Eight-gene stack 

Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences recently announced plans to cross-license genes and offer an eight-gene-stack hybrid for corn...

Trait Rates (Why Prices are up) 

By: BY MARK MOORE

Producers have ever-increasing options when it comes to buying seed in 2008, but those new traits are expected to come with a higher price tag. Corn and...

Stacked Lineup 

By: BY MARK MOORE

Corn is expected to remain the commodity of choice for many producers, buoyed by continued strong demand. Seed companies are responding by increasing the availability ...

Nitrogen-fertilizer enhancer 

Specialty Fertilizer Products (SFP) says its new additive for dry and liquid nitrogen fertilizer, called NutriSphere-N, increases nitrogen-use efficiency through the entire growing season...

Corn Continues To Shift Placements  

By: Courtesy of BEEF Stocker Trends newsletter

It's no surprise that more cattle are going on feed in the Midwest and Corn Belt because of feed cost and access. What may surprise some is...

FIELD STATION 

PRODUCERS CAN monitor irrigation and soil moisture from anywhere in the world with Automata's new Mini-Sat field station. Mini-Sat has an unlimited networking...

USDA: largest corn planting in 63 years 

By: Elton Robinson, Delta Farm Press

U.S. corn producers are expected to plant 90.5 million acres of corn this spring -- the highest acreage planted in 63 years. According to USDA's March 30 Prospective Plantings report...

A Perfect Drought 

By: From the Editor, Karen McMahon

Commodity Classic, held every winter, has become an important barometer of what Midwestern corn and soybean growers are thinking....

Triple Stack Approved 

Syngenta announces it received EPA registration for a triple-stack corn hybrid. The Agrisure CB/LL/RW corn trait stack should be available...

Soaring Food Prices? 

By: From Team FIN Scott McPheeters

I am a farmer who grows food corn and feed corn in Nebraska. I also have an interest in a farmer-owned fuel-ethanol plant in central Nebraska...