 | | Adam Chappell was a slave to pigweed. In 2009, he was on the brink of bankruptcy and facing a go-broke or go-green proposition. Drowning in input costs, Chappell cut bait from conventional agriculture and dived into a bootstrap version of innovative farming. |
 | | Syngenta Group announced it acquired Valagro, a biological company based in Atessa, Italy. This purchase gives the company a stronger foothold into biologicals and asserts their commitment to its ‘Good Growth Plan’ to improve environmental sustainability. |
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 | | When USDA updated its Crop Production report and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates on Sept. 11, a change USDA didn’t make might have caused the most head scratching. |
 | | John Phipps analyzes "old wives tales" and their accuracy. |
 | | The U.S. accounted for 7% of Chinese crude imports through mid-September, according to London-based market intelligence firm Vortexa Ltd — up from 0.4% in January. |
 | | Wood could one day become the window to the world. Details, in today's AgDay Minute. |
 | | Finished soybeans Wednesday evening. Dryland beans were about as expected due to the dryness of this past summer. Irrigated beans were surprisingly good. Overall, the bean crop was better than expected. Started on corn yesterday (1 Oct). The first field cut was a sandy dryland patch. I wasn't expecting much-and the field delivered-50 bushels per acre. Moved into an irrigated field next and the yields were very disappointing-well below 200 bpa on a field with a 240 bpa APH yield. This was my first planted field in 2020. The growing season was a challenge as first the corn froze off, then was laid flat by the wind in early June. There was another widespread wind event in early July that caused a lot of green snap. It certainly looks like there will be few record yields in northern Buffalo county. |
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