January 31, 2006
Renessen LLC, a biotechnology company, has announced plans for a pilot plant to test a unique technology system in which new biotech corn hybrids with increased energy and nutrient levels will be combined with a novel dry corn separation technique designed for ethanol facilities.
January 31, 2006
February 1-2, 2006 – Ramkota Hotel, Sioux Falls, SD
January 31, 2006
Guess who is in the crosshairs of Wal-Mart’s future strategic plan. Yes, banks and possibly the Farm Credit System. Currently the FDIC is reviewing Wal-Mart’s application for a bank charter. Why would Wal-Mart want to enter banking and possibly become an agricultural lender?
January 30, 2006
Extension Update is a weekly summary of news from Extension, government, and other attributable sources, focused on marketing, farm management, and other issues that are of interest to Midwestern farm owners and operators.
January 30, 2006
We are pleased to announce our January 2007 incentive travel destination… Panama!
January 30, 2006
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January 30, 2006
University of Missouri Integrated Pest Management Newsletter
January 27, 2006
If soybean aphids continue their annual alternating high and low population cycles, Ohio soybean growers could see very few of the insects this growing season.
January 27, 2006
OMAHA (DTN) — A preliminary decision by a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel on the U.S. challenge of the European Union (EU) moratorium on approvals for crops derived from biotechnology is expected around February 1, a U.S. trade official said, according to the Washington File, a usinfo.state.gov release.
January 27, 2006
OMAHA (DTN) — Putting ethanol instead of gasoline in your tank saves oil and is probably no worse for the environment than burning gasoline, according to a new analysis by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
January 26, 2006
WASHINGTON D.C., – General Motors today launched an unprecedented national advertising and marketing campaign to build awareness and market acceptance for ethanol/gasoline blended fuel (E85) vehicles as a major plank in its corporate marketing campaign at the Washington Auto Show.
January 25, 2006
Dr. Rick Weinzierl reported last week in the Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News that there appear to be pyrethroid resistant corn earworm moths in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
January 25, 2006
Ohio Wheat Growers Annual Meeting – January 25 Winter Wheat Condition Concerns New Econ...
January 25, 2006
Soybean prices moved sharply higher in December, but gave up much of the gain in the first three weeks of January. A number of factors will influence price direction over the next several weeks.
January 25, 2006
Asian soybean rust didn’t show up in Ohio or Indiana in 2005. A lot of other soybean diseases did, and growers should take steps to limit future damage by those yield robbers, said Anne Dorrance, Ohio State University Extension plant pathologist.
January 25, 2006
The 2005 soybean growing season provided researchers, growers, and industry representatives with valuable information for 2006, yet there is still a great deal of information needed to understand soybean rust development and management, say plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS).
January 25, 2006
While soybean rust was not a major challenge for most U.S. farmers in 2005, relaxing against the threat of rust could be a mistake in 2006. The more information on rust, the easier it will be to control, which is why soybean checkoff farmer-leaders approved funds for additional sentinel plots to monitor the spread of soybean rust.
January 20, 2006
Annie’s Project Illinois has released its schedule of workshops for 2006. The organization has as its goal to empower farm women to be better business partners through networks and by managing and organizing critical information.
January 20, 2006
By Gene Johnston – Successful Farming Managing Editor It’s been an incredibly mild winter for most of soybean country, with temperatures 20 or more degrees above normal in the Midwest for the last month. The ground is unfrozen in much of Iowa, and some farmers have been doing light tillage operations and fertilizer injection, normally unheard of in January.
July 29, 2010
Soybean aphid population densities continue to be quite low statewide, and overall have not reached the economic threshold of 250 aphids per plant.
July 29, 2010
Soybean sudden death syndrome (SDS) can cause significant yield losses.
July 29, 2010
WOOSTER, Ohio – For the first time since the trapping of Western bean cutworm moths in corn began in 2006, Ohio State University research entomologists have identified egg masses and larvae.
July 29, 2010
Given this season’s frequent and excessive precipitation, many Illinois soybean fields have experienced later-than-normal applications of post-emergence herbicides.
