An ag economist at the University of Illinois says double-cropping soybeans with wheat has the greatest profit potential for farmers in warmer growing regions next year. Gary Schnitkey tells Brownfield, “Wheat double-cropped soybeans is projected to be more profitable than either corn or stand-alone soybeans.” “That’s what we’re projecting now, and actually that’s the way it […]
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It was another summer of battling corn leaf aphids for many Midwestern farmers. University of Illinois entomologist, Nick Seiter, says it
A member of the Senate Ag Committee says reallocating the volume of small refining exemptions into future blending quotas over the
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A ribbon cutting happened this week for the $1.8 million newly expanded Swine Education and Research Facility at South Dakota State
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