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Logan
Hawkes
11/22/06
Crop News Weekly
I don't know about your house, but mine is
beginning to smell a lot like there's a feast brewing in the other room.
Which reminds me, and humbles me, to realize that I take a lot for
granted. Not that it is my intent. I just get busy with working and
living and trying to stay on schedule and, occasionally taking in a
football game on the tube..
But then, that's what the traditional American Thanksgiving is all about
isn't it? Remembering how much we have to be thankful about, being
humble over our blessings, gathering with family and friends and
celebrating with a gracious meal, and - if you're lucky - taking in that
occasional football game on the tube. Yes - that is a feast I smell in
the other room, and humble or not, I am thankful my life is so abundant,
that I am so fortunate to live in a free country and exercise liberties
and freedoms that many do not have. I am thankful for family and for
friends and business associates, for good health, happy children and the
fireplace that crackles in the corner. And I am thankful for that
occasional football game on the tube and the good fortune to consume
that feast I smell cooking in the other room in front of that new plasma
TV where that occasional football game is going to be watched on
Thanksgiving Day. Now, who's ready for some football?
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Corn
prices buck the trend; move higher
11/20/06
Most years when farmers are coming off three straight
seasons of bin-busting crops, economists would say, prices more than
likely are going into the tank. (Well, economists probably wouldn't say
it that way, but you know what I mean.) Until USDA's latest crop
production report, U.S. corn farmers appeared to be on track to harvest
their third straight 11-billion-bushel-plus crop, starting with the
record 11.8-billion-bushel harvest in 2004. (The October report lowered
the previous month's 11.1-billion-bushel forecast to 10.9 billion due to
dry conditions in the central Corn Belt.) - Forrest Laws, Farm Press
Editorial Staff
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Winter
wheat prices could soften
11/21/06
Motorists traveling the highways and by-ways of the
Mid-South and Southeast states are seeing a lot more green in farmers'
fields this fall. With Chicago soft red winter futures trading close to
$5 a bushel and relatively dry conditions allowing them to get in their
fields and plant, growers are believed to have significantly increased
their winter wheat plantings. But farmers shouldn't let those shiny,
green fields -- and currently high futures prices -- distract them
from making good pricing decisions for marketing that wheat when it
comes out of fields next May or June. - Forrest Laws, Farm Press
Editorial Staff
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Time
is right to adopt precision agriculture
11/20/06
The stars, or perhaps one should say, the satellites,
have never been more perfectly aligned for farmers to adopt precision
agriculture, according to Roger Carter, Clayton, La., crop consultant.
There's money to be saved and made, as well as cost-share assistance
from a government program. But if you're just starting, Carter suggests
that you keep it simple and don't get bogged down by definitions. -
Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
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"We have fields of giant ragweed not being controlled by glyphosate.
Those problems are more extensive than the fields we have with resistant
marestail. Roundup Ready crops had allowed growers to wait to put on
their application of glyphosate, therefore letting weeds get bigger and
harder to control. When resistant weeds become widespread, it's not
going to be simple anymore. It'll be a field by field recommendation and
we'll have to rely on older chemistries."
Doug Anderson, Agronomist, Anderson's Fertilizer Service, Romney,
Indiana
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New soybean
premium
11/18/06
Growers who buy at least 200 units of NK Brand Roundup
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brand by 200 units will receive at least a $0.09/bu. premium on the
soybeans. The premium could increase to $0.21/bu. if the grower uses
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News from the Top of the
Hill
11/17/06
National Hog Farmer
Voters Send Administration a Message -- The
voters sent a strong message to President Bush and the Congressional
Republican leadership when the Democrats were elected to take control of
both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The biggest surprise
of the election was the Democrats gaining six Senate seats to take
control of the Senate. They also gained 29 House seats to take control.
There a few House seats still waiting the final results do to recounts.
The voters said the four most important issues were the economy,
corruption in government, terrorism, and the war in Iraq. Six in 10
voters disapprove of the war in Iraq and indicated that the long-term
security of the United States has not improved. Forty percent of the
voters disapprove of Bush, 40% indicated the President was not a factor
in their voting; and 20% voted Republican to show their support of the
President. Other views of the voters were: over 60% of the voters
disapprove of Bush's job performance; 60% disapprove of Congress' job
performance; and 50% indicated the economy was not good. The voters were
split on the issue of immigration. Sixty percent of the voters
indicated that illegal immigrants working in the U.S. should be offered
an opportunity to apply for legal status. Forty percent said they
should be deported.
