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Good News: Cleaner Water Family Farms are Alive and Well Snowy thoughts A Cheap Price Can Be An Expensive Lesson Cotton Market Signals Mixed High-tech Models help Track Diseases Government Regulation and the Strangulation of Business Don't Try This at Farm Progress Show Message of Climate Change Meetings Disturbing Kansas Winter is Challenging but Beautiful GM debate in the Land of Gladiators Tails for Tails Is Irritating, But Smart EPA Releases Final RFS2 Rule Getting Ready for Spring The Italian Job Market prices declining; traders reconsidering long positions. Nothing's Simple, Particularly Renewable Fuels Getting a Life, Off the Farm Impact of Climate Change from Any Source Could Hit Kansas Hard Dryer buying decisions HSUS Petitions for Counter Amendment Ag's Heroes: A Defender of Science Weather Chaser Hits the Road Control Runoff From Your Farm – or Else Life Springs Anew in Farrowing House, Lambing Barn Justice Department: Getting Serious with Ag? Return To 'Core' Values Engineering Awards Highlight New Tech Is It Time to Reduce Water Rights? Just What We Need: Another Snowstorm Vagarities of the Weather Hit Everybody Decoding our 'Agrarian Myth' Appearance Counts, Trust Me Alfalfa Producers are "Consumers" Too Growing Corn Imperils Wildlife? A Proper Send-off Soybean Genome Sequenced We Interrupt This Game for a Non-Profit Message Do You Have Gas? Climate Change Bill Chances Diminish Maybe I'm Not as Smart as a Fifth Grader! cover crops Wanted: Neighborhood Security Planning for Crop Input Needs Global Ag Leaders Talk Climate Change Getting By in 2009 Who's next on your farm? Some Real Figures to Refute Chicken Little Innovation Award Winners Announced Land of opportunity EPA Takes Aim at Chesapeake Bay Two Ways To Use '09 Harvest Lessons in Management Will 2009 Drive 2010 Retirements? How Does Cellulosic Ethanol Remove the Food Vs. Fuel Scenario? Big 'To-Do' Over Little Done Frustrations in Precision USDA Report Pushes Prices Down In Vegas, Get a Cab Germany's rising ag star Wheat's Dismal 2010 Outlook Continuous Cotton Raising Animals in Confinement: Is it a Sin? Is Kansas System on Water Rights the Right Way to Go? Water Supplies for Future Are At Risk Evaluate How to Claim Income with SURE Payments Ignorance, Romance Attracts Another Entertainer Tech Conversations Reveal New Ideas The Beat Goes On Despite the Weather Bt Suffers Adjective Violence From Organic Fund Raisers War of Words Coming over Market Power Abuse Thinking about Bubbles Are Your Power Costs Too High? Sneaking a Peak at Auto Show Launches Corn harvest Oh, Yeah, Folks. It's Winter Out There Your Chance to Speak Out on Property Tax With Winter Storm Coming, Topeka Farm Show is Hopping DDGs as World Hunger Solution? Farming Gets a Bad Label Faxing Appears To Be On Its Way Out Copenhagen and Agriculture – Any Progress? Ten Best Things that Didn't Happen in 2009! Growers Dominate Leader Board Curious about cotton Payment Loopholes Really Getting Tightened? Ends and Beginnings Your New Year Will Be Happier Secret of Love Over the River and Through the Woods Ohio Farm Leaders Step Up in 2009 Perspective and Change It Looks Like Harvest Is Finally Done Happy New Year! Your N Price Just Went Up Corn Reveals New Secrets Perchlorate May be in Your Farming Future The Disappearing Barber Pole A Wish List? Grassley: Biodiesel Extension Could Come in Late January Brazil Soybean Crop: Looking Good Copenhagen: What Next? Putting Tech to Work Two Places in Indiana I Had Never Been Before Ben Bernanke is Time's Person of the Year, Seriously? Vilsack questions USDA's climate change modeling Farmers as wordsmiths and environmentalists Problem Solving Might Be Best Way to Avoid Government Regulation China goes High Mech Reviving the Heat of Summers Past Time To Change Where You're Driving? Towers, Towers Everywhere USDA implements new dairy program What Joel Osteen Needs to Learn About Scripture and Pork Milk Money Is Ag "Too Big To Fail"? Mother Nature's Mid-life Crisis Living History at Malabar Farm Checkmarks Off the Gift List Sage Nutrition Advice From Dr. Oz Wind Farms vs. Property Values Birdseye View of a Land Auction Selecting the 'Right' Tree a Process Winter Blast Appears to be Almost Over Slipping into Year End House Approves Biodiesel Tax Extension Specialization or diversification Grain Sorghum Is A No-Nonsense Ethanol Feedstock Global Temperature Report Offers Contrast Police Your Own Looking Ahead to 2010 Harvest condtions A Farm Boy’s Education Why We Need Mary Fleming Everyone Needs A Reality Check Now and Then What's in a Name? Even Animal Activists Should Be Thanking Farmers Remember Your "Visitors" This Christmas Season Late harvest Unlocking Biofuel Potential Keep The Thanksgiving Spirit Going The Botched Christmas Tree Outing: Brought to Us by Harvest ‘09 Monsanto Loss Hurts Farmers Great Plains Storage Dilemma End of an Era? Farmer Smith, Get Your Gun Volatile Marks Shuffle Leader Board Ignorance Of Agriculture's Economic Role Is a Threat Thanksgiving: A Place In The Heart Sorting Through the Smartphone Choices What’s next for the Livestock Care Board? EPA to Regulate Your Farm Dust Count Your Blessings, But . . .! It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It Wow! They Don't Sell Cattle Like They Once Did A Big Change is Coming Beer and Bockwurst - But no Biotech A Time of Thanksgiving Senate Will Wait Until Spring to Move on Climate Change Bill Corn Quality Storm Water Runoff Exemption Threatened Record Harvest Finally In the Books Ford Pulls Out Ahead - Again Snow, Slush and Discouragement Give Way to Blue Skies Selling power Computer Choices Abound...Again Make Lemonade Out of Lemons The Idling Drummer Precision Ag Reaching Critical Mass? Traditional Versus Factory Farms European Farm Equipment: Bigger, with Better Gadgets Looking at How Land Use May Impact the Climate Estate Tax Fix Could Be Coming Rain Interrupts Push to Get Crops Out of Field Adkins Reviews his Farm Science Favorites CAFOs Under Fire Good News on Corn and Milo Harvest Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover From the Ground to The Sky On Biofuels Food Security is Everyone's Concern Embrace Some Changes . . . Run From Others Farming is COOL AIR Retakes The Lead Why Is the University System Wrapped In a Blanket of Red Tape? Bad end to bright night See it on TV You Couldn't Ask For a Better Day in the Flint Hills And You Think You’ve Got It Bad Ohioans Vote in Favor of Issue 2 Got an EPA Permit? Avoiding Trouble with that E-mail In Box Best Laid Plans Hats Off to Gary Steinhardt and Company Europeans, Americans Face Hard Truths in Ag Policies One More Time: Relying on Foreign Supplies Is Not Good Tools Used To Last Several Lifetimes Ignorance Can Be Expensive Rains Delay Wheat Emergence Wet and Wild Get Rid of Livestock! Save The Planet! Unfavorable Harvest Weather! New Fuel Source Breakthrough Thinking Beyond the Current Year Bell Tolls on Georgia/Florida Tobacco They're Still Kids Inside the Blue Jackets Ford Runs Out Front Taking on the Animal Activists Older and, Hopefully, Wiser Beetles: A Bad Horror Movie Bad Boy LSV Shoots for Tax Credit and Outdoor Use Will it ever stop raining? Less than 10% of farms participate in ACRE program Facing the Issue Who Wants to Regulate and Shut Down CAFOs? Advances in Bioenergy Finally, Harvest Weather -- Until It Rains Again The Best Hayride Ever Imagine a 4-H Livestock Show with no Rules Biomass is Challenge and Opportunity This is no Winter Wonderland A Tough Harvest Winterization Can Prevent Cursing In the Spring Would You Try The Soil Pit Crawl? A Change for Microsoft COOL in the Frozen Food Isle Go Ford Cotton! Machinery Sales Slip in September Dairy Crisis: #1 Concern Car Buying Without Government Assistance Stewardship of the Past Involves Grasses Realistic Look at Long-Term Yield Goals Pre-Harvest Stress Congress Moves Forward New Bio-Security Lab U.S., Canada Unable to Resolve COOL Issues Cow Gas, More Corn, Health in Soybeans Cheaper Crop Insurance! Hey, Mr. Dean, Can I Get a Jump! Rush is on...Keep Safety in Mind Race to harvest Meet Buffalo Bill Soybean Market Moves With Weather Forecast Contradictions in Life Cycle Analysis and Cap & Trade Senate Climate Change Bill Lacks Ag Provisions Short Winter? Seed Trap A Trip to the Prairie Recalls Keep Coming Thick and Fast Planting Wheat in Trying Times Farmers fill out Top 10 Next Time You're In the Shop, Look Up My Engine! Knowledge Passed Down Through the Generations More Attacks Against Animal Ag Why 'Net Neutrality' is an Issue to Follow The Kids Just Get Younger and Younger Ford Retools Super Duty Truck Line Beware of Fred Whitford's Ball Bat Bring Back the 'Little' Combine? Asian Connection in the Corn Belt Measure Introduced to Prevent EPA from Implementing Indirect Land Use Rule The Vice President’s Luncheon Defying definition: the Sustainable