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Traders 'tense,' prices mixed By: Dow Jones Newswires 02/08/2012 @ 5:04pm U.S. grain and soybean futures ended mixed Wednesday, with prices trading on both sides of ...
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Land rent auctions 'stunning' By: Jeff Caldwell 02/07/2012 @ 10:59am Murray Wise spent most of his day Monday trying to figure out how he'd handle it."I was ...
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Planting corn into bone-dry soils? By: Jeff Caldwell 02/07/2012 @ 4:42pm After a relatively dry fall and the same conditions through much of winter so far, there's ...
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weekly ethanol production numbersthe production number s are slowly coming down from the lofty number of last dec before the tax credits expired.  We are currently at the ...

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Knock down herbicide ... By: Jeff Caldwell 02/08/2012 @ 2:39pm

Glyphosate resistance isn't the end of the world.It certainly doesn't mean the popular herbicide is no longer any good, according to experts who took part in the ...
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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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