Corn tops 264 bushels in a NW Ohio seed field test
Rarely do corn seed field tests produce astonishing results, but a full-season test conducted by Farmer’s Independent Research of Seed Technologies (FIRST) at the farm of Bill and Ken Glantz in Napoleon left FIRST Site Manager Rich Schleuning a bit amazed.
The corn numbers in the November supply and demand report held little support for the complex. The average corn yield increased 1.3 bushels per acre to raise total crop size by 99 million bushels – to a large 13.65 billion.
WASDE: Milk-per-cow growth remains slower than expected
USDA bean counters reduced their 2015 and 2016 milk production estimate in the latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report as "the dairy herd is expected to decline more rapidly from its second-quarter peak, and growth in milk per cow in 2015 remains slower than expected."
WASDE sees meat production rising, with pork climbing the least
USDA’s November World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates predicted that U.S. meat production would be up 2.9 percent in 2016 with pork up 1.7 percent, beef up 4.8 percent, broilers up 1.9 percent and turkey up 7.9 percent.
Equipment shows are good way to learn more on local dealers
The Half Century of Progress took place from Aug. 27-30 at the Rantoul Airport and former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Ill. At this show, one tractor had some Minneapolis Moline history that was pretty special.
Chris Stapleton stole show and took home the awards
For those of you who watched the recent Country Music Assoc. Awards show, there were the typical performances by a who’s who of country superstars. A great show all in all, I would say.
Food. Friends. Family. Football. Thanksgiving would be incomplete without any of them, but the most important is the holiday feast your family and friends have gathered to enjoy while the game plays in the background.
A longstanding dispute between the producers of sugar and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) took the stage last week in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles.
