Business of buying 

Checkoff survives. Certified seed. How you buy tractors. Record ag banking profits. Mixed profit report. No super weeds.

Clone-grown 

By: Karen McMahon

Cloning promises to upgrade animal genetics.

Livestock 

Managing manure. New feed mixer.

Soy-based odor reducer 

The first product from Agriliance LLC uses a soybean by-product as a main ingredient to help reduce hog manure odors. Called Barrier, the new odor mitigation...

Livestock 

agclick New editions of CornCam and SoybeanCam are scheduled to open this spring. But, also this year, the fun begins at www.DairyCam.com , a new Web...

Manure revisited 

By: Gil Gullickson

When hog prices crashed in December 1998, cynical humorists joked that the manure was worth more than the hogs. That grim humor still applies today. Fortunately,...

Metering manure 

By: Joan Olson

With commercial fertilizer in short supply and prices approaching historic highs, livestock manure is more valuable than ever. But exploiting manure's...

New seed for feed 

By: FIN staff

After slipping onto the market in 1993, high-oil corn hybrids have steadily spread over more and more acres, to cover an estimated one million acres this...

Business of buying 

No to pork checkoff, yes to beef checkoff Three announcements, all within a week of each other, left the nation's livestock producers shaking their heads....

Business of buying 

By: FIN Staff

AGCO buys Ag-Chem AGCO Corporation announced plans to purchase Ag-Chem Equipment Company, Minnetonka, MN, a manufacturer and distributor of ag machinery...