Crop & Feed Grains
Smithfield says it will meet China's deadline on pork
Smithfield Foods Inc, the world's largest pork processor, said on Thursday it will be able to supply pork that is free of the feed additive ractopamine in time to meet a March 1 deadline by China.
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Reduced corn prospects takes USDA grain exports forecast down
The USDA lowered its fiscal 2013 forecast for grain and feed exports by $4.3 billion from it’s November prediction according to the latest USDA Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade.
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Are you planting more corn or soybeans in 2013?
Have you decided whether to plant more corn or more soybeans in 2013? Many farmers will remain with a 50/50 crop rotation or other formula that works best with their fields, but if you are changing your planting plans, what are you going to do, and why?
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Record area of biotech crops used in 2012
Developing countries accounted for the first time last year for more than half the global biotech crop area, though the United States remains the primary nation making use of genetically altered crops, according to an industry report.
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Crop forecaster sees 2013/14 U.S. soy harvest up 15 percent
Crop forecaster Lanworth on Wednesday said it expects U.S. soybean production to rise to 3.465 billion bushels in the 2013/14 crop year, based on average yield of 43.1 bushels per acre.
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Have you decided yet on a seeding rate for your 2013 corn crop?
Planters are being repaired, upgraded, and modified, as well as torn apart and reassembled in machine sheds throughout the Corn Belt.
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Take steps to control wind erosion before springtime winds blow
Even with recent precipitation here and there throughout the midsection of the country, drought conditions persist through several states, which could heighten prospects for wind erosion once springtime winds kick in.
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U.S. government won't fall apart on "sequester" day of reckoning
Just as computers worldwide did not crash on January 1, 2000, in the "Y2K" scare and Earth itself did not shatter on December 21, 2012, as some interpreters of the Mayan calendar predicted, March 1, 2013, will not be remembered as the day the U.S. government disintegrated.
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Dry Crop Belt counts on more than a drop of February rain
Wheat and corn farmers are banking on more rain and snow in late February so they can keep nursing depleted soil back to healthier levels of moisture amid the worst drought in the United States grain belt in more than 50 years.
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New UN report claims a fertilizer crisis is looming
The United Nations has issued a new report, “Our Nutrient World” that claims the world is facing a fertilizer crisis because some areas of the world have too much fertilizer and others not enough.
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Risk management plans includes crop insurance
Many farms look to crop insurance as a key component of their risk management plan.
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- Oil falls as Fed minutes send U.S. equities down
- Ag markets diverged widely Wednesday afternoon
- Cold Storage: Frozen pork supplies up from March
- Tyson sends disaster-assistance truck to Oklahoma
- University workshops address workforce management issues
- Mexico says U.S. not respecting WTO ruling on meat labeling
- Corn and soybean prices continue to retrace 2012 drought rally
- Swine virus confirmed in Iowa, Indiana hog herds
- Business seminars scheduled for World Pork Expo
- Special health claim for this pork
- USDA says has detected virus in Iowa hog population
- Mexico says U.S. not respecting WTO ruling on meat labeling
