish news continues to dominate the newswires in China. Many pork producers continue to be constrained by negative margins as the industry grapples with oversupply. Meanwhile, the poultry industry remains rocked by the H79N virus ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
New Whole-Farm EncircaSM service Offerings Unveiled MIAMI, Feb. 27, 2014 – DuPont Executive Vice President James C. Borel outlined growth drivers across the seed, crop protection and nutrition and health businesses today at the ...
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Low-calorie sugars offer new way to solidify vegetable oils and gels Researchers at the City College of New York have reported the successful transformation of vegetables oils into a semi-solid form using low-calorie sugars as a ...
Tags: Low-calorie sugars, solidify vegetable oils and gels, semi-solid form
US corn planting will total 93.5M acres this year while soybean seeding is pegged at 78M acres, the Department of Agriculture said in its baseline projections report today. Some traders dismissed the report because it's "way overplayed" ...
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U.S. Milk Production Up Slightly for February on Small Herd Expansion; Higher U.S. Milk Production and Foreign Competition Will Temper Price Increases The most recent USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report raised the ...
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Many farmers may be questioning whether their soybeans need a fungicide seed treatments this planting season. But that depends on many factors – from weather and planting date to drainage and seed costs. And if conditions or field ...
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Seth Naeve, Ph.D., is a soybean researcher at the University of Minnesota U.S. soybean farmers are heavily dependent on demand from international purchasers. Although global supplies are currently relatively tight, buyers do have a ...
Tags: Soybean, Protein Levels, Oil Levels
Gloomy Crop Prices Forecasted by Economist Joe Glauber at USDA Outlook Forum By Farms.com Team At the opening session of today's USDA Outlook Forum in Arlington, Va., Joe Glauber, USDA's chief economist, presented the lower grain price ...
A new collaboration promises the ability for growers to more accurately plan, place, and manage nitrogen applications on a real-time basis, growers will have more corn hybrid choices for 2014, U.S. soybean crop quality survey shows less ...
Gloomy Crop Prices Forecasted by Economist Joe Glauber at USDA Outlook Forum By Farms.com Team At the opening session of today's USDA Outlook Forum in Arlington, Va., Joe Glauber, USDA's chief economist, presented the lower grain price ...
Tags: Gloomy Grain, Food
Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. USDA’s outlook forum projects soybean planting at 79.5 million acres, less than what many private firms were expecting, so it looks like beans are trying to buy some acreage. ...