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03/29/06
Crop News Weekly
As April rolls around each year I generally
start worrying about things I haven't worried about for some time;
things like income tax filing, insects, tornados, the soon-to-come
hurricane season. For this year, add to that mad cow disease, possible
rust outbreaks, farm bill worries, more threats of terrorism. Come to
think of it, it sounds just like last year - and probably next. Woe are
we!
We've got another news-packed issue this week, starting with the growing
trend of early soybean plantings. Is your seed in the ground yet? Also
this week, what can we say about the economy - that it doesn't feel
right? That's what Dave Kohl keeps hearing. Speaking of filing dates,
Mike Johanns reminds producers and landowners that a Conservation
Reserve Program (CRP) general sign-up which began Monday will continue
through April 14. Don't be late. Elsewhere this week, incorporating
cover crops into a production rotation may have conservational benefits,
but their short and long-term agronomic value is still being evaluated
according to Ohio State University. Also this issue: USDA confirms
Alabama mad cow, Budget Committee passes resolution with no cuts in ag,
and the changing grain market.
You'll find these stories and a lot more in this issue of Crop News
Weekly. Happy reading.
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Early
soybean planting growing trend
03/27/06
A survey of Indiana soybean producers by Purdue
University found that growers are planting much earlier than they did a
decade ago. Producers said they've moved up their planting operations in
order to increase the odds of harvesting bigger crops and avoid planting
delays caused by late spring rain, says Shawn Conley, Purdue Extension
soybean specialist and survey coordinator. More than 1,300 farmers
across the state participated in the Purdue survey, conducted this past
fall. Complete survey results will be released in a report due out this
spring. - The Corn & Soybean Digest
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DAVE
KOHL: The economy does not feel right
03/27/06
The Road Warrior writes: "As I travel the roads
of America, many people are saying the economy just does not feel right.
Some will indicate it's like the 1970s; others fear China is like Japan
in the 1980s, ready to take leadership in the global economy. Well,
where are we? International economies are starting to see their domestic
growth catch up to the U.S. Since 2001 and the recession "lite," the
U.S.'s recovery has been fueled by borrowing on the international
markets and the strong housing markets that propelled equity
borrowing..." - Dave Kohl, The Corn & Soybean Digest
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Conservation
Reserve Program Sign-up March 27-April 14
03/27/06
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns reminds
agricultural producers and landowners that a Conservation Reserve
Program (CRP) general sign-up will begin on Monday, March 27 and
continue through April 14, 2006. CRP participants voluntarily enroll
highly erodible and other fragile cropland in CRP through long-term
contracts of 10-15 years. Participants plant grasses, trees and other
vegetation on the enrolled land. In exchange, participants receive
annual rental payments and a payment of up to 50 percent of the cost of
establishing conservation covers. - The Corn & Soybean Digest
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Nitrogen
concerns no reason to run for cover crops
03/27/06
Incorporating cover crops into a production rotation
may have conservational benefits, but their short- and long-term
agronomic value is still being evaluated. With new research, Ohio State
University soil fertility specialists are hoping to provide more
concrete answers. Robert Mullen, an Ohio State soil scientist with the
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, and his colleagues
plan to seed red clover into this season's wheat crop to determine
whether the cover crop provides a sufficient nitrogen (N) benefit for
the incoming corn crop. - The Corn & Soybean Digest
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News from the Top of the
Hill
03/24/06
National Hog Farmer
USDA Technical Team to Japan - Secretary of
Agriculture Mike Johanns announced that a USDA technical team headed by
Chuck Lambert, Acting Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory
Programs, will meet with Japanese officials next Monday, March 27th, to
answer questions and press for the reopening of the Japanese market to
U.S. beef. Johanns said, "The United States is eager to provide any
additional clarification Japan may request so we can resume beef exports
to Japan as quickly as possible. I believe our report is thorough and
actions address the unique circumstances surrounding this ineligible
shipment." Accompanying Lambert will be representatives of USDA's Food
Safety & Inspection Service, Agriculture Marketing Service, Foreign
Agricultural Service, and the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service.
Creekstone to Sue USDA Over BSE Testing - Creekstone Farms of
Arkansas City, Kansas announced that it will sue USDA over the policy of
testing cattle for BSE. For the past two years, Creekstone has asked
USDA to allow it to voluntarily test cattle it slaughters for BSE. USDA
has rejected Creekstone's request. Creekstone says that "it is vital to
U.S. trade with Japan and other countries and the economic future of
America's beef exporters to have the freedom to test for BSE, which will
provide an added layer of confidence for U.S. beef customers
worldwide."
