Michigan Farmer along with Michigan Farm Radio Network and the Michigan Agri-Business Association has named their Master Farmers for 2006 – Dennis Hasenick, Bob Dykhuis and David Morris. Hasenick and Morris have been long-time Great Lakes Hybrids dealers.
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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.
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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.
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Renessen LLC, a biotechnology company, today announced plans for a new 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. The new system represents a step change in the agriculture and biofuels industries and has the potential to increase the profitability of corn growers, ethanol producers, and swine and poultry producers.
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In 2006, Intensive scouting in Florida between January 11 and 13 resulted in positive finds of soybean rust in nine Florida counties: Polk, Duval, Leon, Alachua, Pasco, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lee, and Gadsden. Polk county was the only one of the nine county with no soybean rust finds in 2005.
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Jefferson City , MO – Eleven U.S. Senators have recently signed a letter in support of the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Tax Credit that was enacted January 1, 2006. The letter urges Secretary John Snow to expedite the IRS guidance and rulemaking so that the new credit may be used by fuel retailers to install E85 infrastructure.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—The Missouri Soybean Association (MSA) and Corn Growers Association (MCGA) today jointly announced their opposition to building biodiesel and ethanol facilities in counties that have adopted health ordinances to restrict livestock and poultry production.
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St. Louis, MO, (February 17, 2006)—The European Union’s (EU) recent decision to approve YieldGard® Rootworm Corn for food ingredients has paved the way for YieldGard Rootworm to be used in human foods in Europe.
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More than three billion bushels of US beans need a home. Even more than that will come from South America in a couple months, which will also need a home. And as you know the economic conditions for the “homeless” are rather dismal. Although an aberration in the market has recently allowed producers to enjoy $6 prices, those numbers are fading in the wake of market fundamentals the US Department of Agriculture reports are realities.
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