Farmer power

By: Willard Cochrane

"A strong trade association of family farmers would give them real market power and real political power. By organizing, family farmers could once again...

buying

By: FARM INDUSTRY NEWS STAFF

Another auction option TradeYard claims that it is the largest single source of used heavy equipment online and available for purchase. More than 100,000...

buying

By: FARM INDUSTRY NEWS STAFF

Forbes recently highlighted the top 200 most promising and competitive business-to-business Web sites in the U.S. They selected these ag sites:agriculture.com...

Consumers need to know

By: William Spain

"There is more and more a limited personal experience with agriculture and food, which gets in the way of understanding a lot of the things we're doing...

Losing an important commodity

By: Watts Wacker

"We're really only 10 years away from 40% of [the] world having uninhabitable drinking water."...

New contract aids grain prices

By: Karen McMahon

Growers use Cargill expertise to reduce grain-selling risks.One-fourth of the corn rolling out of Mark Wankel's combine this fall will earn the Illinois...

how to reach us

By: FARM INDUSTRY NEWS

You can reach us at: 1) fin@intertec.com;2) Farm Industry News, Edit. Dept., 7900 International Dr., Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55425; and3) www.farmindustrynews.com...

Support your neighbor

By: FARM INDUSTRY NEWS

I read your article on Internet security ("How secure is online buying?" April issue, page 8).Equally disturbing is the fact that farmers are buying on...

Business of buying

By: FIN Staff

e buying Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives, Cargill and Dupont have joined as equal investors in a new venture called Rooster.com, aimed at becoming an...

Business of buying

By: Kurt Lawton

Are Roundup Ready seed prices fair in the U.S.? Many farmers seem to be echoing this question in light of a recent General Accounting Office report that...