Corn
China's Grain Crop Seen Down
Mar 18, 2009 2:30 PM | Source: Brock Associates
The China National Grain and Oils Information Center (CNGOIC) on Friday forecast that China’s combined output of major grains will slip for the first time in six years in 2009.... More
Doubling a Gene in Corn Results in Giant Biomass
Mar 18, 2009 2:26 PM | Source: University of Illinois
University of Illinois plant geneticist Stephen Moose has developed a corn plant with enormous potential for biomass, literally. It yields corn that would make good... More
Trade Sees Smaller Soy Stocks, Larger Corn Carry
Mar 10, 2009 4:02 PM | Source: Brock Associates
The grain trade is expecting USDA to trim its estimate of the 2008-2009 U.S. soybean carryout a bit further in Wednesday’s monthly supply/demand update, while raising its projections of corn and wheat ending stocks.... More
New Online Calculator Helps Growers Analyze Natural Resource Use, Sustainability
Mar 2, 2009 4:14 PM | Source: Field to Market
Farmers will now be able to analyze their natural resource use and key corn and soybean (and other crops) production inputs using a new online tool introduced at Commodity Classic by Field to Market,... More
Major Commodity Organizations Reiterate Importance of 2008 Farm Bill Safety Net
Mar 2, 2009 4:11 PM | Source: National Corn Growers Association
“As the leaders of participant organizations at the 2009 Commodity Classic, which represent almost 90% of our nation's crop area planted, we would like to take this ... More
Corn News
Decisions Await Farmers With Crop Insurance
Jun 16, 2008 12:00 PM | Source: Purdue University
Indiana farmers who insured their 2008 crops have decisions to make if recent floods damaged... More
Post Emergent Herbicide Choices
Jun 13, 2008 12:00 PM | Source: University of Illinois
Recent rains and warmer temperatures will make the weeds grow as fast as the crop, and shorten your time for applying a post emergent herbicide if your pre-emergent herbicide has failed or was never applied. University of Illinois Extension weed specialist Aaron Hager says you have several choices. ... More
Bt
Welcome, Western Bean Cutworm
Feb 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Mark Moore
When western bean cutworm (WBC) moths first started showing up in Wisconsin traps in 2004, it was a novelty. The pest had been known to creep into an... More
BT Successful in South
Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM | By Larry Stalcup
As southern growers get used to having more corn on their former cotton acres, they are finding that Bt corn can work as well as Bt cotton to control... More
Biotech traits
Future of Ag Biotechnology
Sep 3, 2008 3:11 PM | By Kent Thiesse
Within the past couple of years, USDA released a report about the future of biotechnology in agriculture that is quite interesting. This report, “Opportunities and Challenges in Agricultural ... More
Traits Worth the Wait
Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM | By Susan Winsor
Since designer genes first debuted in 1996, exciting new corn seed traits have steadily advanced. Over the next five to seven years, the trait package... More
Conservation tillage
A Nod To No-Till
Feb 15, 2009 12:00 PM | By Loretta Sorensen
It didn't happen overnight, but Bismarck, ND, farmer Gabe Brown raises 140-bu. corn with fewer than 15 lbs. of commercial fertilizer. He has successfully... More
Now All No-Till
Feb 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Meggie Foster
Politicians and green gurus preach how conservation is the right thing to do for the environment. But for most farmers, a long-term conservation system... More
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Corn rootworm traits
A Front-Row View
Apr 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Mark Moore
Don't let crop scouting slip down your priority list. Truth is, with the plethora of resources available at your fingertips, scouting is probably one... More
Scouting Made Simple
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM | By Jen Bennett
Sweltering temperatures and pollinating corn don't make you say, Let's go scouting! But, those are generally the conditions under which scouting for corn... More
Disease
Coddle Your Corn
Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Jen Bennett
Unpredictable. Change of pattern. We'll see what the weather brings. That's what entomologists and pathologists say when it comes to pests and diseases... More
Glyphosate tolerance
Residual Herbicides No Match For Wet Soil
Apr 29, 2009 11:36 AM | Source: Purdue University
Soil-applied herbicides can knock out a farmer's toughest weeds, but the chemical products are no match against soggy fields, says Bill Johnson, Purdue University Extension weed specialist.... More
Resounding Resistance
Apr 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Larry Stalcup
It's kind of sickening. Jarrett Nehring frowns when making that response. Who wouldn't, when a 25-bu. drop in soybean yields flashes on the yield monitor... More
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Pests
Is IPM MIA?
Apr 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Liz Morrison
Caution flags are going up around the Midwest, warning farmers about the risks of pest-control tactics. The tried-and-true principles of integrated pest... More
Coddle Your Corn
Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Jen Bennett
Unpredictable. Change of pattern. We'll see what the weather brings. That's what entomologists and pathologists say when it comes to pests and diseases... More
Seed
Don’t Skimp on Seeding
Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By Larry Stalcup
As corn margins squeeze production even tighter, cutting costs is important. But don't count on reducing seeding rates or plant populations to slash inputs.... More
Expert explains five key steps for selecting corn hybrids
Dec 10, 2008 5:01 PM | Ohio State University
Expert explains five key steps for selecting corn hybrids... More
Strip-till
Spring Forward to Strip-Till
Mar 1, 2009 12:00 PM | By John Russnogle
When Jeff Reints started strip-tilling nearly a decade ago, he used a homemade rig built with parts he already had. He built a strip-till bar using shanks... More
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