Disaster Assistance - Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) has introduced
disaster aid legislation. The bill would provide emergency funding to
farmers and ranchers who have suffered weather-related crop production
shortfalls, quality losses, damage to livestock feed supplies and
payments for the loss of livestock. The bill also helps farmers overcome
losses as a result of energy prices. Senator Conrad said, "This bill
wouldn't make any farmer or rancher whole, but it goes a long way to
making sure that producers who have seen losses at the hands of Mother
Nature have a chance to stay in business." Senators cosponsoring the
bill include: Senators Byron Dorgan (D-NC), Max Baucus (D-MT), Kit Bond
(R-MO), Conrad Burns (R-MT), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Norm Coleman (R-MN),
Mark Dayton (D-MN), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Mel
Martinez (R-FL), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ken Salazar
(D-CO), Jim Talent (R-MO), and John Thune (R-SD). Estimated cost of the
legislation is $3.566 billion.
Senate Budget - No AG Cuts - Last week the Senate approved a $2.8
trillion budget for fiscal year 2007 by a vote of 51-49. The budget does
not require any cuts in farm programs as proposed by President Bush. The
House plans to consider its budget resolution when Congress returns next
week. Congress also raised the debt ceiling to nearly $9 trillion. The
national debt has increased by 46 percent over the past five years. This
means that the national debt has increased in the past five years what
it took the United States to accumulate as entire debt from when George
Washington was President through 1988.
USDA, Interior and HHS Announce Avian Influenza Program - USDA,
the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Health and Human
Resources (HHS) announced an enhanced national framework for early
detection of avian influenza in wild migratory birds in the United
States. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns said, "The Department of
Agriculture is working on many fronts, with many partners to further
strengthen our ability to detect and respond to highly pathogenic
strains of avian influenza. By intensifying our monitoring of migratory
bird populations, we increase the likelihood of early detection, which
is key to controlling the spread of the virus, particularly in our
domestic poultry." The interagency plan calls for early detection of
avian influenza in wild migratory birds by:
Investigation of disease-outbreak events in wild birds.
Expanded monitoring of live wild birds.
Monitoring of hunter-killed birds.
Use of sentinel animals, such as backyard poultry flocks.
Environmental sampling of water and bird feces.
USDA plans to collect between 75,000 to 100,000 samples from live and
dead wild birds and 50,000 samples of water or feces from high-risk
waterfowl habitats across the U.S.
NPPC Legislative Conference - The National Pork Producers
Council's Spring Legislative Conference will be held April 5-6 in
Washington, D.C. Pork producers from throughout the United States will
be meeting with Congressional members and staff on key issues affecting
the pork industry. - Scott Shearer
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USDA
confirms mad cow disease finding in Alabama
03/24/06
The fact that the Alabama cow veterinarians detected,
and later confirmed, as carrying BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy),
or more commonly referred to as mad cow disease, was likely at least 10
years old may be the best news out of the latest discovery of the
disease. On March 13, officials announced that test results from the
USDA laboratory in Iowa confirmed the second such finding in cattle in
America since the department began vigorous screening for BSE-infected
beef several years ago. - Andrew Bell, Farm Press Editorial
Staff
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Budget
Committee passes resolution with no cuts in ag
03/23/06
In a move that is becoming increasingly common in
Washington, the Senate Budget Committee largely ignored the Bush
administration's spending reduction proposals for agriculture when it
approved the committee's fiscal 2007 budget resolution. President Bush
had called for a 5 percent across-the-board reduction in commodity
program payments for savings of $1 billion in fiscal 2007 and $7.7
billion over the next 10 years. The president's budget plan also
included reducing payments limits to $250,000 per farmer. - Forrest
Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
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Psychology,
more often than facts, moves markets
03/23/06
Ethanol and biodiesel demand and commodity/index funds
continue to change grain market dynamics, but one thing remains constant
-- the emotion of the market. "It's not facts that are important to
the markets," says grain analyst Richard Brock. "It's people's opinions
of the facts that move the markets. And that's why the markets are so
emotional. If you can understand people, you can have a better
understanding of how the markets work." So what does your inner
psychologist say about your marketing plan? - Elton Robinson, Farm
Press Editorial Staff
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Solving
energy problems will take a 'team effort'
03/23/06
Collaboration will remain a crucial part of the path
to independent energy usage and lowered fuel costs, says an official
with the USDA. Ross Davidson, senior policy advisor on energy policy to
USDA Secretary Mike Johanns, said there are a lot of separate interests
groups eager to jumpstart new domestic energy markets. But he cautioned,
"It's got to be a team effort. We must work together. - Andrew Bell,
Farm Press Editorial Staff
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ASA
leaders take soybean issues to Capitol Hill
03/22/06
American Soybean Association (ASA) leaders have again
taken soybean grower concerns to Congressional offices in Washington,
D.C. Priority issues for soybean growers include proposed five percent
cuts to farm programs, research programs for soybean rust and
aquaculture as well as an extension to the biodiesel tax incentive and
funding for the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) Bioenergy Program at
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). - Farm Press Editorial
Staff
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Sign Up for
MarketMaxx
03/29/06
Sign up and play The Corn And Soybean Digest's fantasy
grain game called MarketMaxx. It's easy, fun and hopefully you'll learn
a little more about how to market the corn and beans your raise. It's
easy to sign-up. Just log on to http://www.marketmaxx.net and
register at the top left and begin trading your fictitious 100,000 bu.