Family Farm Chipping Away at Indirect Land Use Myths Climate Change Legislation May Get Delayed Keeping the Right Priorities On the Downhill Slide Kansas State Fair of 2009 is History The Coach Takes a Hit Fact-based Farce Puts Ag in Spotlight Seeing an Old Friend is Good for the Soul A Dakotan at Husker Harvest Days Industry in Transition? It's Fun to See What People are Noticing at Husker Harvest Days A Tale of Two Dealers Step Backwards Into Dairy Profitablity? Whew! One Show Down...Another This Week A True Farm Tech Pioneer You Are No Upton Sinclair, Sir Will the Environmental Protection Agency Clamp Down on Runoff? USDA Pleads With Media to Use H1N1 Name for Pandemic Influenza Cool Breeze and Hot Words at Kansas State Fair Dare To Do Demonstrations Live Keeping Perspective on Market Changes Harkin Will No Longer Head Senate Ag Committee Be Frugal With Your Tax Dollars Where Did the Ever-Worsening Grain Shortage Go? A checklist: Ways to Reconnect with Consumers Now Is Never A Good Time, But . . . Interesting Software Tips from High-Producing Growers Businessmen in Blue Jeans New leader in Individual Competition Energy Picture Still Full of Mixed Messages Northeast Crop Prospects Improve The Weather Was the Star of the Show The Return of the Scout Recycled Motor Oil Can Be Just as Good as New! Northern corn woes Tech Trend Questions Give Pause New Names in Top Ten Sanctions Approved in Brazil Cotton Case Standing on Other Side of Auction Ring Changes Perspective Senate Ag Committee Chairmanship Could See Changes Company Fills California Equipment Niche A Hundred Years Putting the Policy Cart Before the Science Horse Luck Is Watching Nature In the Country The Farm Progress Show Site Is Ready to Dazzle Visitors Showing a Profit Counts As a Win Productivity a Plus with New Tools Meet Ohio’s Conservation Farmers Being 'Cashed Out' By Clunky Thinking? Play Money Moves Smoother Risk Management Creeps into Field Day Machinery Launches Offer Fun, Information Indirect Land Use Model Undergoes Peer Review Putting a face on 'corporate' farming The Refuge Management Game Is Evolving Teaching Old Designs New Tricks As the Crow Flies Game Kicks Into High Gear This Miss America Much More Than a Title Fight for Ethanol Gets a New Weapon Don't Miss 'Defining Moments' Is ag facing a culture war? Farmer Spending Ramping Up Resources available for those considering to sign-up for ACRE Timing for Tech Purchases Makes Sense CSP sign-up begins today Meet 'Your Kind of People' Unique Promotion Definitely Got My Attention Tips from Texas Counting Down the Days A Blatant Waste of Your Resources and Mine Master Farmer Gathering Turns Into a Reunion Farm Labor Supply Surprising Tobacco Growers From Corn Yields to Prions The (Sweet Corn) Ears Have It House passes food safety bill with grain farm exemption A big party in Texas One Conservation Project at a Time What a Difference 30 Years Can Make Wolff Is Needed In Washington Living In the Country Affords Some Quiet Time Hay day fun Teams Revving Up For 2009-10 Game Not Starting from Square One Summer Meeting Circuit Is Full of Expert Advice Exciting Times Continue at County Fairs Development Beat Marches On New technologies for ag Form and Function Vilsack testifies that agriculture can benefit from climate change legislation Researchers Make Progress on Salt Tolerance A subsidy is a subsidy is a subsidy! What is a megafarm, really? County Fairs Still Hold Special Magic What's in a Domain Name? Aussie Travel Tour Continues This Has Nothing to Do with Farming The Caddy Speaks Part II Economic Aftershocks To Shake Agriculture Social Media Gets More Serious Pick Peanut Crackers Made in The United States Set Seven Extra Plates for Dinner Missouri River fishing story Remembering the Harvest Practices of Yesterday Organic Dairy Farmers Set for Symbolic Dumping of Milk Plan To Cancel Wind Farm No Big Surprise Applying Tech Everywhere Weather Pulls Crop Forward Unintended Consequences are Consequences Just the Same Battle Against 'Artificial' Hormones Misguided on Many Levels YouTube Therapy Judging the Cost of Overlap Can we feed hungry world without proven technology? Wheat Harvest Winding Down THIS is Our America! Aussie Trekers Travel Ohio Rumor Mill Fires Up Saving 'Private Sow?' House passes climate change bill My Carbon Footprint Grew To Sasquatch Size Finding the Humor in Honesty Slaughter Slashes Cull Prices The March to Cleaner Engines Continues Heavier Semis: A Good Idea? Show Me a Master Farmer Just Because They Haven't Come for Us, We Can't Be Complacent HSUS Considering a Referendum for Nov. 2010 It Truly Is a Small World After All 2009 Wheat Harvest Rolling Toward Memory Is Jim Hagemann A Polluter? Agriculture finds some middle ground in climate change bill Dealing with Animal Welfare Groups: It's Time to Get Proactive Crazy Animal Rights Tactics Lining Up with New Products Low Milk Prices Spurring Louder Protest Sign up for Market $ense Manage for healthy soybeans Individual Grit and Determination Still Work, Despite Being Out of Style It's All in the Details Wisdom of the fathers New Rendering Rule Is Classic Over Regulation Tough Start for Grain Crops What Frog Shortage? ACRE sign-up moved back until Aug. 14 New Way to Get Equipment Information Another Season to Forget in Indiana- So Far From Bobcat To Horseback Ohio's battle plan for animal activists Got An Idea For Bobcat? PETA Wants Your Help Emerging Details on Carbon Cap and Trade Disturbing What’s new at Bobcat Rain Keeps Wheat Harvest at Bay Court grants extension on Clean Water Acts Hay Expo Provides a Break From Corn Talk Company Offers Interesting Move for 2010 Vacation Time Not Without Pressure Not Like Your Father's Farm Equipment Dealership $400 a Ton Anhydrous? Worrying About Carbon Cap And Trade Greening of Ag is Just Beginning Global Warming -- Get Out Of Here Living Among My Ancestors Think Outside the Gate Planter Power Pays Big Time This Year Post crash thinking for a better world Farm Progress Show's Seed Technology Plots Ready for Emergence Catching a Sniff of Show Season Peterson unhappy with climate change bill Day Two ASABE Quarter Scale Tractor Competition (With Video) Time and 'Tech' Sure Have Changed Us Are You Ready to Rumble? Auditorium Full of Blue Jackets Inspirational There's More Than One Way to Use a Briggs & Stratton Engine! Steering Update: More Work Done as Weather Clears Buckeyes Sit at Carbon Table Oil Coolers are Cheap Insurance Against Frustration and Expensive Repairs Doggone It Trading punches over E15 Deals Abound, Market Wants your Business We’ve Got Nothing Over Mother Nature Don't Wait To Tune Up the Dryer USDA Doesn't Listen Steering Toward A Better Life Ag has concerns over cap-and-trade provisions Update - Indiana Lightbar User Gets More Experience Real Dairy Leaders Needed, Wanted Tractors Need Spring Cleaning Too Save a hog farmer, eat more pork Countdown to Harvest is Under Way A Week Without Rain? Reliving Old Memories Always Fun for Hoosiers Be Safe in the Rush to Plant Farm Equipment Sales Slide Caution: You May Own "Waters of the U.S." Fun With Faulstichs How We've Changed! When It Rains It Pours Swine Flu Episode Exposes Chinks in Communication Armor Interagency working group formed Recesson Smells of Ag Opportunity "Indirect Land Use charges:•bCrLf The next ethanol battleground EPA proposes anticipated RFS2 rule Obama Warms Me Up With Biofuel Talk It's that second you'd like to have to live over again Compromise Reached on Coal-Fired Plant for Sunflower Move on Auto Industry to Impact Ag? Don't Blame Ethanol Define Corporate Farm Lessons Learned From a Year Ago Pork Producers Respond to Flu Outbreak A Tax By Any Other Name Is Still a Tax Just As Flood Waters Recede, More Rain Is Coming All Farming Busts Loose More Evidence That Kansas State Is Right Location for NBAF Cotton Hits Break-Even Price Shop local at a chain near you Swine Flu Fallout Is Making Me Sick Back Up Electronic Data Before It's Too Late Flooding Hits Much of Kansas After Six Inches of Rain Field Update - Putting New Tech to Work Rush Limbaugh Becomes Spokesman for HSUS It Was a Great Day for a Wildfire! Ethanol victory, but the war goes on Making Time for Sunday Worship Tractor Drive Can Be Therapeutic If You Don't Tell Your Story, No One Will Activists Looking at Fungicide? Why the First Lady Will Appreciate Farmers Changing of the Guard A Swiss View On Animal Rights Fieldwork and floods Big Green Makes Reorganization News Has Obama been good for Ag? Jimmy Cheney wasn't with us long enough Dump Poor Customer Service Providers! Blessings Don't Always Arrive at Convenient Times Handling Planting Season Phone Calls Senators introduce ethanol pipeline legislation The Proof is in the Rust on the Plow Council Encourages Producers to Become Animal Activists Snow Flurries in April No Surprise Criticism Cresting Is My America the Same as Uncle Sam's? Tomorrow's Farmers