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.
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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.
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• Ohio Wheat Growers Annual Meeting – January 25
• Winter Wheat Condition Concerns
• New Economic Based Nitrogen Recommendations for Corn Are Now Online!
• 2005 Quadris/Warrior Strip Trials
• Northern Ohio Crops Day February 9th
• Conservation Tillage & Technology Conference February 24 & 25
• Agricultural Statistics, Least Significant Differences (LSD)
• Weed Management Considerations for Roundup Ready Corn
• Economic Consideration in Agronomic Production Meeting February 22

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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In 2006, KWS celebrates 150 years of operations. In this period, KWS has developed from a breeding firm for sugar beet to a leading international plant breeder, which today is represented in 68 countries worldwide.
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