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Late Wednesday night, a U.S. appeals court rejected a federal regulator’s permit for dicamba herbicides, including Engenia, FeXapan and XtendiMax.
Current dry weather conditions could play havoc with the 2021 crop. Take proactive steps now to manage through these conditions, advises Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist.
As the 2020 harvest comes to a close, it’s a year marked with unknowns, but with government payments combined with improving commodity prices, the net farm income picture is looking brighter.
Ken Ferrie offers some practical, thoughtful recommendations on whether to select a seed treatment, as well as how to go about making the best decisions on which hybrids and varieties to buy for next year.
At the individual farm level, severe cases of SCN can destroy 80% of a soybean field’s yield potential
The U.S. and China reached a partial agreement Friday that would broker a truce in the trade war and lay the groundwork for a broader deal.
USDA announced a new tariff aid plan that offers a single payment rate for all commodities.
The Trump administration is preparing to announce another round of aid to farmers hurt by the trade war with China as soon as Thursday.
The U.S. hiked tariffs on more than $200 billion in goods from China on Friday in the most dramatic step yet of Donald Trump’s push to extract trade concessions.
Statistics show the nation’s farmers are struggling to pay back their loans after years of low crop prices _ with nearly one out of every five loans in a government farm program now delinquent.
President Donald Trump plans to meet with China’s top trade negotiator Friday afternoon as the U.S. tries to forge a preliminary deal with its biggest economic rival.
President Donald Trump says he will extend a deadline to escalate tariffs on Chinese imports, citing “substantial progress” in weekend talks between the two countries.
Highlights of the Commodity Title of the 2018 farm bill
Trade tensions between the U.S. and China ratcheted higher after the Asian nation said it will follow through on plans to levy tariffs on a range of American farm goods including soybeans and corn.
Lavish hunting trips, taxidermy animals, all-terrain vehicles and real estate were just a few of the purchases made with more than stolen $5.3 million from a farm cooperative by its former general manager.
Rost switched his farm to 100% no-till the following year and experimented with cover crops in a few areas. Today cover crops blanket every acre of his farm and he’s dedicated to keeping it that way.
The company sold Trunemco nematode management seed treatment to Nufarm. It also sold the Clearfield canola production system in the U.S. and Canada to Corteva Agriscience, the agriculture division of DowDuPont.
Herbicide applicators have the weight of dicamba’s future weighing heavily on their shoulders this year. EPA’s conditional registration lasts through Dec. 20, 2020.
BASF will add three new soybean seed treatment products for the 2021 season. These include Vault IP Plus, Poncho XC and Relenya seed treatments. All are registered with the EPA and available for sale or purchase.
During uncertainty, you might be looking for some answers when it comes to the 2020 planting season. Ken Ferrie, assures farmers that despite a wet start, they can still achieve high yields if managed correctly.
While recent trade agreements indicate positive momentum in the corn and soybean markets, it’s still not quite enough to make positive net returns, not without some unexpected help, that is.
In the parts of the country where fields are still too wet to get planters into fields, farmers are flying on soybean seed.
Despite rain challenges, summer will eventually get here—heat and all. It can be stressful for farmers waiting for Mother Nature to allow them to plant crops, or to wait to see if what they planted will survive.
While the weather is weighing down on soybean planting progress, most farmers still have time to get seeds in the ground.
Recent flood events mean many corn and soybean acres are at risk of late planting—if fields get planted at all.
In what weathermen are calling “historic” flooding, those along the Missouri, Elkhorn and Platte Rivers are enduring loss of homes, productivity and livestock.
Undoubtedly, wild weather has hit your state in one way, shape or form. These farmers took to social media to share their woes. What weather is ailing you?
Multiple factors already raising questions about whether corn acres can steal significant acres from soybeans in 2019.
There are always variances in yield and moisture across crop fields. This is due to topography, soil type and other management factors. However, this year wide spreads in moisture content will present challenges.
It’s not just farmers experiencing lower returns this past year, grain elevators could see their margins drop compared to 2018. Higher basis bears the brunt of the blame for elevators’ anticipated lower returns.