Have a Lot on Their Minds Online Parts Ordering in Your Future? Senate passes death tax amendment A "Busted" 4-H Story and The Technology Explosion Adversity Could Bring Opportunity USDA extends ACRE sign-up by 10 weeks Backyard Food Supplies Pride After the Fall Goodbye, Corn-man USDA and IRS want to collaborate on policing farm payments A Penny For Your Thoughts? Finding Some Predictability in Diesel Prices A Miserable 24 Hours Welfare of Animals Comes First as Blizzard Rages Adversity Brings Opportunity Not Nuts about Preconceived Notions Learning the Lightbar Radio Commercial Strikes a Scary Note "It's Only a Little Leak," said the Captain of the Titanic Flood Fight On the Red Sen. Voinovich talks Agriculture A Reason To Smile Nurse Practitioners: A Modern Solution to a Nagging Problem Alliances Open Doors to Interesting Ideas Concern over land use calculations continue Food Contamination Has Simple Answer Losing Our Ever-Loving Minds in the Name of Safety Dan's Inflation Market Basket Budget Squeeze Hits State Ag Agencies Managing for higher yields The Minimum Wage Myth Farmers' Thoughts Turn Toward Spring Weather Don't Miss an Opportunity Ag Producers Speak One Language Congress' Common Sense is MIA Conservation Easements Create Jobs? Take That, Animal Rights Activists Making a Combine Statement Are You a Rich Farmer? USDA announces start of economic stimulus funding Planning to Stay Ahead Follow South Dakota’s Lead On Ethanol Winding down in Hong Kong "China will be the last to fail•bCrLf Farm Support For Coal Plants Is No Mystery Ethanol groups request higher ethanol blending level China now king of grain processing world How Do We Get The Bidding Started? The Rush of Spring...is Coming Abandoned Horse Web Site Draws Attention to Lack of Slaughter Chinese agriculture is woefully inadequate How trade with China happens Focus, Mr. President, Focus on Goal #1 Don't Worry Be Happy How to feed, manage 1.3 billion people Two Sides of the Animal 'Coin' in Indiana Some Good News to Season the Bad Not Better Than Tractors First impressions: Beijing is big, proud and smoggy Obama's call for farm subsidy cuts unwelcome in Congress Record Deer Season Not Enough Farmer Panel Offers Insight Buy Cotton Options Now Food Safety Can Be Simple Fertilizer Report #1 Jet BioFuel About to Take Off Ready to Introduce New Master Farmers The view from China Sometimes the World is Still Smaller than You Think Do Fungicides Cause Physiological Responses? You CAN use less energy ND Again Eyes Cuban Market Shrinking Our Excesses Would Be Good Is Ohio the Next Target for Animal Rights Extremists? Midwest Power Shift Pioneer Seeks a Mighty Wind Utility Vehicle Makes a Stretch Stretching Out to Cover More Acres Horses: The last untapped source of protein on the North American continent Big Planter Captures Imagination Flexible, Maneuverable and BIG! Return of an Icon? Is It Spring Yet? Peanut Recall Gets More Confusing Farm Economy Worries Rise Stimulus package provides funds for rural America Agriculture: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon Thank You Mr. Lincoln Speak up for Peanut Producers The changing of the seasons can be violent Some disturbing news Farm Bureau Talks Budget Acre shifters: What factors impact last minute planting decisions? Where did the money go? Where is the National Peanut Board? Farm Show Ahead...Excitement to Follow Payment limitation booklet available online Where Meat Comes From, It's Not Science Fiction Peanut Math Doesn't Add Up Are payment limits unfair? The Law of Gravity Has NOT Been Repealed More Funds and More Time to Apply for EQIP Is Welcome News AGCO launches new tractor lines Power Show Must Go On Passages Meeting the 2009 Masters If Snow Keeps Coming, Winter Could Get Really Ugly Why Uncle Sam's Getting Involved THIS is America! Line Between Life and Death Is Mighty Fine Why •Buy American' is a bad idea Telling Agriculture's Story Is An Important Job A Truly Inconvenient Truth No-Till on the Plains Draws Large Turnout Out of the Mouths of Babes Different Subject/Same Argument What a Difference Six Months Makes We Will Survive Keeping in Touch - Getting Easier Deep in the Bear Pit, hope reigns supreme Grandma’s Sugar Crème Pie After the Flood An RX for Tough Times USDA extends comment period on payment limitation rules Maybe Legislators Eat Too Much Pie Shivering through the inauguration Land Prices Are Softening? How Quickly Fortunes Change Vilsack quickly confirmed once Obama assumes helm Get an Obama Invite? Compliance, Enforcement of New EPA Rules Problematic Finally, A Smart President Cold Is Relative After All Caring for a Key Asset More Than Just Another Award Wake Up NCBA, It Wasn't Ethanol Population Rates: the Devil's in the Details A real life Valkyrie It's Official: A Lot of People Did Not Plant Wheat Bumpy Ride Ahead? Never Out Grow Your Need to Learn Good News and Bad News A Dose of Reality Needs to Set In Playing chicken with fertilizer Smooth confirmation expected for Vilsack Buy Ahead! Now's the Time! You Can’t Take Indiana Out of a Hoosier Lists, Lists and More Lists USDA to Investigate Soybean Checkoff Allegations Welcome A New Forum for Your Thoughts The Birds Know Starting Out Fresh? Where Will The Market Go? Picking High Yields in San Antonio After Dinner Discussions Obama less left than originally feared The Last Time We Touched . . . Time to Take a Deep Breath What I Learned This Christmas Global warming: Is the sky really falling? Not Ready for their Close-up Finally more details on ACRE released My New Year's Resolution Last Chance for Tax Savings Obama nominates 'pro-trade' Ron Kirk to lead USTR Why do we need foreign workers? Find Used Equipment Fast Top energy and environmental posts named Vilsack named new ag secretary Finding Inspiration During the Winter Months Kick-start the Economy -- Now ASA vs USB: Did anyone see this coming? Don't POP cotton We could use a Southerner at USDA Company Move Aimed at Matching Machines to Markets Two ag secretary potentials work to the top Farming and Inventing Go Hand in Hand Exercise Your Financial Health Big Food: Nowhere to hide Christmas Tunes Future Electronics Get Push Our Economic Health Must Come First Bobbing for Nickels Obama targets farm payments in financial mess Stop Feeding the 'Monster' Is an FFV Mandate the Answer to Foreign Oil Dependence? APH or CRC? From Dust to Dust Maximizing that Capacity States also see growing Democratic control after elections Fresh From Florida "Toms" top next ag secretary list Heading into 'Crazy Season' All About Corn (Well, Almost) Machinery Sales Demand to Continue? Finding the Next Best Thing Reader Calls to Discuss Premise Registration Obama improved Democratic presence in rural areas Tight credit, poor prices keep grain out of export channels The Scariest Part of November 4 Was . . . Emerson Nafziger Attempts to Replicate Kip Cullers' Soybean Yield Prop 2 Swings the Door Open Big-Rig Pickup? President Obama: Good for agriculture? Agriculture welcomes Obama as new president Democracy Prevailed Ahh, It's Almost Over! Really? Only Half Done With Corn? Election only days away Seed Selection Boosts Yield Share Ag's Good Financial News Getting attention in Congress The Tigers Woods of Presidential Hopefuls Putting Things In Perspective My Mind's Made Up! How Are You Capitalizing on Cheap Diesel? Candidates differ on ag subsidies Moving Ahead with Buying Plans Good News You Can Use When a Hobby Becomes an Obsession Like Deer, Questions Come in All Sizes Making the U.S. Industrial Case Keeping Ag Out of the Eye of the Financial Storm Sun sets on Sunbelt Presidential candidates on tax policy Happy To Be Here High Profile Pigs Year of the Utility Tractor? Campaigning to Lose Congress wraps up loose ends Montgomery County Farmers Continue to Fight Against Longwall Miners Exploring New Cotton Technology Here's What I've Heard Regarding Fertilizer Prices Transportation efficiency: It's your business Congress approves farm bill fixes No Lipstick on These Pigs Bigger, Faster, Oh My Game Over Where is the Truth? As if Politicians Weren't Already Confused Going Electric? Chrysler Makes a Statement Toyota Pushes Full-Size Truck Line into the Farming Segment McCain ahead in rural swing states St. Louis: It's No Chicago Biofuel: What's now -- and not! House approves speculation limiting bill Equipment Availability and Brand Loyalty Collide Will $1 Buy Cotton Acres? Energy package goes to floor today What happened in Week 14? Losses Overwhelming Ever Since 9-11 ACRE implementation causing concern Lucky Time at a Farm Show Is It Just Me, Or Was August Ridiculously Cool? Capital Overtakes Elephants Saying Not Goodbye, But See Ya Later Another Crop Rally Coming? Agriculture Heats Up Local Politics Loss to Profit Chasm Widens Define Trade Distorting It's an Elephant Market A Precision Change? Agronomy Day: A Great Way to Catch Up on the Latest Research