110th Congress -- With the change in control of the Congress,
there will be a number of new leaders. Senate: Senator Harry Reid
(D-NV) will serve as Majority Leader and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) will
be the Majority Whip. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will serve as
Minority Leader and Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) will be Minority Whip.
Durbin serves on the Senate Agriculture Appropriations subcommittee and
McConnell is a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee. House: Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) will be the first female Speaker of the House. The new
Majority Leader will be Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and Congressman
James Clyburn (D-SC) will be the new Majority Whip. Speaker Dennis
Hastert (R-IL) announced he will not serve as a leader of the House
Republicans. The Republicans were electing their new leaders at press
time.
House & Senate Agriculture Committees -- House: Congressman
Collin Peterson (D-MN) will be the new chairman of the House Agriculture
Committee with Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) serving as Ranking
Member. There will be at least seven new members of the House
Agriculture Committee. Approximately, seventy-five percent of the new
committee members have never been through a farm bill debate. Senate:
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) will serve as chairman of the Senate
Agriculture Committee and Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) will be the
Ranking Member. The Democratic leadership has appointed Senators-elect
Bob Casey (D-PA), Amy Klobachar (D-MN), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) as new
members of the committee. The Republican leadership will make their
appointments next month.
Lame Duck Session -- There are a number of issues that need to
be finished before the 109th Congress adjourns. The main items the House
and Senate leadership hope to finish are appropriations bills, including
agriculture, tax extenders, and the Vietnam trade bill.
Animal Terrorist Acts -- The House of Representatives passed
the "Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act of 2006." The legislation increases
penalties for criminal acts against animal enterprises (farms, meat
processing companies, laboratories, animal shelter, pet store, breeder,
or furrier). It revises criminal prohibitions against damaging or
interfering with the operations of an animal enterprise to include
"intentional damage or loss to any real or personal property and
intentional threats of death or serious bodily injury against
individuals." The legislation passed the Senate in September. President
Bush is expected to sign the legislation.
Russia WTO -- The United States and Russia have reached a
bilateral market access agreement concerning Russia's entry into the
World Trade Organization (WTO). According to USTR the agreement will
continue to in force the 2003 Bilateral Meat agreement, which covered
beef, pork, and poultry, through 2009. The tariff commitments will
benefit food processors of wheat, corn, barley, apples, pears, grapes,
raisins, almonds, walnuts, pistachio nuts, dairy, soybeans, soybean
meal, soybean oil, pet food, pork, beef, and poultry, once Russia joins
the WTO. The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) said the 2003 meat
agreement on a country-specific quota for U.S. pork has allowed U.S.
pork exports to increase from $8 million in 2003 to $72.2 million in
2005. Russia imports approximately $1 billion in U.S. agricultural
products.
USDA Nominations -- Mark Keenum, chief of staff to Senator Thad
Cochran (R-MS), has been nominated to be USDA Under Secretary of
Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services. Keenum has been
involved in a number of previous farm bills. He is a former assistant
professor of economics at Mississippi State University. - Scott
Shearer
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Equipment
sales flat
11/17/06
Agricultural equipment manufacturers report that they
expect equipment sales in 2007 to be flat or slowing. The annual
Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) report shows that sales of
2-wd tractors of 100 hp and lower will be essentially flat in the U.S.
Sales of tractors over 100 hp are predicted to decrease about 3%. Sales
of 4-wd tractors are expected to decline 2.5%. Manufacturers expect a
slight up-tick in combine sales, with about a 1% increase. - Farm
Industry News
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Biodiesel to
boost economy
11/18/06
A new study, "Contribution of the biodiesel industry
to the economy of the U.S.," predicts biodiesel and its related
industries of production and job creation will add $24 billion to the
U.S. economy between 2006 and 2015. The study by the National Biodiesel
Board predicts total production capacity in the U.S. will grow from 75
million gals. in 2005, to 650 million gals./year by 2015, creating
39,100 new jobs during that time. Landlinemag.com reports soybeans
continue to be the crop of choice to produce the oil that can be made
into non-toxic biodiesel, but other vegetable oils, animal fats and
recycled grease are also common.
