U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the USDA will take several actions to assist farmers in response to what the department says is trade damage from unjustified retaliation and trade disruption.
With China approving Syngenta's Agrisure Viptera trait, South Dakota State University sees the U.S. becoming a major corn export for the country's increasing livestock demands.
Sterling Liddell, vice president of food and agricultural research for Rabo Agri Finance, says some rationing is occurring in livestock and ethanol production as prices rise, and soybean prices remain strong and could hold that strength through spring 2013.
Controlled traffic, cover crops and continuous no-till are boosting yields and profitability in South America, Australia and elsewhere as worldwide no-till acres near 300 million.
To gauge the world’s supply of arable farming acres, an agricultural expert once compared Earth to the size of an apple, cut into 32 slices. The number of acres suitable for food production represents only one slice, and the apple’s skin represents the world’s supply of topsoil.
Chinese orders for U.S. corn increased in July and include the 2011 crop, but unge and Consolidated Grain & Barge (CGB) have indicated they will not accept grain containing the Agrisure Viptera trait.
During January’s 14th annual National No-Tillage Conference in St. Louis, Charlie Rentschler gazed into the crystal ball and came up with 11 major trends no-tillers will have to deal with by the year 2020.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Montag Manufacturing, growers from across the U.S. share their predictions for the upcoming planting season, including one no-tiller who’s “bullish” about a great spring.
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