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Grains dive on improved forecast By: Dow Jones Newswires 05/22/2012 @ 3:21pm U.S. corn and soybean futures tumbled Tuesday on improved weather outlooks for the crops.Near-term ...
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Drought fears heat up as planting wraps By: Jeff Caldwell 05/21/2012 @ 3:23pm Almost all the nation's corn is planted and just over 3/4 of the soybeans are in the ground ...
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Don't count on a hog market rally ... By: Jeff Caldwell 05/22/2012 @ 8:45am There were a lot of expectations for a resurgence in the hog market this spring. It's happened ...
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Get your sprayer in shape By: Jeff Caldwell 05/11/2012 @ 9:25am

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 @ 10:13am

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 @ 9:51am

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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