Crop & Feed Grains
Field history, weather factor into disease management decisions
Field history and weather patterns are important in determining how to best manage crop diseases, says a Purdue plant pathologist.
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Corn, soybean profit margins could be squeezed to nothing
If you are a Corn Belt farmer, how will you be making enough money to survive a decade from now?
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As cuts loom, U.S. farm groups look for lower-cost crop subsidies
U.S. farm groups are looking for a formula to lower crop subsidy spending dramatically and end regional infighting ahead of new congressional demands for cuts in a farm bill now costing $10 billion more than planned.
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Anticipating the USDA's corn stocks estimate
On March 28, the USDA will release an estimate of U.S. corn stocks as of March 1, 2013. That estimate is based on a survey of all commercial storage facilities and a large sample of farmers.
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Weather patterns to determine if grain prices are lower in 2013
Whether or not these lower corn and soybean prices will occur during the next marketing year remains to be seen, and it will be primarily determined by weather conditions during this growing season.
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EU wheat exports boost demand for corn
According to the USDA's latest "Grains: World Markets and Trade" report, EU corn imports are up sharply in 2012 /13 as exports of wheat reduce domestic grain supplies.
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U.S. farmers stick with corn planting plans despite price drop
Recent declines in U.S. corn futures prices have failed to dent growers' enthusiasm for planting the feed grain this spring, even though soybean prices have outperformed corn, farmers and analysts said.
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WASDE: U.S. soybean supply and use unchanged
According to the USDA's latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, U.S. soybean supply and use projections for 2012/13 are unchanged this month, leaving ending stocks at 125 million bushels.
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WASDE: Corn exports lowered by 75 million bushels
According to the USDA's latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, projected 2012/13 U.S. corn ending stocks are unchanged this month as an increase in imports and lower exports support higher expected feed and residual disappearance.
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Adequate land ranks as top concern of young farmers
Securing adequate land to grow crops and raise livestock was the top challenge identified in the latest survey of participants in the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmers & Ranchers program.
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Relationship between crop returns and acreage decisions
Relative corn and soybean prices over the past few crop years have encouraged expansion of corn acreage and the use of more corn intensive rotations throughout much of the Midwest.
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