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USDA revamps plant hardiness map By: Agriculture.com Staff 01/26/2012 @ 9:03am

For the first time since 1990, the USDA has revamped the zones in its Plant Hardiness Map. While this is big news for America’s 80 million gardeners, it’s also ...

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Soy rally on smaller SA forecast By: Dow Jones Newswires 02/03/2012 @ 5:17pm

U.S. grain and soybean futures ended mixed Friday, with soybeans rallying on smaller South American crop ...

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Friday farm markets to jump By: Mike McGinnis 02/03/2012 @ 8:35am

The CME Group corn, soybean and wheat markets will try to capitalize on continued world crop-weather concerns to trade ...

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Is your fall-applied nitrogen escaping? By: Jeff Caldwell 02/02/2012 @ 10:30am

Last fall's fieldwork went smoothly for a lot of Corn Belt farmers. Harvest went quickly, then good field conditions and weather allowed plenty of opportunity to get this year's fertilizer applied ...

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A turn lower seen for grain trade By: Mike McGinnis 02/02/2012 @ 8:27am

A reversal is expected in today's CME Group corn, soybean and wheat markets vs. yesterday's higher trading. The Early Calls for the commodities on Thursday, February 2, 2012, are lower. Corn is ...

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Futures rally for 2nd straight day By: Dow Jones Newswires 02/01/2012 @ 4:42pm

U.S grain and soybean futures ended higher Wednesday, rallying for the second straight day, with a weaker dollar and global crop concerns fueling advances.Soybean futures continued to recover from declines ...

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Arctic blast pounding Russian wheat By: Jeff Caldwell 02/01/2012 @ 12:08pm

The major factor driving the wheat trade higher this week is half the world away from the wheat pits in Chicago and Kansas City.Arctic air is slamming much of the wheat-growing areas of Ukraine and central ...

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Crunching the crop rotation numbers By: Jeff Caldwell 02/01/2012 @ 11:08am

The majority of farmers seem content to stick to their normal crop rotations this year. But, a sizable chunk -- 27% -- say they'll be planting more corn this spring.Those results from a recent ...

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