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Soybean, corn prices seen rising Friday By: Mike McGinnis 05/17/2013 @ 7:25am

The CME Group's corn, soybean, and wheat markets are expected to start higher Friday. The early calls for the commodities on Friday, May 17, 2013, are ...

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Corn, soybeans to inch higher Thursday By: Mike McGinnis 05/16/2013 @ 6:53am

The CME Group's corn, soybean, and wheat markets are expected to start higher Thursday. The early calls for the ...

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Rain delays & weed control challenges By: Jeff Caldwell 05/15/2013 @ 7:42am

Much of the Corn Belt has seen a return to better corn-planting weather over the last few days, with temperatures not ...

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Corn, soybeans to drop Wednesday By: Mike McGinnis 05/15/2013 @ 7:15am

The CME Group's corn, soybean, and wheat markets are expected to start lower Wednesday. The early calls for the commodities on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, are lower. Corn is seen opening 1 to 2 cents ...

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Is your early-planted corn at risk? By: Jeff Caldwell 05/14/2013 @ 2:39pm

The sun's out, the temperature's rising -- perfect weather for planting corn. But, you may have already planted some of your acres when conditions were less-than-ideal. Even if you did, and ...

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Topsoil lost to rainfall costs farmers money By: Linda Geist 05/14/2013 @ 1:06pm

As rainfall increases, the amount of topsoil decreases. So does the amount of grain the land can produce.April’s pounding rains likely took tons of topsoil from some Missouri farmlands, according to ...

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Don't let ticks get you down this spring By: Jeff Caldwell 05/14/2013 @ 12:27pm

The weather's finally seasonably warm and sunny. So, it's go-time if you've got crops to plant.The last thing you need now that seasonable weather has finally arrived is to be slowed down by ...

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Topsoils still damp in western Corn Belt By: Freese-Notis Weather, Inc. 05/14/2013 @ 8:37am

Eyewitness reports indicate some field activity began in central Iowa yesterday afternoon as the topsoils continue to slowly dry in the central and eastern sections of Iowa as well as western and central ...

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