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Corn, wheat close sharply higher By: Mike McGinnis 05/16/2012 @ 10:38am DES MOINES, Iowa (Agricultue.com)--Fresh corn and wheat sales helped the CME Group corn, soybean ...
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Update: Renting land & losing money By: Jeff Caldwell 05/11/2012 @ 12:01pm If a farm next to yours -- a piece of ground that you've been yearning to get your hands on -- ...
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Corn Belt soil erosion worries continue By: Jeff Caldwell 05/16/2012 @ 4:12pm There's a lot of soil erosion so far this spring around Clarke McGrath. The Iowa State ...
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Corn takes King throne from soybeans in BrazilThat's what Céleres consultancy is saying here in Brazil. The prediction is that the 2011/12 crop of corn will be of 65 million tons, while ...

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Get your sprayer in shape By: Jeff Caldwell 05/11/2012 @ 10:25am

What you're spraying to control pests in your crops may not be as important as how you're putting it down. That makes good sprayer calibration more important than ...
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Are your soils compacted? By: Jeff Caldwell 01/19/2012 @ 11:13am

If your soils are frozen and hard as a rock, this may not be in the cards for you just yet. But, if your temperatures are around the freezing mark, one way to stave off ...
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Rounding up the 2012 cattle ... By: Jeff Caldwell 02/03/2012 @ 10:51am

The 800-pound gorilla in the cattle barn is this one: Is there a place for the cattle industry in the new 21st-century energy-based agriculture? Is the slide in cattle ...
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