Are you SURE on farm bill disaster program? Good News Keeps on Coming Put cash on the table, then we'll talk Biodiesel survey reveals consumer good will New at Boone! Farm Progress Show opens with a bang Holding On Pays Dividends Weed Management and Refuge Planting: One in the Same? Facts in Plain Sight Packing for the Big Show Key Reversal Takes Toll Key Reversal Takes Toll Supply, Demand and Early Frost Farm bill questions? Marketing Scam or Cause for Concern Savor the South Hat's Off to the Thinking Farmer Ramping up for 'Fieldwork' Downed Corn Along the Road Past Grain's Peak; Now What? Cheaper Food to Come CRP: Hold or Fold? Hat's Off to the Thinking Farmer Fool Me Over and Over Again Who needs Doha? An ethanol victory (for once) Ethanol industry support maintained Diversity Drives the Land of Lincoln Stout Hearts; Deep Pockets AIR Takes Flight Grain exports through a farmers' eyes Doha hopes sizzle away again USDA: Penalties remain in place for existing CRP contracts Class Without Cash Judge Limits CRP Grazing Market on Slippery Slope Greed Alters Profit Opportunities Markets Shake Up Standings Judge Limits CRP Grazing Ideal Weather Clouds Markets Go Southern Farmers! The Port: Firing on all cylinders Tax Provision Tweaks in This Year's Farm Bill Buy-in to get covered under new disaster assistance programs Worn Out on Wheat Rural Vote Up for Grabs Wherewithal Limits Gains Key Ag Issues Hinge on Fall Elections Go Long for Profit Wheat Warrior Anticipates Cotton Move Bin building boom continues World food policies must change — including our own Farm Bill Implementation Underway Wild Ride Dips Teams in Red Farm Moves don't Match Game Play Manage Price Decisions Markets Offer Wild Ride Only Two Teams are in the Black Revisiting ethanol mandates Ford Down, But Not Out Full farm bill finally becomes law Hedge Farm Profits in the Market AIR Team Takes an Early Lead "This growing season sucks" Climate bill hits ag's bottom line Animosity Over ACRE First Impressions Farm bill limbo Revenue-based program offers protection against low prices and/or yields Teams Warm up for FACTsim! Suderman Weighs in on Corn Crop Would farmers back Barack? USDA, farm groups slam anti-biofuel campaign Take Stock in Inputs Farm bill becomes law, almost entirely Clerical error sends farm bill into limbo Managing for 300-bu. corn (part two) President officially vetoes farm bill Congress sends farm bill to White House Managing for 300-bu. corn (part one) House passes farm bill by veto proof margin Grocers target biofuels, with Big Oil's help Bush unhappy with lack of reform, budget gimmicks Let the Games Begin! President Bush veto threat still stands Go vegan? A billion or so Chinese would disagree Farm bill negotiators lower payment limits Big Oil: Laughing all the way to the bank Conference continues, extending again 2002 farm bill How do countries manipulate their farm economies? Let's count the ways Maybe we've finally got a deal• Are we feeding the fuel tank but starving the world? President calls for one year farm bill extension One more week to settle out tax credit differences Agreement made on three titles, tax breaks stall talks One-week extension in the works Farm bill conference starts off on rough patch When Will Corn Belt Dry Out? House conferees named•ball is finally rolling Final farm bill still up in the air Auto steer and auto swath: Worth the money? Why farmers outsource Direct payments on the chopping block Paying a price for prosperity Disaster program bogs down farm bill President grants one more month Be careful out there! Fight over who controls the money Farm Bill: Chance for reform ticking away Administration keeps fighting for reforms Revenue assurance still on the table Cleaning the desk! (part one) Senate, House work on farm bill compromise Even Jaws loves biodiesel Framework deal offers glimpse of hope in farm bill negotiations Biodiesel plants won't gain much from mandate Bush reiterates farm bill veto threat More biodiesel... from less soy oil Welcome to the biodiesel rock concert Biodiesel industry may look for cheaper feedstock Schafer's first week as ag secretary Despite Demand, same old European trade mentality Hold-up on Schafer confirmation It's profit in any language British food prices up 12% Farm Bill Dominates Farm Bureau Convention Discussion Beware! Farm Bill Changes Ahead Anhydrous prices have farmers hopping mad Finalized energy bill gives needed boost for 2008 Mystery surrounds •world demand' for fertilizer Farm Bill failure fuels anti-ag campaign No real reform in Senate passed farm bill Senate gets deep into farm bill amendments Biofuel battle: Fact and fiction New ag secretary looks to be nothing more than an administrator Chief economist says goodbye High input costs enrage farmers Are the Republicans out to sabotage the farm bill? Politics fly in potential farm bill extension The business-as-usual Farm Bill Congress finally passes WRDA U.S. beef is back - on European shelves 2008 Farm Bill? Wanted: Fiscally Sound Farm Bill Administration issues veto threat on Senate farm bill version Floor fight expected on revenue option New ag secretary surprises many Senate ag committee approves farm bill Senate farm bill markup underway Ethanol plant margins get thinner Ethanol opponents duke it out Senate ag committee set to begin debate Wednesday Can you eat a tree for breakfast? WTO: Will U.S. Congress reject any new deal? Is a permanent disaster fund really the solution? Mike Johanns listened WRDA finally approved, Presidential veto looms Japan's farmers face uphill struggle Japan's ag policies difficult to digest Johanns resigns from USDA post Senate wrangles over farm bill funding Japan's jittery consumers need a little faith in science Time to build liquidity? Time to build liquidity? See how farm bill proposals pay A great time to be a farmer WTO takes August to regroup Harkin releases commodity title draft Why on-farm storage pays Growing Degree Days: leading to record yields? Farm bill expiration not a concern Bumper crop ahead? A look at revenue assurance House passes farm bill with tax provision included Partisan fires fuel over farm bill Peterson threatens pulling bill if Kind-Flake amendment adopted Johanns issues presidential veto threat Groups welcome House farm bill House Ag Committee finalizes farm bill Payment limits tightened, farm bill hearings continue Congress wrangles with farm bill While I was out• President Signs Disaster Bill Into Law Legislative Roundup: New bills introduced on Capitol Hill Johanns Delivers Draft Farm Bill Legislation House passes WRDA, White House not supportive Wild planting season ahead Finally EPA makes RFS law, so what! Biofuels lovefest continues Free trade activity heats up Budget battle won't hurt farm bill How to step out of the •production trap' First Payment Limit Attempt Made The end of •cheap' food First Farm Bill Debate Begins With Budget Markup NCGA Gives Revenue Assurance Second Look The Tigers Woods of Presidential hopefuls Doha Deal Not Imminent, But Hope Exists Happy days in stormy Tampa Canada's colorful farm management guru The world according to Lowell Catlett Two Farm Bill Debates - The First is Increasing the Baseline Low-lin soybeans looking for more acres Does the Budget Cut It? Vultures circle around ethanol Johanns Calls for Farm Bill Change - But Only Minimal Congress Tepid on Farm Bill Proposals 10 million more corn acres coming Bush Pushes Biofuels in State of the Union Budding biofuel business in Germany German farmer saves thousands on home-grown energy German farm fueled by rapeseed oil A bumpy ride ahead for Farm Bill Why biodiesel is the next boom Ethanol Has Banner Year in 2006 The CEO farmer of tomorrow Building spreadsheets that work on your farm Expect Less Money in Farm Bill Commodity Title A passion for planning Senate Denies Ag Disaster Aid CRP Won't Be Ethanol Factor in 2007 Ethanol investors: Make sure it's business first Fixed costs, farm bill speakers added to Management Summit CSP Will Continue, But Don't Bet The Farm On True National Program Will biofuels free us from subsidies? New Democrats More Conservative, But Not on Energy, Environment Ag Issues Take Back Seat to Urban-focused Issues Continuous corn may need biotech boost Democrats Take Full Leadership In Writing Next Year's Farm Bill Dems Take Over House, Senate Still Up for Grabs GOP Burns Loses Senate Seat Is Change What U.S. Agriculture Needs? Farm equipment makers see slowdown in 2007 Moving beyond corn-based ethanol Texas oil man cheers for ethanol ADM's new CEO heralds bio boom Are you subject to FDA's bioterrorism rules? Oil change should be voluntary Johanns Wants New Farm Bill Will you plant more corn next year? Live and in living color: The next generation of biotech wonders Let's get a little mud on the tires! More than a free lunch at this field day Meet a Specialty Crop Warrior Back to the future with