USDA’s juggling of its corn balance sheet left the expected carryover next August at an 18 year high. By reducing export estimates Extension Specialist Darrel Good says we will have 2.419 bil. bu. which is 22.5% of the projected consumption during the current marketing year. He says that stocks-to-use ratio would be the highest in 13 years.
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The F.I.R.S.T. Tests have released their 2005 Results in the current issue of Corn-Soybean Digest. Here are the Zone Summaries:
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GREENSBORO, N.C. December 15, 2005 ― Cruiser®Maxx® Pak (or FastBreak CP from Great Lakes Hybrids) proved its strength and value during its first year of commercial use. CruiserMaxx Pak-treated soybeans showed stronger stands, better plant vigor and quicker canopy, ultimately flourishing into a high-yielding crop.
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Because of disease-favorable weather in 2004, gray leaf spot and northern leaf blight were potential threats to the 2005 crop. However, dry weather was so prevalent in the 2005 growing season that it helped suppress these and other leaf diseases.
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Attention Ag. Contacts,

We have attached the most recent edition of Sangamon-Menard Extension’s “Crop Update” for your use. Please feel free to forward this information to your peers and contact us with the addresses of those you would like to see added to our “Crop Update” e-mail list.
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Purdue University researchers have discovered that a winter weed common throughout Indiana helps soybean cyst nematode survive and reproduce, even when soybeans are not present in a field.
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Three-year summary of corn rootworm control products
by Marlin E. Rice and Jim D. Oleson, Department of Entomology
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December 16 – Ovid, Mich. – Great Lakes Hybrids won 18 state champions out of its 52 entries in the 2005 National Corn Growers Association’s National Corn Yield Contest. Great Lakes had six winners in Kentucky, three in Michigan and Tennessee, two each in Illinois and Ohio and one in Indiana and Missouri.
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Farmers experience year -on-year improvements from biotech crops

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 6, 2005)—As a result of increasing benefits from biotechnology -derived (biotech) crop varieties, farmers are adopting the technology with greater ease than ever before, according to a new study update released by the National Center of Food and Agricultural Policy (NCFAP).
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