By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Soy-meal supply bearishly exceeds demand. Russia has stopped imports of U. S. poultry reducing demand for soy-meal. ...
From the American Soybean Association
The American Soybean Association (ASA) has called for the Senate to reinsert a retroactive extension of the biodiesel tax incentive in the first jobs bill it passes to save the jobs of 23,000 people working in the biodiesel industry....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Five factors can influence the cropping decision for Mid-South and Southeast cotton producers — commodity prices, the farmer’s affiliation with infrastructure such as grain bins or gins, the need to spread labor and/or equipment, yield consistency and the need to rotate crops to address disease, nematodes and resistant weeds....
While the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show — now just a week away — offers producers a firsthand look at a wide-ranging array of new products and services, this year’s event will feature a broad lineup of educational seminars focusing on resistance concerns in crops, marketing/outlook, and legislation....
The changes and challenges in agriculture the past few years have made farmers more aware than ever of the need to develop long-term strategies....
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I recently attended the Pan American Weed Resistance Conference and it was excellent....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Managing resistant weeds is going to cost producers money, whether it’s plowing and cover-cropping, adding modes of action or rotating to another crop that may not be as well-suited for the soil type....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
It may have been fun while it lasted, but the days of planting your crop, spraying your fields a couple of times with a postemergence herbicide and getting acceptable weed control appear to be over....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA is projecting a 1 million-bale increase over last month in cotton exports for 2009-10, thanks to new export sales of more than 1.8 million bales made in January....
The latest USDA crop report appears friendly to corn and soybean producers, said Melvin Brees, crop economist with the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI)....
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