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Soybeans are on target to set a production record. According to a USDA crop production report released today, soybean production is forecasted at 3.38 billion bushels, up 0.5 percent from the previous record set in 2009. Growers are expected to … Continue reading →

Farmers are ahead of the average five-year harvest, according to a report by USDA. Based on the report, 96 percent of the corn harvest is complete, compared to an average 73 percent for this time of year. Seventy-one percent of … Continue reading →

Additional support will be given to producers to help repair farmland damaged by natural disasters. More than $8 million in additional Emergency Conservation Program funds will be provided to farmers in ranchers in 12 states to repair existing conservation structures … Continue reading →

Grain bin entrapment is at a record high this year, according to The Purdue University Agricultural Safety and Health Program. Based on a report, 46 entrapments have been recorded this year, the highest since 1978. Twenty-five of the 46 incidents … Continue reading →

USDA began issuing nearly $420 million in payments today to producers enrolled in the Average Crop Revenue Election program. Producers of wheat, corn, barley, dry peas, grain sorghum, lentils, oats, peanuts, soybeans and upland cotton will receive ACRE payments for … Continue reading →

A nuisance weed may have the potential of becoming a new source of biofuel. USDA scientists have found that oil produced from the seeds of field pennycress can create biodiesel and glycerol when used with methanol and pretreated with acid. … Continue reading →

Voting opens tomorrow for the 2010 Farm Service Agency County Committee elections and producers are being encouraged to get involved by turning in their ballots before the December deadline.

Scientists at USDA have developed ways to ward off ticks that can kill cattle. Generally brought over to the United States by deer along the Texas-Mexico border, the ticks transmit bovine babesiosis, which is known as Texas cattle fever. By … Continue reading →

The corn and soybean harvest is coming to a close. Nearly 91 percent of corn and 96 percent of soybeans have been harvested, according to a crop report by the USDA. Only 24 percent of corn and 50 percent of … Continue reading →