Allendale, Incorporated estimates a 12.4 million acre increase in the 2007 corn crop at 90.76 million acres.
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Despite the Midwestern ethanol boom and increased corn acreage and prices, Indiana farmers are still planting soybeans – and lots of them, said Shawn Conley, Purdue University soybean specialist.
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Here’s the latest from Purdue.
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The first armyworm moth found in Illinois this year was captured in a pheromone trap on March 8 in Pope County, and three more armyworm moths have been captured since.
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Proper planting practices are the first step to overcoming yield limitations the environment can put on a corn crop.
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Soybean planting is a month or more away for most of the Cornbelt, but the nervousness about Asian soybean rust was recently heightened with confirmation that remnants of rust were found in soybeans stored in Iowa.
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WCM PDF version of March 22 issue for download and printing is now online.
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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 PSU.
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Talk to anyone who has tried strip-tilling corn, and you’ll find a lot can go wrong at first. Yet relatively few farmers quit the practice once they’ve begun.
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