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Logan
Hawkes
11/08/06
Crop News Weekly
By the time you open this e-letter chances are
good all the final results will be in, all the votes tallied in the
midterm elections, and you will know whether the Republicans or the
Democrats will sway majority rule over the House and Senate. All bets
were off when the polls opened nationwide Tuesday. Experts say it
largely depends on voter turnout, and whether new, electronic voting
systems perform to standard. If you ask me, that in itself sounds a
little scary. Sure, even with paper ballots mistakes can and do happen.
But with paper ballots, they can be recounted with a degree of accuracy.
The new system certainly gives conspiracy theorists ammunition and
inspiration. It does make you wonder, regardless which side of the
political fence you find yourself on, was George Orwell on target?
In the news this week,
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Response
plans in place for ag disasters
11/06/06
Of the many tragedies caused by a chain of powerful
tornados that swept though eastern Arkansas, the Missouri Bootheel and
west Tennessee on April 2, 2006, little has been said about the effect
of the high winds on livestock. Animals not killed in the initial storm
often wandered off when fences were destroyed -- some onto highways to
be killed or maimed in accidents, or euthanized because there was no way
to contain them. - Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
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NCGA
proposal would replace non-recourse loan
11/03/06
The National Corn Growers Association's revenue
assurance proposal would generate more farm program payments on some
corn farms in the Midwest and result in lower payments on others if it
was incorporated into the next farm bill. It would also "stabilize" farm
revenues by providing more benefits in years when revenue from the
market is low and less when revenue from the market is adequate with
less risk of violating World Trade Organization rules, according to a
National Corn Growers Association analysis. - Forrest Laws, Farm
Press Editorial Staff
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Farmers
had plenty to fret over on Nov. 7
11/03/06
Jon Tester is a farmer who's running against Montana
Sen. Conrad Burns in the Nov. 7 election. (By the time you read this,
you should know the winner.) Tester may be one of the few candidates who
took six days off from campaigning in September to harvest grain. If he
wins (won), he will be one of the few in Congress who farm for a living.
(Three senators -- Larry Craig, R-Idaho; Charles Grassley, R-Iowa; and
Ken Salazar, D-Colo. -- and a handful of House members list themselves
as farmers or ranchers. Burns is a broadcaster.) - Forrest Laws, Farm
Press Editorial Staff
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U of
I robots go solar
A solar-powered robot with 20/20 vision, on a
search-and-destroy quest for weeds, will soon be moving up and down the
crop rows at the experimental fields at the University of Illinois.
What's more, this robot has the potential to control weeds while
significantly reducing herbicide use. The robot uses GPS for navigation,
and there are two small cameras mounted on a frame on top of the machine
to give the robot depth perception, just like a human, says Lei Tian,
agricultural engineer at the U of I. - The Corn & Soybean
Digest
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News from the Top of the
Hill
11/03/06
National Hog Farmer
US Beef to Korea -- The first shipment of
U.S. beef in three yearshas arrived in South Korea. The shipment is from
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef. The nine-ton shipment will now go through
quarantine inspections. USDA in September announced that South Korea had
reopened its market to U.S. boneless beef but industry has been
concerned about South Korea's zero tolerance on bone chips. The U.S.
exported $49 million in boneless beef to South Korea in 2003.
Revenue-Based Safety Net for Corn -- The National Corn Growers
Association (NCGA) has released its preliminary analysis on the impact
of their revenue-based safety net program for corn growers. According to
NCGA, the revenue-based program would include maintenance of current
calculation methods for direct payments; change the nonrecourse loan
program to a recourse loan program; create a base revenue program (BRP);
and modify the current countercyclical program into a revenue
countercyclical payment (RCCP). The analysis compares four corn farms
using the 2002 farm bill and NCGA's revenue-based program. NCGA said,
"The 2002 farm bill has done a good job, but is expiring at a time when
we have a new era of agriculture. NCGA's farm bill proposal could fit
very well into agriculture's future and be just as accepted as the 2002
farm bill today."
USDA Appoints Beef Board -- USDA announced the appointments to
the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion Board. The following were appointed
representing cattle producers: Judy E. Prosser, AZ.; I. Jack Cowley and
Richard L. Nock, CA; Roger L. Evans, CO; Jeffrey L. Clausen and Robert
L. Johnson, IA; Jerald L. Bohn and Don H. Hullman, KS; T. Barrett
Porter, LA; Charles E. Markley, MI; Aquilla M. Ward, Mid-Atlantic; John
C. Schafer, MN; Charles R. Hull, MS; Jerry R. King, MO; Kristy L. Lage
and David C. Lamb, NE; Preston T. Wright, NV; Margaret D. McKeen, NM;
Roger M. Pendleton, NC; Lucinda M. Williams, Northeast; Bill D. Boyer,
OK; Allen L. Walth and Myron J. Williams, SD; Jennifer A. Senn,
Southeast; Robert J. Reviere, Jr., TN.; Peter F. Case, Justin P. Dauer,
Charles A. Kiker III, and Walter E. Lasley, TX; Richard V. Nielson, UT;
Mark E. Riechers and Nancy L. Thomas, WI.; Dianne S. Kirkbride, WY.
Appointed to represent importers were: Lawrence I. Bryant, VA, Greg E.
