Corn, Soybean Harvest Picks Up Slowly  

By Richard Brock

Corn and soybean harvest activity started to pick up last week, but continues to lag well behind normal with crops maturing slowly...

Soil Testing May Help Minimize Potassium, Phosphorus Costs 

Source: Purdue University

With fertilizer prices the highest they've ever been, the most important thing row-crop growers can do is take a soil sample and have it analyzed...

Ohio-Developed Soy Toner Recognized with Presidential Green Chemistry Award: Available in Marketplace Later this Year  

Source: Ohio Soybean Council

Printers and copiers around the globe will soon be changed for the better as they will begin to use soy-based toner...

Conventional Soybeans Offer High Yields at Lower Cost 

Source: University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Conventional soybean varieties are making a comeback. Lower seed and weed-control costs, price incentives at the grain elevator and yields that rival...

Harvest Ready To Begin 

By Kent Thiesse

Above-normal temperatures during most of the month of September in southern Minnesota, have allowed the 2008 corn and soybean crops to either reach maturity, or be very close to maturity. Many of the early planted corn hybrids have now reached physiological ...

Corn Harvest 5% Complete  

By Richard Brock

Crop maturity continues to lag as much as three weeks behind normal, but the U.S. corn harvest is slowly picking up steam and was 5% done at the end of last week according to ...

New SCN Scouting Video 

Don’t be fooled by healthy-looking soybean plants. They can still suffer from soybean cyst nematode (SCN), says Iowa State University Plant Pathologist and Nematologist Greg Tylka. For step-by-step video instruction on how to inspect your soybean roots ...

Production Forecasts Cut 

Even with the USDA's recent cut in 2008 corn and soybean production forecasts, price prospects are far from settled, says Darrel Good, a University of Illinois Extension marketing...

New study says high grain prices are likely here to stay 

Source: University of Illinois

An ethanol-fueled spike in grain prices will likely hold, yielding the first sustained increase for corn, wheat and soybean prices in more than three decades, according to new research by Darrel ...

September Crop Report 

By Kent Thiesse

The USDA Crop Report released on Sept. 12 decreased the estimated U.S. corn production for 2008 by about 2%, or by approximately 216 million bushels, from the Aug. 1 estimate. The expected total production level ...