Crop & Feed Grains
Analyst, futurist square off on where corn markets are headed
Richard Brock, commodity analyst, and Jay Lehr, Ph.D., agriculture futurist, have found themselves disagreeing over the direction of the corn market.
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U.S. drought relief improving, cold snap being eyed
Rain and snow is expected Friday and Saturday in Kansas and Colorado, which will add valuable moisture to dry soils in the drought-ravaged hard red winter wheat belt, an agricultural meteorologist said on Wednesday.
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Milk Income Loss Contract program escapes budget cuts -- for now
The U.S. government will trim payments to 350,000 farmers by about $152 million to comply with automatic spending cuts that took effect at the start of this month, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday.
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The beginning of 2013 brings drought relief to Missouri
Last year’s high temperatures and long-term drought conditions left Missouri with a major soil-moisture and surface-water deficit. But as the adage goes, “Don’t like Missouri weather, just wait and it will change.”
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Farmers, ranchers mitigate impacts of drought with good planning
USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service is helping to mitigate impacts of drought across the nation. With good drought plans and conservation systems, farmers and ranchers are better equipped to manage dry and other extreme weather.
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Will we run out of soybeans?
Bargain basement prices may have allowed US soybeans to become a rare commodity in future months.
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The future of fertilizer
Farmers have long known one of the best ways to increase crop production is to add nutrients to the soil. Development and adoption of concentrated synthetic fertilizers, along with plant breeding, irrigation and other technologies, helped fuel the Green Revolution during the middle of the 20th Century.
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Brumm Speaks Out: Cow herd use of DDGS impacting pricing
As I write this blog this week I’m sitting at the fairgrounds in Sioux Center, Iowa with approximately 225 pork producers doing PQA Plus certification to be followed by my presentation on summer heat management and emergency ventilation issues. These producers are both contract growers and owners of pigs.
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Distillers grain prices remain strong
Ethanol coproduct feed prices have increased since the beginning of the year, albeit not to the record prices posted in August 2012 when corn price peaked.
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Strip-till systems provide key benefits for corn
Evidence has shown that strip-till systems combine many of the best aspects of no-till and conventional tillage systems.
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Indiana crop insurance payouts top $1 billion
Indiana farmers so far have received a state record $1 billion in crop insurance payments from losses last year when drought ravaged crops throughout the state.
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