Cash Rent Decisions 

Source: University of Illinois

Caution seems warranted in increasing cash rents for 2007, says a University of Illinois Extension farm financial management specialist....

Monsanto Company And Landec Corporation Reach Two Agreements 

Monsanto Company and Landec Corporation have announced two separate agreements, both of which are expected to broaden their reach and product offerings to U.S. farmers...

U.S., South American Growers Prepare For Joint Trade Mission To India 

Developing new markets for soybeans and soy products around the world is good for U.S. and South American farmers alike, and India holds enormous potential as a new market for soybean exports...

Trade Negotiations Gear Up To Resume 

There are indications the World Trade Organization (WTO) will resume the Doha round negotiations, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) says....

Johanns Announces Soybean Board Appointments 

Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns has announced 15 appointments, 1 interim appointment, and 1 alternate appointment to the United Soybean Board (USB)...

Missouri Soybean Producer Wins MSA Yield Contest And Breaks World Record 

Kip Cullers, Purdy, MO, has established a new world soybean production record. Averaging 139.39 bu./acre, Cullers is the winner of the conventional category of the 2006 Missouri Soybean Association (MSA) yield contest. ...

Workshop Emphasizes Planning For Success Of Family Farms 

Source: University of Nebraska

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln workshop Dec. 1-2 and Jan. 5-6 will help students, young farmers and parents face the challenges associated with handing down the family farm....

Checkoff-Funded Research May Reduce Drought Yield Drag 

Few factors affect soybean farmers like the weather, and it’s the one factor you can’t change, only try to manage....

CHS Announces Low Linolenic Soybean Contracting Opportunities With Pioneer 

CHS Inc. has announced that it will be contracting low linolenic soybeans from Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., for the 2007 growing season to provide the food marketplace with low lin soy oil to support the demand for healthier foods....

Wild Poinsettia Prevails Over Glyphosate In Brazil 

Wild poinsettia, or Euphorbia heterophylla, has been confirmed resistant to glyphosate in Brazil, making it the eleventh weed in the world to develop resistance to the herbicide....

Survey Shows U.S. Adults Support Government Incentives For Biofuels 

Four in five U.S. adults (80%) strongly or somewhat agree that national and state governments are not doing enough to promote production of biofuels according to a survey released by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)....

Do You Know A Farmer Or Rancher Who Deserves $10,000? 

Nominations are now being accepted for American Farmland Trust's 2007 Steward of the Land Award....

Farm Equipment Manufacturers Predict 2007 U.S., Canadian Retail Sales Trends 

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has released its 2007 “ag outlook” report, which provides farm machinery manufacturers’ predictions for overall business volume in the U.S. and Canada....

Dow AgroSciences, DuPont Expand Access to Herculex Traits 

Dow AgroSciences LLC and DuPont subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., announced that they will make their new and increasingly popular family of insect resistant biotech traits more readily available to growers....

U of I Robots Go Solar; New System Could Drastically Reduce Herbicide Use 

Source: University of Illinois

A solar-powered robot with 20/20 vision, on a search-and-destroy quest for weeds, will soon be moving up and down the crop rows at the experimental fields at the University of Illinois....