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The Goods On Marketing Grain

Now that the crop is in the bin, I’m sure you’re all pleased to call time of death on this growing season. This, of course, doesn’t mean the work for this year is done; in fact, now that you know what you have, it’s time to turn crop into cash. All the production in the[...]

Wheat &Chaff - for Oct. 4, 2010

13 NEW CEREAL VARIETIESWhen I first started out as a writer in the agriculture industry I loathed September for one reason — new varieties. Why, you may ask? Well, I won’t bore you with the details, but compiling a comprehensive, useful and complete list of new, commercially available varieties of any crop is a rather,[...]


Wheat & Chaff - for Apr. 19, 2010

ROTATION, ROTATION, ROTATION It’s location that matters most in real estate, but for disease management it’s rotation that pays dividends. Well, that’s not entirely true; there are those pesky wind-and seed-borne diseases that could care less what crop was grown the year previously. But for diseases that live in the soil or on crop residue,[...]