closed-loop farming Start planning now for 2007 "We're eliminating the middleman" The biofuel revolution Rail companies anticipate grain market needs Corn piles ahead? Joining the hay burner fraternity Meet me in St. Louis! Food, then and now - a world apart Low-lin Soybeans Face Yield Drag Debate Low-linolenic soybeans take center stage Life of a farmhouse Trade's cleanup hitter gets benched The world according to Flinchbaugh: "The federal budget is irrelevant to the farm bill" World's largest indoor cornfield The coming crop rotation war Land prices headed for a fall? Six factors to watch Part two: More tips for a smooth farm transition Smooth transition: The right way to bring young farmers into the fold The heart of Andy Markwart Inside the mind of the European farmer Alexander Graham Bell would be amazed Why care about farm exports? Pumped up land prices hurt future farmers Do you know your magic number? U.S. subsidies at risk Show time with Max and Orion The cloudy future for trade talks What farmers say about WTO WTO: Sound and fury, little else Pepper spray and riot gear WTO: This is what deadlock looks like And now, on to Hong Kong How much money does the average farm spend on Diesel Fuel in a year? RE: When do farmers get vacation time? When do farmers get vacation time? Obama and czar cut water for irragation and thus destroyed much food Sweetener Is Safe For Your Sweetheart This Valentine's Day Afternoon Recap by Arlan Suderman Morning Call by Bryce Knorr Livestock Call By John Otte Senate Jobs Bill Would Benefit Agriculture Administration Looking at Older Meat Animals R-CALF Resolutions to Go To Membership R-CALF Resolutions to Go To Membership Earthquake Awareness Promoted Clearing Up Misconceptions About Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture Clearing Up Misconceptions About Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture Consider variety choices for top yields U-M Libraries to Digitize Norman Borlaug Papers Baseline Projections for Agriculture Released by USDA Federal Government Shut Down by Storms Report Focuses on Health Care Reform Sequencing May Aid in Producing Biofuel Crops Cooperatives to Tell Their Story Topcon Introduces System 250 Hot Start CTM Takes Chill Off Bolt-on ATV Traction Minnesota Farmers Union Sets 2010 Legislative Priorities Gators Get a Makeover NBB CEO Believes RFS2 a Great Catalyst for Biodiesel Industry Presidential Task Force on Child Obesity Formed House Ag Committee Holds Hearing on Cap and Trade Cyst Nematode Resistant Soybean Line Developed Prepare for Farm Operation Tax Appointment Massey Ferguson Offers new HD Series Utility Tractor USDA Gives New Plan for Livestock ID Plan Now to Attend the Hay Expo President Calls for Health Care Summit R-CALF USA Proclaims Major Victory Pork Industry Objective Unaffected Pork Industry Objective Unaffected GM Supports B20 Biodiesel Will Have Momentum as Year Continues State Plans Invasive Pest Training Estate Tax Rider in Bill Financial Reform in Jeopardy USDA Agricultural Projections to Be Released Nation's Sorghum Producers in Washington USDA Reviewing Government Food Programs Monsanto Company Receives Approval for New Acetochlor Herbicide Formulation Peterson Seeks to Stop EPA From Regulating GHG BASF Launches Headline Fungicide Training Module Republicans Call for Estate Tax Legislation Support Children's Health Insurance Program Grows Pork Forum Held Next Month Pork Forum Held Next Month Incorrect Calculations of Indirect Land Use Provides Ammunition for Corn-Based Ethanol House Ag Chair Already Looking Ahead to Next Farm Bill Sign-up Begins for Grasslands Reserve Program Matching Nutrition to Cow Type NCGA Focuses on Tax Proposals Veal Industry Adopts Guidelines Veal Industry Adopts Guidelines Organic Survey Results Reported Study of Biodiesel Issued EPA Issues RFS Rules President Talks Biofuels With Governors Yamaha Shipping 2011 Rhinos For Summer Delivery NCFC Concerned by Justice Attempt to End Antitrust Exemption Farm Land Values Increase Slightly Valley Will Offer Variable Rate Irrigation Reaction to Proposed Budget Continues Funds Go to Animal Agriculture Research Funds Go to Animal Agriculture Research Researchers Find New Barley Breeding Techniques Evening News Focuses on Antimicrobials Evening News Focuses on Antimicrobials USDA'S NASS Taking ARMS Survey Grassley Anticipates Senate Work on Biodiesel Tax Credit Will Start Soon EQIP Funds Available to Minnesota Producers Animal Activists Counterattack in Ohio Animal Activists Counterattack in Ohio Propane Group Offers Incentives to Buy/Test New Propane Equipment Proposed Budget for FY 2011 Sent to Congress Rural America Impacted by EPA Budget Transparent Health Care Bill Pushed by Republicans New Cattlemen's Beef Board Chair Speaks Out New Cattlemen's Beef Board Chair Speaks Out U.S Wheat Producers Benefit From Promotions Webinar Replay: Changing Role of Retailers and Dealers Explored Three MCR&PC Seats to Be Filled in 2010 Fewer Disorders in Poultry Confirmed Fewer Disorders in Poultry Confirmed Need for Labeling of Mechanically Tenderized Meat President Dedicating Cap-and-Trade Dollars Chorus of Praise for Trade and Export Remarks in State of Union USDA Purchasing Products for Nutrition Programs Minnesota Pheasants Forever Recognizes County, Individual Work Corn Specialist Seeks Clues for Surprising Corn Harvest Government Purchasing Dry Edible Beans for Haiti Reaction to State of the Union Address Small Steps on Health Care Planned in House USDA Issues First NE3 Designation Lincoln Recognized by Wheat Industry ATVs Make Work Fun for Horse Owners Capello Corn Heads Now Available in U.S. Horsch Introduces Cougar Planting System Yamaha Offers "Starting Power" Backup Generator New Holland Offers High Clearance Tractor for Specialty Crops R-CALF USA Questions Beef Checkoff Direction R-CALF USA Questions Beef Checkoff Direction Administration Rephrasing Cap-and-Trade Montana Beef Processing Plants to Open Montana Beef Processing Plants to Open Final Call to Sign Up for Pipestone Lamb and Wool Winter Course Senate Rejects Budget Commission Obama Wants Spending Freeze Carcass Irradiation Not Moving Within USDA Carcass Irradiation Not Moving Within USDA House Leader Speaks on Smaller Health Care Bill Cardona Appointed to Pomeroy Chair in Avian Medicine Vote on Deficit-Reduction Panel Expected Tuesday Organizations Concerned with Reinsurance Agreement Dean Foods Purchase Being Challenged Monsanto Receives Mexican Import Approval New Bioproducts Web Site Introduced Italian Sausage Products Recalled USDA Awards $4 Million in Recovery Act Funding Study Shows Pork Safe After Pigs Exposed to H1N1 Virus Study Shows Pork Safe After Pigs Exposed to H1N1 Virus Tyson Shifting Some Production South Tyson Shifting Some Production South Wind Could Power Portion of Eastern Grid EPA Rejects Confidential Business Information Excuse ARRA Funds to Support Rural Businesses Precinct Caucuses Are Feb. 2 Ask Seedsmen Lots of Questions This Year Non Ag Groups Interested in Cap-and-Trade Regulations FSA Offering Web-Based Payment Calculator Renewable Fuels Adopted by Navy and Marine Corps 2010 Looks to Be Slow for Equipment Sales. Producers and Citizens Encouraged to Attend Clean Water Listening Sessions Sioux City Hog Processing Facility Closing Sioux City Hog Processing Facility Closing RMA Urged Not to Cut Crop Insurance Brown Becomes 41st Republican Senator Alaska Senator Wants to Stop EPA from Regulating GHG Portable Slaughter Facilities Have Economic Potential Portable Slaughter Facilities Have Economic Potential NCGA Opposes House Cap-and-Trade Pheasants Forever Adds Helping Hand to Minnesota's Conservation Plan Webinar Replay: Changing Role of Retailers and Dealers Explored NFU Pleas for Haitian Support Broader Swine Disease Surveillance Program Sought Broader Swine Disease Surveillance Program Sought Senate Health Care Bill is Better Than Nothing Pest Detection Dollars Now Available Company Recalls Ground Beef Company Recalls Ground Beef HSUS Targets Restaurant Chains Growth Energy CEO Speaks Out on Renewable Fuels Tyson Settlement Approved Tyson Settlement Approved CHS Foundation Doubles High School Scholarship Funding Commodity Classic Early Registration Discount Ends January 20 Monsanto Scores a Pair of Favorable Court Decision Crunch Time for Health Care Reform Bison Meat and Producers in High Demand Bison Meat and Producers in High Demand Position Limits Supported by NFU 25X25 Wants Biodiesel Incentive Package Passed Consideration Continues on Financial System Reform NACD Gains New Leader ARRA Broadband Funds Announced 2010 Minnesota Forage Days in Early February Farm Bureau Reports Marketbasket Survey Results U.S. Food Being Sent to Haiti Health Care Bill Being Readied Obama Administration Meeting With Russia This Week Obama Administration Meeting With Russia This Week Expanding Opportunities for Corn Growers Key Focus