WOOSTER, Ohio — Ohio soybean growers, their sights set on increasing soybean acreage this year, may face crop production challenges due to less than optimum seed quality.
Anne Dorrance, an Ohio State University plant pathologist with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, said soybean seed production fields were harvested last year when the seed was […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The pork industry must take responsibility for its own problems, said a Purdue University Extension marketing specialist.
“That means aggressive liquidation, most likely based on financial attrition,” said Chris Hurt. “That is not a pretty solution, but it is the market solution and markets can be brutal.
“As those producers go down […]

MOSCOW — Deere & Company announced plans April 2 to significantly expand its presence in Russia.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The nation’s farmers say they are shifting a large amount of acreage back to soybeans in 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Prospective Plantings report after a year of heavy corn acreage, said a Purdue University expert.
Producers intend to plant 74.8 million acres to soybeans, an increase of 11.1 […]

Average market price projections are above levels that would trigger the USDA’s counter-cyclical payments.

WASHINGTON — The first 5.5 months into the 2007-2008 marketing year have shown noteworthy increases in the exports of U.S. corn and sorghum in markets where the U.S. Grains Council has been active in demand building and trade development programs.

Corn imports are up in Asia and the Middle East with 5.7 million tons (2.24 million […]