Winter Wheat Condition?

By Larry Stalcup, eWheat editor

After a year of drought, southern plains growers are eager to get their 2012 crop off and running into the winter. But while Oklahoma’s wheat is rated 42% good to excellent, only 21% of the Texas crop is in that category, according to yesterday’s USDA crop progress report.

Those conditions still had many concerned about whether there would be potential grazing opportunities for stocker cattle or even cowherds strapped for grass in the heavy drought areas.

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Ryegrass Control Important

Italian Ryegrass can stall winter wheat growth if efforts aren’t made to control it, according to Kansas State University Extension agronomists. Field tests conducted in southeast Kansas to evaluate fall and spring postemergence herbicide treatments for Italian ryegrass control in hard red winter wheat showed that solid treatment programs can increase wheat yields by as much as 40%.

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Duplicate Pesticide Permitting Goes Into Effect

An Oct. 31 deadline for action to prevent duplicative and ambiguous pesticide permitting regulations came and went without Senate action on a legislative proposal to clarify the requirements. The new regulations emanate from a 2009 ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court, which said for the first time that pesticide applications require a Clean Water Act permit in addition to compliance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).

NAWG and coalition partners continue to urge quick passage of H.R. 872 or another legislative solution to delay or eliminate the new requirements, particularly in light of the lack of legal clarity around in what situations the new permits are needed. The NAWG Board reiterated its support of such an approach at its meeting on Wednesday.

Source: NAWG

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Signed FTAs Benefit Sellers And Buyers

Leaders of the U.S. wheat industry are applauding President Barack Obama’s signing of three long-pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

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Can GPS And Broadband Co-exist?

By David Bennett, Farm Press

With precision agriculture now firmly entrenched on the farm, it is inevitable that anything interfering with the necessary GPS ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS) signals won’t be accepted with a smile. At the same time, growers know that rural America would massively benefit from reliable broadband coverage. You might think those two things – GPS and broadband – would go hand-in-hand rather than be competing interests.

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Farm Bill Proposals: Compare The Pluses, Minuses

In another four weeks when the Select Congressional Deficit Reduction Committee makes its report, there may not be any money left to provide a safety net in the farm bill. However, many farm organizations and other interested groups have submitted a bushel of candidates for a farm program. Since some of the plans were submitted, their sponsors have shifted to other concepts, so it is fair to say the structure of a farm safety net is a moving target. And the House and Senate Agriculture committees have held numerous hearings to consider what should and should not be included in the 2012 Farm Bill. To no one’s surprise agriculture policy is quite dynamic.

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Rising Price of Anhydrous Ammonia Is Natural

As the price of natural gas goes up, the cost of producing anhydrous ammonia rises as well, according to a recent report from the University of Illinois. “The two are related because natural gas is a major input into the production of anhydrous ammonia,” says Agricultural Economist Gary Schnitkey. “It is the major variable cost item in the production of anhydrous ammonia.”

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Test Your Grain Marketing Knowledge

"Back to School with Ed Usset" is a popular feature of Corn & Soybean Digest, in cooperation with Ed Usset and the Center for Farm Financial Management, University of Minnesota. Usset’s challenging and authentic quiz questions are designed to test your grain marketing knowledge and will help you learn while having fun! Ed Usset is the author of "Grain Marketing is Simple, It’s Just Not Easy," and is a grain marketing specialist at the University of Minnesota.

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Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and friends and thanks for taking the time to view eWheat. Look for another issue of eWheat in your email box on Dec. 6. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions on the content of this newsletter, please e-mail your editor Larry Stalcup at beef2lar@suddenlink.net. Also, thanks to our exclusive sponsor, DuPont, for its support of this newsletter.