Tag: wheat
Small grains field day offers opportunities for farmers
The first small grains field day, held June 14, in Wooster, offered a closer look at small grains for forages, new cash crop opportunities and disease prevention
Too late for herbicide: Farmers need to control toxic cressleaf groundsel
It looks like a field of mustard, but it's not. And livestock producers pay attention: Cressleaf grounsel is toxic to cattle, horses, goats and sheep -- and humans.
Grain market higher and experts struggling to explain
Grain markets are moving higher on the Chicago Board of Trade this Tuesday morning, April 19, and analysts are struggling to explain why this recent rally continues.
Mixed news and higher grain prices
All across the Midwest, the phones are finally ringing in grain elevator offices: Sell!
UK farmer sets world wheat record
Wheat farmer in Northumberland, U.K., sets new world wheat record: 249.6 bushels per acre.
Use liquid manure to fertilize wheat
Liquid livestock manure can be a great option as a spring topdress fertilizer for wheat fields if applied during a select window of time in March and April
The ag cycle is stuck on repeat
The message from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Outlook Forum in late February was pretty clear: In 2016, we will again grow more farm goods -- and, in some cases, far more -- than the U.S. and world markets can profitably use.
Long weekend helps grain prices
The end of winter is in sight, and the end to the winter price doldrums is not. We need news to spark this market, says our fearless grain commentator Marlin Clark.
Numbers added to an emotional market
I have long held our modest hope that we would see some rebound in prices after the holidays.
A winter of grain market discontent
The grain market axiom is that the cure for low prices is low prices. The problem with cheap corn this year is that we have been surprised how cheap it could get — 3.50 corn futures were supposed to be a thing of the past.
