Advertise in Print | Subscriptions
View Cart Shopping Cart

Refine your search

  [ Advanced Options ]

TAGS

Articles: 212 results from the past year. For older articles, see advanced options.

Drought stress: not a bad energy beet test
For most commercially grown crops, droughty conditions aren’t welcome. But to a scientist studying the feasibility of a new crop — energy beets, for example — a year of drought is an opportunity.
Monday, August, 06, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
Area wheat harvest fares well
Farmers in the Upper Midwest were pleased this spring when good weather allowed them to plant wheat and barley earlier than usual. They’re even more pleased now.
Monday, August, 06, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
Alternatives to antibiotics
For 60 years, U.S. livestock producers have used antibiotics to help keep their animals healthy. The practice has drawn criticism for nearly as long.
Monday, August, 06, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
Petition requests RFS suspension
Livestock and poultry producers formally asked the Obama administration July 30 to suspend the nation’s renewable fuels standard because it is causing “severe economic harm” as corn prices surged to a record.
Friday, August, 03, 2012 - Forum Communications - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
House GOP won't extend farm bill
With Republicans badly split over farm subsidies and cutting food stamps, House GOP leaders July 31 decided to drop plans to extend the current farm program for one year and instead will press for immediate help for drought-stricken livestock producers.
Wednesday, August, 01, 2012 - Associated Press - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
Petition requests RFS suspension
Livestock and poultry producers formally asked the Obama administration July 30 to suspend the nation’s renewable fuels standard because it is causing “severe economic harm” as corn prices surged to a record.
Tuesday, July, 31, 2012 - Forum Communications - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
Time to test forage?
If you haven’t been testing the forage you feed to livestock, this might be the year to start.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
Website addresses questions about Canadian grain marketing act
A new website has answers for U.S. and Canadian wheat, durum and barley producers with questions about the Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
Rain helpful but spotty
The National Agricultural Statistics Service on July 22 confirmed what most farmers in the region can see up-close — it’s dry. Crop conditions in the last official report didn’t include rains that came to some of the region on July 25.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
Sugar beets need rain
Sugar beets in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota have held up relatively well this hot, dry summer, but many fields are short of moisture even after recent rainfall, officials say.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
APHIS decision
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service on July 19 announced it determined that Roundup Ready sugar beets would no longer be a regulated article under genetically-engineered organism laws.
Monday, July, 30, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
Did N.D. wheat weather drought?
The Wheat Quality Council's annual inspection tour of wheat fields in North Dakota, western Minnesota and northern South Dakota began July 24 in Fargo, N.D., and ended there July 26.
Friday, July, 27, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
Take action against weeds
What a difference a week makes. After a fast start to the planting season, we got a short break thanks to some precipitation that was much-needed at the time. Many areas were in dire need of moisture, so it was nice to see much of South Dakota getting rain.
Monday, July, 23, 2012 - Agweek - Opinion

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
No magic
Barley was a commodity, but now is a specialty crop
Monday, July, 23, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
House urged to act on farm bill
Citing the drought, many farm groups and House members including House Agriculture Committee ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., are putting pressure on the House Republican leadership to bring the farm bill to the House floor in the next two weeks, but so far House Republican leaders have made no decision about advancing the legislation.
Friday, July, 20, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
Fertilizer plant plans go to APUC
Darin Anderson, president of the North Dakota Corn Growers Association, on July 19 will be among leaders helping make the pitch for $150,000 from the North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Commission to help finance a business plan to construct an anhydrous ammonia fertilizer manufacturing plant.
Monday, July, 16, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
End of an Era
Noodles by Leonardo’s durum mill and pasta plant in Cando, N.D., is shutting down for good, tentatively on Sept. 30.
Monday, July, 16, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
House Ag Committee approves farm bill
“I’m just overjoyed the bill is done in committee at this moment,” House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., told reporters in the early morning hours of July 12 after the committee approved the farm bill on a roll call vote of 35 to 11.
Thursday, July, 12, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
N.D. Farmer's Union holds public forums on farm bill
The U.S. Senate’s version of the 2012 farm bill looks promising to the North Dakota Farmers Union, the union’s president, Woody Barth, told local farmers July 10 at a public forum at the pavilion in Belfield, N.D.
Thursday, July, 12, 2012 - Forum Communications - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
House Ag Committee releases its farm bill
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., on July 5 introduced a farm bill proposal that garnered predictable reactions from farm and nutrition groups.
Monday, July, 09, 2012 - Agweek - News

Newspaperprints Purchase a print of this Newspaper Page
« Previous   2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  Next »