Still working on your business plan for the 2007 crop year? Sharpen your pencil one more time if you haven’t included the cost of insecticides for your soybean crop. Aphid populations in the upper Midwest are expected to be near record highs, according to university entomologists.
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Monsanto Company, in conjunction with its soybean processing partner, Ag Processing Inc a cooperative, announced today a boost in the premium paid to producers for contract production of VISTIVE low-linolenic soybeans.
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To help growers manage resistance, Syngenta has created the Resistance Fighter Resistance Management Module, a tool to find herbicide solutions tailored to individual fields.
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Crop rotation is one of the most fundamental disease-control practices available.
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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.
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Here’s the latest from OSU.
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Although soybean rust has caused little or no damage during the past two years, growers are advised to be on high alert during the coming season.
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A new low-cost process for separating more oil from corn kernels before they are fermented could improve the efficiency of ethanol production, as well as increase the value of the co-products.
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Recent high yields recorded by Francis Childs in Iowa and by others have usually been from fields where corn is grown continuously.
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Mike Shuter has one eye on burgeoning ethanol plants and the other on his business plan for shifting to more corn acreage. This year, he made the shift.
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