Silpe, CT, and Michelle A. Gorman, MD. - Scott Shearer
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Asian
soybean rust travels Mid-South
11/03/06
Finding recent cool, wet weather to its liking, Asian
soybean rust is stretching its legs in the Mid-South. The disease has
recently traveled steadily northwards from Louisiana up the Mississippi
River into the Bootheel and west Tennessee. While the Mid-South soybean
crop is long finished and ASR's arrival is too late to damage yields,
Extension researchers have been tracking it closely. - David Bennett,
Farm Press Editorial Staff
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The
future of alternative energy sources
11/02/06
What are the different sources of energy that the U.S.
consumer uses? Fossil fuels continue to fill the bulk of America's needs
for energy. The renewable energy sources included are biomass (wood,
wood waste, municipal solid waste, landfill gas, ethanol and other
biomass); geothermal; wind; solar (solar thermal and photovoltaic); and
conventional hydropower. - Lamar James, Arkansas Extension
Service
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Researchers
identify drought-resistant soybean lines
11/02/06
Recent soybean checkoff-sponsored research may give
U.S. soybean farmers another tool to manage one of the weather
challenges that plague them -- drought. The discovery of two new lines
of drought-resistant soybeans "is more than just an insurance policy
against drought conditions," says Tom Sinclair, University of Florida
researcher. "These lines will help increase yields even in years with no
obvious drought. These genes could be yield enhancers in most every
year."
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How
do you spell Conservation Security Program?
11/02/06
The Conservation Security Program "just doesn't get
any respect" from Congress or the Bush administration, according to
environmentalists who have begun pushing for a higher profile for the
CSP in the new farm bill. Since a House-Senate conference committee
included the legislation in the 2002 farm law, congressional leaders and
USDA have treated it like a stepchild, cutting a total of $4 billion in
funding from the CSP while touting the environmental benefits of
conservation programs. - Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial
Staff
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Where
are energy prices going?
11/01/06
What's going on with gas and oil prices? Crude oil
prices hovering around $58 per barrel are now down significantly since
almost making $80 in July. Arkansas consumers are enjoying much lower
fuel prices at the pump than they've been used to paying. But strong
global growth continues to fuel an increasing demand for oil, and we
haven't seen the last of high oil prices and volatile price swings,
warns Bobby Coats, Arkansas Extension agricultural policy economist.
- Lamar James, Arkansas Extension Communications Specialist
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Impacts
from late/delayed planting of soybeans
11/01/06
Many of my previous articles have touted planting
soybeans early in the Mid-South to achieve greater yields and returns.
However, there are other reasons for planting early that, if not
achieved, may result in increased costs and/or lost income. When
planning for early planting, producers select top varieties from an
early maturity group. If planting is delayed to late May and beyond,
these early-maturing varieties may be unsuitable. - Larry G.
Heatherly, Freelance Writer
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Another
U.S. brand makes switch to soybean oil
11/01/06
According to Qualisoy, a soybean industry initiative
helping market healthier, more functional soybean products to the food
industry, Yum Brands Inc. represents the second major U.S. brand to
switch to low-linolenic soybean oil. Yum Brands Inc. announced Oct. 30
that the company's 5,500 KFC restaurants across the U.S. will switch
from partially hydrogenated vegetable oil to low-linolenic soybean oil.
KFC will use a Qualisoy-approved variety of this enhanced oil. - The
Corn & Soybean Digest
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Equipment
manufacturers predict 2007 retail trends
10/31/06
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has
released its 2007 "ag outlook" report, which provides farm machinery
manufacturers' predictions for overall business volume in the U.S. and
Canada. Agricultural machinery manufacturers participating in the survey
expect the industry overall to experience flat or a slowing in retail
sales of 2-wheel-drive tractors in 2007, with the greatest decreases in
the over-100-hp category, and with U.S. sales slightly more robust than
Canada. - The Corn & Soybean Digest
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IPNI to
address global crop production
11/06/06
AgPR
A new global, scientific, agronomic organization
called the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) has been
recently established by a resolution adopted unanimously by IPNI's
founding members. The Board of Directors of the Potash & Phosphate
Institute (PPI) has committed its scientific staff to the new global
IPNI organization. By the end of 2006, PPI will be fully integrated into
IPNI. Thereafter, PPI will no longer exist.
Scheduled to officially begin operations January 1, 2007, IPNI will
immediately have effective scientific programs in place in North
America, Central and South America, China, India, and Southeast Asia.
IPNI anticipates promptly establishing such programs in Western and
Eastern Europe as well as in the Middle East.
Dr. Terry L. Roberts of Norcross, Georgia, will serve as the first
president of IPNI. Dr. Paul E. Fixen of Brookings, South Dakota, will be
Coordinator, Americas Group, and Dr. Adrian Johnston of Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, will be Coordinator, Asia Group.
Founding members of IPNI are: Agrium Inc.; Arab Potash Company;
Belarusian Potash Company; Bunge Fertilizantes S.A.; CF Industries
Holding, Inc.; Intrepid Mining, LLC; K+S KALI GmbH; Mosaic; PotashCorp;
Saskferco; Simplot; Sinochem Hong Kong Ltd.; Spur Ventures Inc.; SQM;
Terra Industries Inc.; and Uralkali. - AgPR
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