News Archives for November 2007

Ethanol Craze Cools – WSJ

November 30, 2007

Ethanol Craze Cools As Doubts Multiply Claims for Environment, Energy Use Draw Fire; Fighting on the Farm By LAUREN ETTER, WSJ

IL: Extension Update

November 30, 2007

Here’s the latest update from Illinois

Grain Prices, Input Costs to Be High, Iowa Economist Warns Farmers

November 30, 2007

Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (IA) (KRT) — Nov. 29 — Grain prices should remain profitable in the near future and well into next year, Iowa’s leading grain economist said Tuesday.

Ohio Soybean Trials Online

November 28, 2007

The Ohio Soybean Performance Trial have become available on-line here

Corn farmers hope for even more growth

November 27, 2007

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Corn farmers had a lot to celebrate in 2007, but there’s plenty of room for growth.

Bayer CropScience, Mertec and M.S. Technologies to co-develop new soybean trait products

November 26, 2007

Joint collaboration will bring alternative herbicide tolerant systems and more choice for farmers in weed management

Making sense of FIRST and other independent yield trials

November 26, 2007

When looking at data from independent sources like universities and FIRST, how do you compare hybrids?

Farmers in Illinois, Corn Belt enjoy big-time corn harvests

November 26, 2007

Earl Williams has heard the joke about how farmers always find a reason to complain. But like many Midwest farmers, the northern Illinois grower of corn and soybeans has no gripes this year.

EU set to reject biotech corn applications

November 23, 2007

The New York Times reported Friday that the European Union (EU) looks set to disapprove planting of two separate types of biotech corn made by DuPont’s Pioneer seed division, Dow Agro and Syngenta.

IL: Extension Update

November 23, 2007

Here’s the link to this week’s edition

Fungicide seed treatments improve soybean stands, yields

November 23, 2007

Fungicide seed treatments offer protection from seedling diseases that can reduce soybean stands and reduce yields, said John Rupe, plant pathologist for the University of Arkansas system’s statewide Division of Agriculture.

U-W Corn Trials Posted

November 21, 2007

Great Lakes is entered in reports 8, 9, 10 and 11. Click here for the U/W Corn Trials

ISU: Hot Topic for the second year in a row

November 20, 2007

I have had dozens of questions about corn on corn management the few weeks.

KY: Bt corn and interpreting yield results in 2008

November 20, 2007

Last week the Early Bird Decision meetings were held in Western Kentucky to assist growers with their grain seed purchases for 2008.

Ohio C.O.R.N. Newsletter

November 20, 2007

Here’s the latest from OSU.

National Corn Growers Association urges U.S. growers to include refuge planning in seed purchase decisions – Industry underscores the need to plant refuge acres to preserve long-term value of the technology

November 19, 2007

As the 2007 corn harvest winds down, growers are looking ahead to the 2008 season and making plans for seed purchases and planting.

Purdue: Nematodes worming free of common soybean resistance

November 19, 2007

After almost three decades of shielding soybean plants from a deadly natural foe, the leading source of resistance against soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is showing chinks in its armor, said a Purdue University nematologist.

Missouri Integrated Pest & Crop Management Newsletter

November 19, 2007

Here’s the latest report from Missouri.

Maryland Farmer Provides Top-10 Continuous-Corn Management Tips

November 19, 2007

Much of Maryland experienced corn yields that were approximately 50% less than normal production (138 bu./acre average during the previous four years), with some areas that were hit particularly hard with drought that yielded only about 25% of normal, says Bob Kratochvil, University of Maryland Extension grain and oil crops specialist.

Budget Generator Helps Determine What Crop To Plant

November 19, 2007

Farmers should consider using the crop budget generator (CBG) to help them to decide whether to plant corn or soybeans in 2008.

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An ancient offshoot of soybeans may one day provide resistance to sudden death syndrome (SDS) and soybean rust, University of Illinois scientists reported at the recent U of I Agronomy Day.

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