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Fall
herbicides may help combat resistant marestail
11/17/06
"You can pay me now or pay me later." This line from
the old TV commercial may be on the minds of some farmers as they begin
making fall herbicide applications to control glyphosate-resistant
horseweed and other problem weeds. What once was a time to rest up from
the harvest or head for the duck blind has become another application
window for growers spraying tank mixes of herbicides such as flumioxazin
(Valor) and dicamba (Clarity) or 2,4-D or flumioxazin alone to control
resistant horseweed or marestail. - Forrest Laws, Farm Press
Editorial Staff
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The
arrogance of power
11/17/06
Forty years ago, Sen. William Fulbright, D-Ark., then
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, published his book,
"The Arrogance of Power." In the midst of the debacle that was Vietnam
and the untrammeled arrogance of power by President Lyndon Johnson and
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Fulbright's was a reasoned voice of
dissent, contending that the war was sapping U.S. resources that should
better be used "for the education of our children, the rehabilitation of
our cities, and the making available of jobs for all who want to work."
- Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
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Corn
remains leader in grain markets
11/17/06
The wheat market continues to impress with futures
prices reaching as high as $5.25 during trading in early November. But
corn will continue to be the leader in the market based on a backdrop of
shrinking supplies going into 2007, according to Jim Bower, a market
analyst with Bower Trading Co., Lafayette, Ind. Speaking at a conference
call sponsored by the Minneapolis Grain Exchange on USDA's Nov. 9 supply
and demand estimates, Bower said, "The market needs to buy more corn
acres in 2007 and consequently, if we get a rise in price to get that
corn into production, the soybean market to a certain degree is going to
have to follow."
- Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
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Glyphosate
drift task force recommendations
11/16/06
There are a lot of things going on right now. A lot of
it has me thinking that I need to find a way to re-retire. I get a lot
of questions about what is going on with the glyphosate task force. We
have completed our set of meetings to which we invited representatives
of different segments of the industry for comments and input. Now we'll
draft a set of recommendations that will go to the pesticide committee
of the Arkansas State Plant Board. - Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed
Consultants, LLC
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Asian
soybean rust makes earlier, vigorous appearance
11/15/06
With Asian soybean rust increasingly in the Louisiana
soybean disease mix, Boyd Padgett believes it's time for an updated
review of symptoms. That's especially true since so many ASR symptoms
overlap with established diseases. "When I began looking at cercospora
foliar blight, I didn't think it would be difficult to distinguish from
Asian soybean rust," said the LSU AgCenter plant pathologist at the
recent Crop Demonstration meeting at the Dean Lee Research and Extension
Center in Alexandria, La. - David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial
Staff
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Research
may reduce drought yield drag
11/16/06
Few factors affect soybean farmers like the weather,
and it's the one factor you can't change, only try to manage. But recent
soybean checkoff-sponsored research may give soybean farmers another
tool to manage one of the weather challenges that plague many farmers --
drought. Two new soybean lines offer a genetic advantage for yields in
drought conditions, according to new research. The University of Florida
and University of Arkansas collaborated on research finding new soybean
lines that are better able to fix nitrogen (N) in spite of water
deficit. The lack of water when soil begins drying makes it harder for
soybeans to fix N, which results in yield drag. This research could help
reduce that yield drag. - The Corn & Soybean Digest
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Thiesse's
Thoughts
11/16/06
The latest USDA Crop Production Report, released on
Nov. 9, gives an indication of the final harvest results for the 2006
U.S. corn and soybean crop, and what the carryover grain stocks are as
we head into 2007. According to the report, it's estimated that 71.0
million acres of corn will be harvested in 2006 with a total production
of 10.7 billion bushels of corn. The estimated 2006 corn production
level is slightly below the 2005 corn production of 11.1 billion
bushels, and well below the record 11.8 billion bushels harvested in
2004, but is above the 10.1 billion bushel production in 2003 and 8.9
billion bushels in 2002. - Kent Thiesse, The Corn & Soybean
Digest
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