The harvest is running about a month behind schedule just about everywhere, including Missouri, which only had half the corn crop and a third of the soybean crop harvested as of November 1. BASF sent us out on the road this week to talk to some farmers about the late harvest and we started at the top, with World Soybean …
Minnesota Farmers Feed Hungry Families
Farmers in Minnesota are helping to feed the hungry, even as they face their own tough times. Minnesota Farmers Helping Families, a coalition of state agriculture commodity groups, recently donated more than $115,000 in pork and dairy products to Hunger Solutions Minnesota. Governor Tim Pawlenty was joined at the state capitol by representatives from the Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion …
Harvest Reporting
There is still a lot of water in fields around the Midwest. Here’s one I walked past on the Katy Trail this afternoon. However, harvesting is happening. Finally we’re getting a break in the weather. This week Cindy and I will be out and about conducting some Headline Harvest Reports for BASF. We’ll post them when we can. She’ll be …
Soybean Harvesting
Soybeans are being harvested in the Missouri River bottom. This was the scene I passed while working out this afternoon. It’s that time of year. A little further down the road however, there was a real contrast of soybeans quite ready for harvest next to fields that are in full leafy green. Kind of shows how mixed the season has …
Syngenta Soybeans Raising the Bar
Syngenta Seeds is launching the new NK-1 Class Soybeans for the 2010 planting season. Dan Dyer, Syngenta Seeds Soybean Product Development Lead, told ag media during the grand opening of the company’s new headquarters that varieties like this prove how Syngenta Seeds is raising the bar. “Over the last couple of years, we’ve noticed in our own data and what …
Crops Keep Growing
Edging closer to the number one record crop, USDA boosted the corn production forecast by two percent in the report out this morning – to an even 13 billion bushels. Still expected to be just the second largest on record, it is a mere 100 million bushels short of the 2007 record crop. USDA is now saying yields are expected …
BASF Hosts Farm Futures Talk at Farm Progress
AgWired coverage of the 2009 Farm Progress Show is sponsored by: and BASF at Farm Progress Show Photo Album New dynamics are shaping the future for agriculture and farmers need to be watching the markets more closely than ever before to keep ahead of the game, according to market analyst Arlen Suderman with Farm Futures. “There’s a lot of money …
USB’s See For Yourself Tour A Huge Success
Last year, the United Soybean Board wanted soybean farmers to learn more about how their checkoff program was helping their bottom line. Thus, the See For Yourself program was created. After a successful first year, the program was continued, and this year, 10 soybean farmers representing eight states, went on a trip to see how the soybeans they grow are …
Biodiesel Powered Sleds
What do you think of when you hear that there’s a sled running on biodiesel? Probably not thinking tractor pull sled are you? Unless you’re a tractor pull fan. Well those big machines that the tractors and trucks pull are also diesel powered and in Jefferson City, MO there’s a company that manufactures them and runs them on biodiesel. The …
Pulling With Biodiesel
This soybean grower from Missouri doesn’t plant corn with the machine he’s standing next too. No way. But he does power it with a biodiesel blend and compete in tractor pulls across the United States. He’s Dennis Shramek and one of the competitors in this weekend’s NTPA Midwest Extreme Truck and Tractor Pull. Thank you to the United Soybean Board …