More night-reading time as days shorten going into fall
As autumn approaches and you unearth those lost Christmas bookstore gift certificates in your cleaning, check out even more great books you may not yet have had time to read this summer.
Domestic cotton yield, price outlooks shrink this season
Higher temperatures in August ironed out some worries of unusually low cotton yields in West Tennessee. But global supply and demand are keeping cotton futures below 70 cents a pound, meaning Mid-South cotton growers must carefully manage defoliation for a profitable harvest.
Aventine’s $30M upgrade to enhance ethanol production
Seventy year-old coal boiler technology was replaced by state-of-the-art high-pressure natural gas boilers as part of a $13.2 million upgrade to Aventine Renewable Energy of Pekin, a leading producer, marketer and supplier of ethanol.
A new study tracking rivers and streams throughout the United States for 20 years concludes risks to people from pesticide use has declined, but the risk to aquatic life has soared in urban areas.
Frontier Communications and DISH Network have launched America’s Best Communities, a $10 million competition to stimulate growth and revitalization in small cities and towns across Frontier’s 27-state footprint.
With excellent growing conditions and planted acreage likely leading to a record soybean harvest this year, a soil-based disease could take a bite out of yields in Illinois, particularly in the west-central part of the state.
Rail hearings focus on grain storage backlog and harvest
Rail service issues associated with transporting agricultural products were “center rail” during separate hearings by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) and U.S. Senate Commerce Committee (SCC) earlier this month.