of corn and 50,000 bu. of soybeans. If you're a winner at the end of the
game on October 31 you could take home the grand prize of a year's use
of a Massey Ferguson tractor or combine. Or, win additional prizes such
as a computer system from Syngenta Crop Protection, customized rugged
mobile computers from Grayhill Custom Mobile Solutions or a high-speed
satellite Internet service from Agristar Global Networks. - The Corn
& Soybean Digest
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Johanns
announces actions to reduce wildfire effects
03/22/06
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today announced
that agricultural producers in six Oklahoma counties and 27 north Texas
counties currently being impacted by wildfires can remove dry grass on
and move cattle to Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acreage, without
facing charges for grazing value or the baled value of removed forage.
"The wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma have burned more than one million
acres, devastating many rural communities, as well as our farmers and
ranchers," said Johanns. "Today I'm announcing that USDA will assist
producers who need to immediately relocate livestock from burned
pastures by opening CRP acreage to them. This action will also have an
added benefit of helping to lower the risks of additional wildfires."
- Farm Press Editorial Staff
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Administration
hedging its bets on Doha?
03/22/06
Is the Bush administration preparing to throw in the
towel on the Doha Development Round? Twice in recent weeks,
administration officials have gone out of their way to talk about their
successes with regional and bilateral trade agreements while giving
short shrift to the Doha Round. At the USDA Outlook Forum in Arlington,
Va., Agriculture Undersecretary J.B. Penn spent more time talking about
the benefits of the latest free trade agreements and the prospects for
FTAs with Korea than on Doha. - Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial
Staff
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Case
IH focusing on fuel efficiency in new tractors
03/22/06
Higher diesel fuel prices have certainly been the talk
of farm country in recent months. In the wake of back-to-back hurricanes
in the Gulf Coast oil fields last year, prices spiked above $3 a gallon
and remained there for a while. As is usually the case when farmers zero
in on an issue like fuel prices or Asian soybean rust, farm input
suppliers are quick to respond with solutions, and Case IH has done that
with improvements to its MX Series Magnum tractors. - Farm Press
Editorial Staff
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FAPRI
2006 Agricultural Outlook
03/21/06
Despite continued high energy prices, the Food and
Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) expects world economic
growth to remain strong in the coming decade, at around 3 percent per
annum, boosting consumption of vegetable oil, dairy products, and meat
in many parts of the world. This projection is part of FAPRI's 2006
agricultural outlook presented to Congress. The outlook runs from crop
years 2005/06 to 2015/16. According to FAPRI, solid commodity prices and
a persistently weak U.S. dollar in industrialized trading countries keep
U.S. exports strong for the next 10 years. - The Corn & Soybean
Digest
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ROAD
WARRIOR: Potatoes and beer
03/21/06
Agriculture Road Warrior Dave Kohl writes: "My
travels took me north of the border to speak to the Manitoba Potato
Production Days Conference in Brandon, just outside of Winnipeg. The
next stop was to speak at the 50th Annual Convention of the Hop Growers
of America in Yakima, WA. What is interesting about these conventions is
that you get to enjoy the respective products. Potato and beer breaks
were very prevalent throughout the day and evening, which made for a
cheerful, jovial audience at the hop convention, to say the least..."
- The Corn & Soybean Digest
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Making
a living on the farm
03/21/06
Thiesse's Thoughts: Many times, non-farm
citizens wonder: "Why can't farms be the size they were in the early
1970's, and why can't family farms be successful at that size?"
According to the 1974 USDA Census of Agriculture, the average farm size
in South Central Minnesota was 261 acres of cropland, 25 dairy cows and
23 sows in a farrow-to-finish swine enterprise. According to the MnSCU
Farm Business Management (FBM) Summary of actual farm records for
2000-2004 in South Central Minnesota, the average net returns were
$45.75/acre for corn, $38.30/acre for soybeans, $11.63/hog marketed, and
$461.81/dairy cow..." - Kent Thiesse, The Corn & Soybean
Digest
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