of Ethanol Committee Pawlenty Requests Ag Disaster Declaration USDA Joins Fuel Up to Play 60 Campaign Environment vs. Genetics in 2009 USB Chairman Looks at 2010 with Great Optimism Justice Wants Monsanto Trait Information NCGA Policy Being Formed This Week Animal ID Principles Sent to Congress Animal ID Principles Sent to Congress Research Focuses on Potential Problems Feeding DDGS Research Focuses on Potential Problems Feeding DDGS John Deere Risk Protection Ties Crop Insurance to Equipment Used We Burn Some Wire with Lincoln's New PowerMIG 216 Product Ideas for Keeping your Horse Drinking Water in Winter Crustbuster Unveils Trio of New Drills Like Chaff In The Wind Sta-bil Now Available for Diesel Fuel Fold It Up For Easy Transport Study Claims Ethanol is Crowding Out Wildlife Pomeroy Strives to Halt EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases AFBF Delegates take Action and Hold Reelection California Board Approves Low Carbon Fuels Standard Tyson Suit Settled Tyson Suit Settled Western Corn Rootworm Will Survive on Miscanthus New AD 2 Technology From Firestone USDA Looking for Changes in Crop Numbers Farm Bureau Delegates Send Strong Climate Message Farmers Telling Ag's Story Online Farmers Telling Ag's Story Online Beef Cattle Prices May Rise This Year as Herd Shrinks Beef Cattle Prices May Rise This Year as Herd Shrinks Report Confirms Production Demand Can Be Met Report Confirms Production Demand Can Be Met Illinois Farmer Inventor Wins Top Farm Bureau Award HSUS is Using Religion to its Advantage HSUS is Using Religion to its Advantage Collegiate Ag Leadership Program Available Stenholm: Political System Absolutely Broken Highlights from Day One at American Farm Bureau Annual Meeting Horner Challenges Climate Change Data Afghan Farmers Receiving Help from Several Government Agencies Farm Bureau President Tells Critics: Circumstances Have Changed Funds to Benefit Clean Energy Manufacturing CFTC Chairman Calls for Regulations Legislation Would Stop EPA Regulation Implementation Organization Questions HSUS Status as Nonprofit I-29 Dairy Conference Helps Sustain Dairy Families And Farms I-29 Dairy Conference Helps Sustain Dairy Families And Farms High Powered Lineup for AFBF Annual Meeting in Seattle Annual USDA Outlook Forum Set Two Key Programs Supporting Livestock Producers Slaughter Calls Russian Ban a Wake-up Call Auto Maker Keynoting National Ethanol Conference Pork Board to Meet in Ohio Pork Board to Meet in Ohio BWSR, NRCS Sign Agreement to Improve Wetland Program Coordination U-M Professor Honored With MCIA's Achievement Award Pulsar Herbicide Registered for Use in Wheat, Barley Syngenta Announces Licensing Agreements Two Senate Democrats Stepping Down NFU Has Goals for Health Care Reform Health Care Reform Awaits Compromise Companion School Food Safety Bill Introduced Veal and Lamb Merger Announced Veal and Lamb Merger Announced Dairy Advisory Committee Announced Dairy Advisory Committee Announced Minnesota Pork Congress Set for January 20-21. Monsanto Annual Research and Development Pipeline Updat Cargill Testing E. Coli Vaccine Cargill Testing E. Coli Vaccine Westchester Group Scholarship Offered Senators Speak Out Against Taiwan Move Senators Speak Out Against Taiwan Move Wheat Council Seeks Check-Off Increase USDA, USTR Disappointed in Taiwan Legislative Decision USDA, USTR Disappointed in Taiwan Legislative Decision Louisiana Ag Commissioner Warns of Far-Reaching Carbon Laws Vilsack Wants Another Look at Climate Models Constitutionality of Health Care Reform Being Questioned Next Track of Health Care Uncertain CCC Rate Announced for January Remove Excessive Snow Loads with Extreme Caution SURE Program Sign-Up Begins Monday Agreement Reached on Producer Information USDA Redefines the Term 'Actively Engaged' Pilgrim's Pride Settles With Government Growth Energy Responds to Proposed Regulation Hog Economist Retires from Univeristy of Missouri-Columbia Hog Economist Retires from Univeristy of Missouri-Columbia State's Sunflower Growers Approve First Check-Off Farmers Need to Check for Skin Cancer USDA Program Offers Support for Solutions Reaction to Potential Taiwan Beef Restrictions Reaction to Potential Taiwan Beef Restrictions SURE Sign Up Begins Next Week Ban of Chlorine Treated Poultry Implemented by Russia Ban of Chlorine Treated Poultry Implemented by Russia HSUS Petition Drive Begins in Missouri HSUS Petition Drive Begins in Missouri Syngenta Buys Potatoes to Feed Hungry Corn Board Nominations Sought New State Laws Effective Jan. 1, 2010 Governor Reappoints Duncanson to Environmental Quality Board AMI Defends Mechanical Tenderization AMI Defends Mechanical Tenderization Taiwan to Restart Beef Ban California Fuel Rules Called Illegal Water, Environmental Project Grants Announced U-M Crops Days January 13-15 Soybean Rust Program Retooled for 2010 SURE Program Up and Running Agrium Clears FTC Hurdle Congresswoman Calls for Labels After Latest Recall Time Running Out for Biodiesel Credit New Bovine TB Positive Deer Confirmed Renewable Fuel Rules Could be Published Soon Agency Says Public Should Know Chemical Inert Ingredients Leadership Named for Senate Ag Subcommittees Funding Available for Sustainable Agriculture Projects Questions After a Tough Year Minnesota FFA Hall of Fame Announces Nomination Process for 2010 Christmas Eve Action Aims to Stop EPA Moves Christmas Eve Action Aims to Stop EPA Moves Christmas Eve Vote by Senate Moves Healthcare Changes Forward Minnesota Pork Leadership Elected at Annual Meetings Minnesota Pork Leadership Elected at Annual Meetings National Energy Lab Working With Sorghum High Tunnels to Be Researched Pfizer H1N1 Vaccine Approved Pfizer H1N1 Vaccine Approved Pfizer H1N1 Vaccine Approved Census of Horticulture Underway Health Care Vote Thursday Morning Hawkeye Renewables Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy RFS Information Inadequate NCBA Supports Interstate Shipments Survey Results of Soybean Farmers Reported Canada's Sow Reduction Numbers Reported Vaccines Developed for E-Coli in Calves Vaccines Developed for E-Coli in Calves NCBA Facing Structural Change Sign up for Snowmobile Safety Classes Now New Pork and Poultry Quotas Set by Russia New Pork and Poultry Quotas Set by Russia Launch of South Korean Burger a Success Launch of South Korean Burger a Success Potash Prices to Rise NCGA Begins Podcast Series Closed-Loop Beef Operation Planned for New York State Closed-Loop Beef Operation Planned for New York State FSIS Seeks Meat Labeling Changes RFA Wants California's New Fuels Standard Stopped Corn Storage Tips Offered Essay Contest Open to Students Minnesota's November Milk Output up 1.1% Minnesota's November Milk Output up 1.1% Weakened Climate Change Agreement Reached Senate Reaches Agreement on Health Care Reform Climate Legislation Can Benefit Farmers and Ranchers USDA Purchasing Cheese USDA Purchasing Cheese Court of Appeals Sides With Packer Court of Appeals Sides With Packer National Corn Yield Contest Winners Announced Immigration Reform Legislation Introduced Stay Off Thin Ice! Get Organized With Cable Caddy Yetter Works on Compatibility Follow the Narrow Way Narrow-Pulling Air Drill Another New Name in the Seed Business RR Alfalfa Up For Comment -- Again USDA Announces New Restrictions on Emergency Dairy Aid President Speaks in Copenhagen Clark Warns Against Continuing Oil Imports Pressure Mounting on Health Care Reform Broadband Developmental Funds Released Forest Service Developing New Plan More Members of Congress Step Forward on EPA Resolution of Disapproval Maintain High-Quality Silage in Storage Average Value of Iowa Farmland Declines By 2% In 2009 Dairy Financial Aid Being Offered Dairy Financial Aid Being Offered Health Care Reform Struggling Estate Tax Extension Blocked Greenhouse Gas Alliance Formed Judge says Poultry Litter Not Solid Waste More Than 20,000 Acres Secured for Community Wind Project Lieberman Leaning Toward Health Care Bill Estate Tax Exemption in Question Dairy Producers Pledge to Reduce Emissions Disapproval Resolution Announced Against EPA Biodiesel Action Alert Issued CHS Delegates Elect Six Directors Dow AgroSciences Submits New Soybean Herbicide Tolerance Trait for USDA Review MDA invites Farmers to Redwood Falls Listening Session Monsanto Offers Six New Cotton Varieties U.S. Releases Climate Overview Alternative Cap-and-Trade Program Presented Trade With Cuba Will Be Easier Financial Regulatory Overhaul Bill Passes House NCGA to Release Yield Contest Results Medicare Eligibility Expansion Receives Key Support NASS Changing Hogs and Pigs Reporting Ranges USMEF Review Shows Positive Meat Trends USMEF Review Shows Positive Meat Trends USDA to Lobby Lawmakers with School Food Access to India Markets a Problem Basic Rules Still Apply When Buying Seed Hansons named Outstanding Conservationists Financial Reform Bill Vote on Friday Food Safety Group