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55 IL counties designated natural disaster areas

The USDA has designated 55 Illinois counties natural disaster areas. In making the announcement, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said the action will provide help to farmers who have suffered significant production losses. In addition to the 55 primary counties... Read More...

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Farm Progress Show attendance, exhibits up

It’s day three of the 2010 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa and the attendance, so far, is ahead of 2008, the last time the show was held here. Farm Progress Events Manager Matt Jungmann says the rain here and there has not dampened the crowd. Jungmann... Read More...

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Managing For Profit

Taking into account an exceptional year Taking into account an exceptional year

As fall harvest approaches it is also time to assess your corn hybrids with an eye towards what you will choose to plant next year. But this has been an exceptional year; heat and moisture have pushed crops well ahead of average…so how do you take that into account when assessing your hybrids? That is the same dilemma which faces those developing... [Read more of this review]

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Rural Issues

Continued thinning of spot market concerns Vilsack Continued thinning of spot market concerns Vilsack

The continued thinning of cash livestock markets is of big concern to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. At the recent ag competition workshop in Colorado, Vilsack cited statistics showing that the spot market for hogs has declined from 62 percent in 1994 to less than four percent today.  And he says trends indicate the cash cattle market is headed... [Read more of this review]

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Cyndi Young's Two Cents

Being real Being real

There are few aspects of my professional life that I love more than speaking to groups of farmers and farm families. Every individual has a life story to tell and I have been honored to be able to sit across the table from so many of you and learn about your farms, your families, and your communities. You can be a prideful lot, but humility is your... [Read more of this review]

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Innovations

Update on Monsanto’s Water Utilization Learning Center Update on Monsanto’s Water Utilization Learning Center

Monsanto’s Water Utilization Learning Center near Gothenburg, Nebaska recently celebrated its first full year of operation. Learning Center manager Chandler Mazour gives us an update on activities at the center, which offers farmers and other stakeholders a first-hand opportunity to view water-use efficiency technologies such as drought-tolerant crops... [Read more]

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Inside D.C.

Ag reporting 101 Ag reporting 101

I’m wondering if there’s any money to be made offering remedial journalism classes for big city reporters, kind of a “Covering Food and Agriculture 101?” And I’m not talking “lifestyle,” “restaurant evaluation” or just plain old recipe coverage, I’m talking how farming operates in the real... [Read more]

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