Recent Grains Articles

Profits tied to grain storage management

Jan 5, 2009 10:45 AM, By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky

Lower grain prices this past fall caused many of the state's producers to store their crops. ...

Kentucky schedules winter wheat meeting

Dec 31, 2008 8:04 AM, By Carol Spence
University of Kentucky

After a boom year for grain prices and a surge in nitrogen costs, farmers might be wondering what 2009 has in store for them....

Corn yield contest winners double national average

Dec 30, 2008 10:02 AM

Corn growers shattered yield records in a year beset with weather problems, using innovative production techniques and improved seed varieties to achieve top numbers in the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) 2008 National Corn Yield Contest....

Palmer amaranth: The perfect weed

Dec 29, 2008 10:04 AM, By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

If you want to design the perfect weed, start with a blueprint of Palmer amaranth pigweed....

Long-term grain outlook is good

Dec 29, 2008 9:58 AM, By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

If current trends continue corn and soybean acreage will probably remain fairly stable, cotton acreage will trend down slightly and peanuts and tobacco will be up and down only slightly, says Rich Pottorff, an economist working with Doan Advisory Services....

Fertilizer prices creating anxiety

Dec 29, 2008 9:51 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The old saying that what goes up must come down is proving to be true once again in agriculture. ...

Economist sees return to market fundamentals

Dec 29, 2008 9:39 AM

For agricultural economist Carl Anderson, the big question over the last year has been whether pogo-ing crop prices indicated a structural shift or just short-term adjustments....

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News from the Farm Bill

House votes to suspend base acre provision

Sep 26, 2008 9:14 AM

The House passed legislation supported by both parties that would suspend for the 2008 and 2009 crop years a farm bill provision that required producers to have a minimum of 10-base acres to receive program benefits. ...

Senators, ag secretary spar over ACRE provisions

Sep 16, 2008 10:21 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

A group of farm-state senators led by Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin is asking Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer to stop trying to re-write the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 through the regulations implementing the new farm bill....

ACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmers

Jul 15, 2008 9:34 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ...

Farm bill, flooding: Economist Daryll Ray

Jul 9, 2008 9:57 AM, By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

After the first round of producer organization-sponsored farm bill meetings, Southeast farmers still have plenty of questions about the new legislation....

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