Michigan Soybean Committee Provides Career Connections
In this Pods for Profit, Michigan Soybean Committee board member John Burk explains how the checkoff is connecting college students and interns with potential agricultural employers.
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USDA announces funding for Indiana specialty crop growers
The USDA has awarded over $513,000 to Indiana’s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. Purdue Extension’s Scott Monroe says funding will go to three ISDA projects, benefiting Indiana farmers. “What we’re hoping is that by documenting the process and using the Purdue Student Farm up...
45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit
The Inflation Reduction Act created two novel, federal carbon-intensity-based tax credits for biofuels known as the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Tax Credit and the 40B Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit. On this episode of Seeds of Success, an Iowa Soybean Association (ISA) director says...
A dry pattern ahead for the Heartland; a gradual warming trend from northwest to southeast
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures across Florida’s peninsula and from the Pacific Coast to the Plains and upper Midwest, while cooler-than-normal conditions will cover much of the South, East, and lower Midwest. Meanwhile,...
Temps vary across the Heartland; some rain on the far southern Plains, largely dry elsewhere
Across the Corn Belt, dry weather accompanies near- or below-normal temperatures. Immature corn and soybeans are benefiting from last week’s rain, which was heaviest (locally 1 to 3 inches or more) across the upper Midwest. Recent rainfall was lighter in drought-affected areas of the...
Earn Incentives for Conservation Practices
Indiana corn and soybean checkoffs invest in programs that help farmers implement environmentally sustainable practices on their operations. Tyler Roush, Indiana field program rep for the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund says sustainability benefits farmers across the state.
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Tire traffic is harder on alfalfa than many farmers think
Brian Luck with the University of Wisconsin has studied field traffic with different types of machines and tires and what that does to alfalfa stands, and the field’s ability to remain productive.
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Generational Farming Methods
While working his land, farmer Robert Alpers in Prairie Home, MO actively thinks about how important his farming methods are to those who will farm after him. Alpers says that conservation on their farm means keeping the soil in place, productive, and ready for...
Corn and Soybean Innovations
In this week’s Managing for Profit, a partnership with Brevant seeds and Brownfield Ag News, Area Product Manager Craig Solomon says new trait technologies will help farmers win big at harvest.
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Spotlight on Soybeans Podcast Ep. 5 | Conservation Farming
Conservation plays a major role in Missouri’s agriculture and keeps Missouri farms sustainable. In this Spotlight on Soybeans Podcast, Robert Alpers says his farm in Prairie Home, MO uses conservation methods as a way to save and improve their most valuable resource: their soil....
Rep. Feenstra says producers need crop insurance certainty
A U.S. Representative from Iowa says the ag industry deserves the certainty of a new five-year farm bill. Republican Randy Feenstra tells Brownfield many farmers at the 2024 Farm Progress Show expressed concerns about crop insurance. “When you’ve got corn at $3.60 and soybeans...
Scout for tar spot in September
An agronomy manager with Wyffels Hybrids says tar spot scouting needs to be a priority as harvest approaches. Eric Wilson says many farmers have stepped up their management of the disease. “I feel like more farmers sprayed fungicide this year than they did a...
