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What Corn, Soybean and Wheat Farmers Learned at Commodity Classic
Mar 9, 2010
Click here to see all our coverage from CSD staff members in Anaheim, CA, for the 2010 Commodity Classic...
Movement Grows For Biotech Wheat
Mar 9, 2010, Larry Stalcup
The National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) is gearing up for a strong campaign for commercialization of biotech wheat...
Profitable Wheat – What’s It Take?
Mar 1, 2010, By Larry Stalcup, eWheat editor
A profitable wheat crop wasn’t hard to come by when prices surged toward and beyond $10/bu. in the crazy trends seen in 2008. But realistically, the profit you make depends on both wheat prices and your input costs...
USDA Forecasts 12% Higher Net Farm Income
Mar 1, 2010, Source: USDA
The Farm Income Forecast released by USDA-ERS projects net farm income will be $63 billion in 2010, up $6.7 billion, or 11.8% higher than 2009. The 2010 forecast is $1.4 billion below the average of $64.5 billion in net farm income earned in the previous 10 years...
Graze-Out Or Not
Mar 1, 2010, By Eddie Funderburg and Job Springer, Samuel Noble Foundation consultants
If you planted wheat in the fall, it’s decision time on whether to graze it out or keep it for grain. This decision is based on many factors, including value of gain for livestock, grain prices, potential grain yield of the field and presence or absence of certain hard-to-control weeds if you decide to go for grain...
Expanded Cuban Exports Sought By House Ag Committee Chairman
Mar 1, 2010, Source: House Agriculture Committee
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-MN) has introduced legislation to expand U.S. agriculture exports to Cuba. This bipartisan bill, H.R. 4645, the Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act, is co-sponsored by 30 other members of Congress, including U.S. Reps Jerry Moran (R-KS), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) and Jo Ann Emerson...
Commodity Classic This Week In SoCal
Mar 1, 2010
Anaheim, CA, will be host this week to not only tourists hitting the beach and doing Disneyland – but also thousands of wheat, corn, soybean and sorghum growers attending the Commodity Classic...
Market Trends Identified At U.S. Grains Council Conference
Mar 1, 2010, Source: USGC
Carole Brookins, a leading agricultural marketing consultant in Washington, examined grain market trends during the recent U.S. Grains Council 7th International Marketing Conference...
Ag Groups Ask Vilsack to Release More GSM-102 Funds
Mar 1, 2010, Source: NAWG
NAWG, U.S. Wheat Associates and 17 other agriculture organizations have written Sec. of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urging additional GSM-102 export credit allocations be made available to foreign buyers by USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service...
Grants For Beginning Producers
Mar 1, 2010
USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has announced the availability of more than $18 million in grants to help train, educate and enhance the sustainability of the next generation of farmers through the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program...
Corn and Soybeans Supported by Demand
Feb 23, 2010, By Forrest Laws
U.S. corn, soybean and wheat farmers are benefiting from record demand at home and abroad, demand which is preventing record crop production from pushing commodity prices much below current levels, USDA Chief Economist Joseph Glauber says...
Drying Progress of Corn Standing in the Field Over Winter
Feb 18, 2010, Source: University of Wisconsin Extension
Due to the unusually cool growing season during 2009, many farmers left their corn standing in the field over winter. On Dec. 7, 2009 USDA reported that about 23% of Wisconsin's corn crop had not been harvested...
Web Site Offers Soybean Farmers Guide to Premium Opportunities
Feb 17, 2010, Source: Indiana Soybean Alliance
More than 20 Indiana companies are now posting their soybean contract premium programs at a single Web site – http://www.SoybeanPremiums.org – so Hoosier soybean farmers can easily search for value-added opportunities in their area...
ASA Calls for Senate to Put Biodiesel Jobs Back in Jobs Bill
Feb 17, 2010, Source: American Soybean Association
The American Soybean Association (ASA) is calling 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...
Estate Planning Stalls With Death Tax In Morgue
Feb 17, 2010, By John Pocock
The 111th Congress failed to agree on legislation to extend the federal estate tax for deaths in 2010. No death tax is good news, especially for heirs whose relatives pass on their farm this year, right ...
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