Recomendation Implemented House Passes Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension Health Bill Vote Possible Before Christmas Framework for Energy Legislation Released Great Lakes Hybrids to Offer New and Expanded Seed Technologies Russia Threatens to Close Border to U.S. Pork Apply Now for Farm Business Management Scholarships 2009 A Green Year for Farm Progress Show BASF Unveils Seed Treatment Web Site NCGA Scholarship Deadline Near Biofuels Reducing World Wide GHG Emissions Advocacy and Outreach Office Opens Coalition Backs Pump Tax Rollback Basf Plant Science, Monsanto Enter Into Agreement For Nutridense Tips For Livestock Farmers To Prepare For Winter Storms Tips For Livestock Farmers To Prepare For Winter Storms Climate Change Conference Ready to Get Serious More Groups React Negatively to EPA Declaration More Groups React Negatively to EPA Declaration Expert Offers Tax Planning Tips Ag Groups File Brief in Alfalfa Case MFU: 'No' to Southern Rail Corridor Vilsack Announces Funding to Fight Bark Beetles Ag Leader Introduces New Precision Agriculture Tools New Biological Seed Treatment Provides Nematode Protection Reaction to EPA Greenhouse Announcement Mixed Senators Speak Out on Cap and Trade Second USDA Food Commodity Contracting Conference Announced President Lobbies for Health Care Small Plant Help-Desk Opened 21st Annual MOSES Organic Farming Conference Smartstax Corn Receives Import Approvals for Korea, Taiwan Two Days of Hearings Conclude with Concerns ARRA Funds Help Local Food Banks Cutting Edge Biorefinery Projects Receive Funds Poultry Calendar Available Poultry Calendar Available Look for Positives in a Nightmarish Fall Southwire Introduces SureSeal Cable Prop-A-Gate Offers Helping Hand Lincoln Launches Light Viking Helmet Bigger and Faster Claas Rake Fifth Generation Family Farmers Win MDA Award ASA Announces New Officers Increased International Attendance at 2009 Farm Progress Show NCBA Concerned With Banking Regulations Senate Ag Committee Moving on Financial Regulation Bill House Passes Permanent Estate Tax Relief Bill Clark Testifies at White House Jobs Summit RFA Leader Wants More Answers NASS Reports on Irrigation Use Something Nice For Gear-Head Farmers Congress Trying Again to Lift Trade Restrictions with Cuba H1N1 Identified in Turkey Flock H1N1 Identified in Turkey Flock GIPSA Issues New Full Disclosure Rule GIPSA Issues New Full Disclosure Rule Subcommittee Focuses on Climate Change Bill Grassley Wants Last Minute Inclusion in Summit Topic Legislation Would Change Meat and Poultry Inspection Rules Further Strengthening Of Cotton Research Timberwolves Game Is Backdrop for Dairy Salute, Sales Minnesota Gardening Calendars Make Great Gifts EPA Delays E15 Determination Estate Tax Bill Up for Vote in House R-CALF Supports Interstate Shipments of State Inspected Meat CBO Report Receives Mixed Reviews Webinar Recap: Maximizing Your Purchasing Power for 2010 Webinar Recap: Maximizing Your Purchasing Power for 2010 Second Wave of H1N1 Has Peaked Consumers to Find More Availability of Biodiesel Blends EPA Announces Delay in E15 Decision EPA E15 Ruling Expected Tuesday CBO Reports Costs on Health Care Bill Justice Department Looking at Big Ag Businesses Chicken Council Questions Consumer Reports Survey Sorghum Producers Get Better Crop Insurance Elections Consider Tillage Options Following Late, Wet Harvest President to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks Farmland Values Continue Slump Stats Show Safety Level of School Bound Beef Poll Shows Weakening Views of Climate Change Wheat Council Seeks Checkoff Increase Harvest Will End…Someday! Try These Welding Projects 2010 Energy Drilling Lease Sales Announced Bio-Oil and Biochar May be Future of Corn Stover Energy Department Supports Smart Grid Technologies Letter Asks NAIS be Shut Down Letter Asks NAIS be Shut Down Happy Thanksgiving!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!! Grass Hedges Do Protect Water Grass Hedges Do Protect Water 2010 Scholars Program Details Released AMI Supports Interstate Commerce Rules Blender Pump Tax Fix Sought EPA Renews Agriculture Charter Turkey Growers, St. Paul Convention Donate Turkey to Saint Paul Food Shelf Lull in Climate Change Action Provides Time to Look Again Senate Ag Committee Focuses on Rural Economy Funds Will Help Mississippi River Basin Water Quality Funding Applications Open for Planning Activities Celebrating 70 Years of Minnesota Turkey Senate Votes to Move to the Health Care Debate WTO Panels to Decide on COOL, EU Poultry Ban Disaster Assistance Bill Introduced Growth Energy Wants California's Public Comment Period Reopened Still Tilling Soybean Stubble….Why? Dairy Leaders Roundtable, Symposium Set for Dec. 3 Registration for U-M SowBridge Opens Registration for U-M SowBridge Opens Farm/City Week Tackles Livestock Myths vs. Facts Ag Chair Schedules Two Field Meetings Meetings Set to Explore Competition and Regulatory Issues Corn Genome Sequencing Complete New Senate Health Care Bill Faces Rocky Future Senate Ag Committee Considers Financial Oversight No Climate Change Bill This Year Committee Passes Food Safety Bill NFU Speaks Out on Child Nutrition Bill One-Year Extension of Current Estate Tax Looks Likely Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture Selects New Board Members Annual Rural Forum Set for Dec. 3 in North Mankato Please Place Swine Workers on H1N1 Priority List with Santa Estate Tax Bill Could be Delayed Beef Checkoff Wants a Food Fight Beef Checkoff Wants a Food Fight Nutrition Program Hearing Held Food Safety Bill Mark Up Scheduled Poultry Industry Cleaning Up Act Poultry Industry Cleaning Up Act Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension Introduced in House Ag, Interior Departments Purchase Land Pesticide Levels Down or Stable in Waterways McDonald's and Suppliers Taking on Activist Claims Concerning Slaughter McDonald's and Suppliers Taking on Activist Claims Concerning Slaughter Livestock From Everywhere at NAILE Show Livestock From Everywhere at NAILE Show Propane Supply a Concern Oil and Natural Gas Lease Sale Announced JBS in Financial Struggle JBS in Financial Struggle Survey Reveals Highest Rate of Food Insecurity on Record Pork Production Must Be Cut Pork Production Must Be Cut Ag Committee to Hold Two Hearings This Week NutriSphere- N and AVAIL Can Help Fertilizer Efficiency USDA to Buy $50 Million in Pork USDA to Buy $50 Million in Pork Banking Bill has Critics Household Food Security Report to be Issued More Doubt Over Climate Change Legislation Minnesota Wheat Council to Hold Board Meeting Don't Let High Corn Yield Numbers Shock You New Holland Launches Largest Capacity Combine Group Puts Animal Well-Being Tools Online EPA May Not Make E15 Decision by Dec. 1 Deadline Ag and Energy Departments Fund Biofuels Research Letter Focuses on Climate Bill's Emission Allowances USAID Appointee Faces Challenges Senator Wants Slaughter of Downer Cattle Stopped Senator Wants Slaughter of Downer Cattle Stopped Vikings' Greenway, Dairy Council Tackle Childhood Obesity New Fungicide Registered Dairy Group Leaders Outline Actions Seed Tech Agreement Announced Guidance Provided by RMA for Extension on Crop Insurance ASA Presents its Doha Priorities Chemical Decline in Waterways Good, Thanks to Producers Mexican Pork Demand Responding to Industry Messages Mexican Pork Demand Responding to Industry Messages U-M: More Farmers Using Debt Mediation Revised Label for PowerFlex Herbicide H1N1 Vaccine for Hogs Available Soon H1N1 Vaccine for Hogs Available Soon U.S. Farmers Producing Ethanol Needs for Coming Year Banking Regulation Bill Introduced Senate Health Care Debate Could Start Next Week Extension Support Given to Military Families Minnesota Farmers Union to Elect New Vice President at State Convention The First Domesticated Pig Genome Is Sequenced Agritechnica Preview Shows New Products Agritechnica Preview Shows New Products Senate Climate Debate Picking Up Some Steam Secretary Seeking Support for Child Nutrition Reauthorization Influenza Information Help Available to Pork Producers Influenza Information Help Available to Pork Producers Cuba Trade Bill Needs Support Minnesota Agri-Growth Council Announces New Board USDA Announces National Pork Board Appointments Health Care Bill Narrowly Passes House Oversight of H1N1 in Pigs is Working Oversight of H1N1 in Pigs is Working Ohio Issue 2 Vote Just the Beginning Ohio Issue 2 Vote Just the Beginning Alliance Voices Views of Latest Clean Air Legislation Workmaster Is New Moniker for New Holland Tractors Toro Introduces Layflat Hose Swisher Offers Clean Driveways Reinke Ups Warranty on Irrigation Rigs New Draper Platform from Deere Governor Relaxes Propane Transport Restrictions FSA County Committee Elections Begin Easy Does It During Corn Drying This Fall Beginning Farmer Resource Being Developed Pro Football Player Promoting Green Fuels