The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced this week they will rebuild the Bird’s Point Levee, but only to a height of 51 feet, 11 feet below its original height.
While producing such productive soybeans is possible, producers have a tendency to look for additional, or "alternative," management practices before having fully mastered the basic tenets of raising beans, Harold Watters says.
Source: By Peter Thomison, Ohio State University C.O.R.N. Newsletter
Crop physiologists believe that high night temperatures, in the 70s or 80s, can result in wasteful respiration and a lower net amount of dry matter accumulation in plants.
Source: By Emerson Nafziger, University of Illinois
As the dry weather continues and the Illinois corn crop rating continues to slip, we've received reports of loss of lower leaves with what seem to be different symptoms than we usually see under dry conditions.
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Iowa Corn Promotion Board
Federal forecasts show U.S. farmers will harvest dramatically less grain and soybeans than expected this year, failing to ease high prices and rebuild low global supplies.
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