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Ethanol plants throughout the country are shutting its doors or limiting hours. It’s partly due to the coronavirus (COVID-19). Yet, there are other factors at play which include less demand for ethanol and gasoline.
With continued uncertainty around trade, sizeable stocks, flooding in the Midwest and fertilizer costs, will corn and soybeans keep all of these projected acres?
Uncertainty on trade issues and the subsequent price movements associated with speculation on the topic added a degree of difficulty to acreage decisions this year.
Corn planted area for all purposes in 2019 is estimated at 92.8 million acres, while soybean planted area for 2019 is estimated at 84.6 million acres.
This record number of prevent plant acres comes with not only financial challenges, but agronomic challenges as well.
Winter annual weeds will impact future plantings though. They act as alternate hosts for pests, impact soil temperature and can sequester moisture and nutrients from future crops.
Bayer is committed to marketing Roundup. At the same time, the company plans to reduce the environmental impact of crop protection products globally by 30% by developing new technologies for farmers’ use.
Corn subjected to heavy rainfall can still deliver a significant yield response to a nitrogen application -- in some cases, up to 60 bu.
Live events and online content combine to deliver information and resources when farmers need them most.
As a last-minute shift toward small-scale celebrations upends demand for the star of Thanksgiving tables, turkey producers and retailers are scrambling to fill orders for lightweight birds and partial cuts.
Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork processor, said on Wednesday it has medical capabilities at U.S. facilities and is actively preparing for COVID-19 vaccine distribution to employees.
Getting the crop planted is just the start of the battle.
This past year, prevent plant acres soared to a new record of 20 million. What that number fails to account for are the acres that did get planted but maybe shouldn’t have, and what field conditions mean for 2020.
The Tempo L planter offers a unique feature in the marketplace, a new way of delivering seed into the seed furrow, using air pressure.
“After this year there’s probably a situation now where we can use this technology to push our planting window just a little bit into more marginal conditions,” says Ken Ferrie.
More lawsuits hit the ag industry. Deere and Company is suing Kinze and Ag Leader for alleged patent infringement concerning the company’s high-speed planter.
The company says there is damage to multiple facilities.
A “catastrophic” grain bin failure in La Grange, Mo., on Monday morning lead to road closures as thousands of bushels of grain spilled from the structure.
With an 800-gal. capacity tank, Equipment Technologies introduces the AS840 into its Apache sprayer lineup for its 2020 models.
The company says Hawkeye 2 gives coverage up to 2.5 times more accurate than comparable systems on the market.
U.S. estimates show global wheat levels are stockpiled at 33% of annual consumption. Gro Intelligence says the world’s numerous economic crises prove government estimates are “not adding up.”
A potential stoppage on the nation’s railways this fall is spurring concern, even after President Biden signed an executive order Sunday to keep U.S. rail traffic on track and the collective bargaining process going.
Syngenta has appointed a senior executive to help steer the seeds and pesticides maker’s planned $10 billion flotation, the company said on Friday. Syngenta also announced additional management changes.
America’s Conservation Ag Movement is hosting a series of farmer-led, in-the-field agronomic events in five states this summer.
This spring about 100 growers in New York started shipping corn and soybeans to Europe and Africa, via the Great Lakes Seaway system.
The latest round of agricultural credit condition surveys from the Federal Reserve banks show high farm real estate values are supporting farm finances.
It’s also time to consider switching to corn planting if you are unable to plant corn and soybeans simultaneously. Beware of salt-burn risks in spring strip tillage, and start checking soybeans for bean leaf beetles.
As planting gets underway for more farmers across the U.S., improving production practices continues to be top of mind. And now U.S. farmers are proof success in stewardship starts from the ground up.
Availability could be a challenge this season. If you can only make one application, pull the trigger between tassel and R3 in corn and between R2 and R3 in soybeans, advises Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist.
Yield losses of 5 percent are par for the course in second-year soybeans. Pest problems can boost those losses to 50 percent or more.