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Farm country drought worries rising By: Jeff Caldwell 05/18/2012 @ 3:18pm It's drying up in the Plains and Corn Belt, and the trend -- that could be just getting ...
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Wheat roars to 8-month high By: Dow Jones Newswires 05/18/2012 @ 4:16pm U.S. wheat futures surged to an eight-month high, capping a dramatic rise this week fueled by ...
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'Experts' leave farmers ... By: Roy Smith 05/18/2012 @ 4:24pm Again last week the grain markets were pummeled by outside financial markets that have almost ...
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Replanting early planted cornin central Indiana. Talked to a good farmer friend a little SE of Indy this Morning and he was talking about all the disease problems in ...

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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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