The long-range weather outlook this spring bodes well for Midwestern corn production, says Mark Seeley, University of Minnesota Extension climatologist/meteorologist.
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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced Wednesday the availability of $176.5 million in loan guarantees and almost $11.4 million in grants to support investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements by agricultural producers and small businesses. Johanns made the announced during his keynote remarks at the Renewable Fuels Association’s 11th Annual National Ethanol Conference.
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With farm income anticipated to be down nearly $15 billion in 2006 compared with 2005, the American Farm Bureau Federation has launched a new Web site to assist farmers and ranchers make production decisions based on prevailing economic factors. The goal is to help producers increase their income and reduce expenses for a positive bottom line.
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The Corn & Soybean Digest via NewsEdge Corporation : Both U.S. corn and soybean growers have found benefits in biotech trait seed—greater yield potential, simpler weed and pest control and improved handling safety. But who bears the cost of the technology has become a point of considerable debate, especially in light of illegal biotech soybean seed use in South America the last several years.
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Michigan House Republicans hope to help the state’s agriculture industry by offering farmers incentives to meet environmental standards, representatives said Tuesday.
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GARNETT, KAN. – On early mornings at East Kansas Agri-Energy, trucks pack the driveway to unload bushels of dry yellow corn into a hopper. By nighttime, those kernels are ready to transform — they’ll turn into fuel.
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Kudzu is an alternate host for ASR, but how much it contributes to the rust threat in the U.S. is still being investigated.
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Nobel Laureate Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, often referred to as the “Father of the Green Revolution” in agriculture, will receive the Danforth Award for Plant Science in recognition of his life-long commitment to increasing global agricultural production through plant science.
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Ohio State University plant pathologist Sophien Kamoun likes to know his enemies. And as the key player in two recently funded, $6.7 million projects aimed at sequencing the genome of two devastating crop killers, he will get to know all 20,000 genes of them.
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Syngenta Crop Protection, makers of the Touchdown® brand portfolio of glyphosate herbicides, unveiled today the benefits covered by the 2006 Touchdown Assurance Plan (TAP), northern U.S. version.
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