| What everyone’s reading this month
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 | | It’s more than just the calendar delaying the corn’s maturity, something is making it take more growing degree days (GDDs) than even the maturity rating indicates. |
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Almost 30 years after Saddam Hussein put a match to 600-plus Kuwaiti oil wells during the Gulf War, Ed Hain lays claim to ending one of the most environmentally destructive war crimes ever recorded. |
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Corn growers in Illinois are seeing a repeating theme in fields this fall: big numbers on their combine monitors but whole-field yield averages that aren’t adding up to what they expect. |
 | | The week's negative market reaction, Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group says, is likely because these trade talks have gone on for so long. |
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The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection reports that 54 Wisconsin dairy farms sold out in June. That’s on top of the 78 that left the business in May. |
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In the October issue of Farm Journal we shared this fantastic picture of extra tall silage standing ready for harvest. It’s a great picture and the picture is real. What isn’t real is the story we were told about it. |
 | | The decision to sell at harvest or store grain is a tough one every year, but analysts say the decision this year carries even more weight. |
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A Facebook video shows the Norfolk Southern Railroad Bridge in Brunswick, Mo., getting wiped out by raging water. Flooding is now overtaking many farm fields that had just started to dry out from major flooding this spring and summer. |
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A farming community rallies around one of their own, after he was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. |
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Whether growing for seed, fiber or cannabidiol (CBD), hemp producers share a colossal commonality: They are all learning on the go. |
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