Retail anhydrous ammonia prices again are on the rise. The October 13, 2011 Illinois Production Cost Report by the Agricultural Marketing Service placed the average Illinois price of anhydrous ammonia at $853 per ton, up $52 per ton from the July 7th price of $801 per ton.

50-40-20. Those three numbers have great significance to the No-Till Farmer family.

Producers using a no-till wheat/row crop/fallow rotation may find that row crop yields in such a rotation are higher in years with relatively normal weather when the wheat stubble height is taller

While the USDA's September production forecast exceeded the August forecast, the recent sharp price decline primarily reflects the continuation of poor economic performance and concerns about financial conditions in Europe and the U.S.

Recognizing Ohio's top conservation farm families seemed particularly significant during this year's awards ceremony at the Farm Science Review Sept. 22.

Frank Lessiter, editor of No-Till Farmer, has been named by the University of Kentucky as the 2011 recipient of the Shirley Phillips No-Till Pioneer Award.

The American Soybean Association (ASA) is pleased to announce Ryan Speer of Jacob Farms in Sedgwick, Kan. (Midwest Region), Rodney Rulon of Rulon Enterprises in Arcadia, Ind. (Northeast Region) and E. Cullen Bryant of Bryant Farms in Dillon, S.C. (South Region) as the regional winners of the 2012 Conservation Legacy Awards.