Cap-and-Trade Legislation Passes Out of Committee President to Meet with House Democrats County Committee Elections Begin Food Commodity Contracting Opportunities Announced Deere Offers 5D-5M Series Utility Tractors Climate Legislation Receives Chamber of Commerce Support EPA Proposes New Pesticide Labeling Ohio Voters Buoy Animal Agriculture Ohio Voters Buoy Animal Agriculture Farm Groups Push Biodiesel Tax Incentive House to Vote on Health Care Reform Saturday Senate Health Care Bill Still Has Challenges Monsanto Breaks Ground for Research Site in Texas State Cattleman's Association Convention & Beef Trade Set for December 4-5 Siehl Prize for Excellence in Agriculture Seeks Nominations Corn Cob Harvesting Demos Attract Farmers USDA Announces More Funding for Beginning Farmers State Farmers Donate Pork, Dairy Products Ohio Voters Approve Issue 2 Ohio Voters Approve Issue 2 Ohio Voters Approve Issue 2 Ohio Voters Approve Issue 2 Ohio Voters Approve Issue 2 EPA Holds Panel on Atrazine AFBF Leader Against Health Care Act Health Care Reform Still A Ways Off Markup of Clean Energy Bill Begins in Senate USDA Funds Farmer and Rancher Education Expanded Market Access for U.S. Beef to Taiwan Expanded Market Access for U.S. Beef to Taiwan Expanded Market Access for U.S. Beef to Taiwan Delayed Harvest Causes Deer Hunting Safety Concerns Ohio's Issue 2 Vote is Tuesday Ohio's Issue 2 Vote is Tuesday Senate Climate Change Bill Faces Republican Boycott USDA Finds Pandemic H1N1 in Indiana Commercial Swine USDA Finds Pandemic H1N1 in Indiana Commercial Swine USDA Finds Pandemic H1N1 in Indiana Commercial Swine Farming Technology Advances with Ag Leader, AutoFarm Alliance NASS to Re-Survey Operators With Unharvested Small Grains Millions in Organic Research, Education and Extension Grants Awarded Carbofuran Residues Revoked by EPA Climate Markup Could Happen Tuesday Swine Genome Project Clears Hurdle Swine Genome Project Clears Hurdle Beef Industry Group Questions EPA Dust Rule Analysis Beef Industry Group Questions EPA Dust Rule Analysis Minnesota Wheat Council Seeks Candidates for Board of Directors HSUS Video Gets USDA Reaction Biotech Tools Receive Approval House Subcommittee Hears about Challenges to Next-Gen Fuels Assessing Forage Quality New Opportunity for U.S. Sorghum in Morocco ASA Ready to Celebrate 90 Years House Health Care Package Introduced Testimony Continues on Climate Change Legislation Debate Heating Up on Ohio's Proposition 2 Debate Heating Up on Ohio's Proposition 2 Debate Heating Up on Ohio's Proposition 2 Debate Heating Up on Ohio's Proposition 2 Debate Heating Up on Ohio's Proposition 2 New Ram HD Trucks Made for Towing Minnesota Corn Grower Named to Growth Energy Board Earlier Observations About Disease Come Home to Roost Syngenta Donates to Farm Rescue, Feeding America Here's an Overview of NRCS Water System Standards Here's an Overview of NRCS Water System Standards Here's an Overview of NRCS Water System Standards Can Public Option Garner Senate Votes? Interior Spending Bill Tackles EPA GHG Reporting Rule Implementation of Farm Bill's Horticulture and Organic Ag Provisions Examined MASWCD Names Eight Conservation Winners Rural Health Care Focus of New Report E. Coli Eradication Act in Works Bill Introduced to Increase FDA Oversight of Food USDA Supports Water Quality Protection and Conservation Healthcare Debate May Begin on House Floor Next Week Farm-State Senators Raise Climate Concerns Mentors Available for Organic Farmers Senate Climate Change Details Unveiled Could See Health Care Bills from House and Senate This Week? RFA Looking for More User-Friendly Loan Guarantee Program Smart Choices Responds to FDA Concerns Last PQA and TQA Trainings Set Last PQA and TQA Trainings Set Climate Change Hearing Set Is Public Option In or Out of Health Care Reform? Report Quantifies Cap-and-Trade Effect on Fuel Costs Critics Argue Against Biofuels Campaign Asks USDA to stop New Facilities Loans Campaign Asks USDA to stop New Facilities Loans Campaign Asks USDA to stop New Facilities Loans Have MIG Will Travel Ranger 225 Enclosed Case Welder Sparks to Life Miller Creates a 40-foot Extension to the Work Area Easier Pulls on Swisher's Log Splitters Shuttle Shift Available on Kioti DS Terex Track Delivers the Goods LS Hits the U.S. Market with New Line of Compact Utility Tractors FluLine Offers Support, Treatment Options Trait Talk, Price, Dominate Seed Sales Market Priorities of Child Nutrition Reauthorization Will be Improved Access, Quality and Performance Crop Quality Being Questioned by U.S. Customers House Democrats Add Federal Antitrust Exemption in Health Care Bill USDA's Second-in-Command Learns About Biofuels USDA Recommends Changes to Milk Marketing Order USDA Recommends Changes to Milk Marketing Order USDA Recommends Changes to Milk Marketing Order Crop Research Grants Released MOSES Mentoring Program available to New Organic Farmers Pork Industry on Road to Recovery Pork Industry on Road to Recovery Pork Industry on Road to Recovery Blue Jackets Descend Upon Indianapolis Could House Be Near Passing Health Care Reform? Likely to be Changes in USDA Budget Derivatives Regulations Passed by House Ag Committee Klobuchar Announces Funding for Minnesota Crop Producers USDA Releases DCP and ACRE Numbers FSIS Wants Input on Proposed Regulations Results of NCGA Survey Released Kioti Enters the UTV Market National FFA Convention This Week Sources to Scan for Harvesting Soybeans in a Wet Fall Dairy Industry Reducing Its Environmental Impact Dairy Industry Reducing Its Environmental Impact Small Tractor Market In Upheaval Pork Industry Gains Ally in Fighting Inaccurate Label for H1N1 Pork Industry Gains Ally in Fighting Inaccurate Label for H1N1 Pork Industry Gains Ally in Fighting Inaccurate Label for H1N1 Summit Held in Kansas City on Wheat Industry Health Care Reform Negotiations Could Be Finished in Senate This Week NCGA Releases Educational Film Iowa-Minnesota Drainage Forum at ISU in Ames November 10 Fort Dodge Animal Health Future Undecided Fort Dodge Animal Health Future Undecided Fort Dodge Animal Health Future Undecided Fort Dodge Animal Health Future Undecided Fort Dodge Animal Health Future Undecided CCC Accepts Butter Bid CCC Accepts Butter Bid Woody Biomass Forage Harvester Demonstration Wednesday H1N1 Confirmed in Hogs from Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Confirmed in Hogs from Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Confirmed in Hogs from Minnesota State Fair Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Cases Have No Animal Connection Yet Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Cases Have No Animal Connection Yet Minnesota State Fair H1N1 Cases Have No Animal Connection Yet EPA Plans Clean Water Act Enforcement R-CALF USA Expresses Deep Disappointment NCGA CEO to Serve with Waterways Council H1N1 info On the Web Program Honors Ph.D. Candidates Ohio Agriculture Rallies Support for Issue 2 USA Today Editorial Draws Fire from NCGA USDA Study Will Produce New Information Specialty Crops Grants Awarded U-M Extension Honors Rep. Al Juhnke, Faculty Bill Gates Calls For A 'New Green Revolution' To Support World's Poorest Farmers World Food Prize Receives Contribution From Soybean Farmers No Final Counter-Cyclical Payments for Peanuts, Corn, Grain Sorghum and Soybeans New Research Supports Biodiesel Production Senate Debating 2010 Energy-Water Appropriations Bill Producers, Workers Should Get Flu Vaccinations Producers, Workers Should Get Flu Vaccinations Disparity in Rural Health Care Addressed by Vilsack Health Reform Makes it Through Finance Committee Compared to 2008 Beef and Pork Exports Still Lagging Compared to 2008 Beef and Pork Exports Still Lagging Compared to 2008 Beef and Pork Exports Still Lagging Compared to 2008 Beef and Pork Exports Still Lagging Coccidiosis Must Be Closely Managed Coccidiosis Must Be Closely Managed Online Courses for Lamb and Wool Producers Proposed Consumer Legislation Needs Strong State Role Think Hard Before Selling Raw Milk Think Hard Before Selling Raw Milk Think Hard Before Selling Raw Milk USDA Expects Dairy Demand to Rebound USDA Expects Dairy Demand to Rebound USDA Expects Dairy Demand to Rebound Senate Finance Committee Votes Tuesday on Health Bill H1N1 Incidents Are Increasing H1N1 Incidents Are Increasing H1N1 Incidents Are Increasing Northwestern Wisconsin Dairy Calf, Heifer Facility Tours Oct. 21 Northwestern Wisconsin Dairy Calf, Heifer Facility Tours Oct. 21 Watch for Frost Damage in Corn Crops Electric Rates Are Dropping OTC Derivatives Discussion Draft Introduced Medical Malpractice is Key Section of Health Care Reform Growth Energy Asks California to 'Do Low-Carbon Right' Farm Bureau Members take a Stand on Climate Change Legislation CCC Supports Dairy Industry Through Sale of Butter CCC Supports Dairy Industry Through Sale of Butter Heavy Duty Trucks Now Get Rain-X Wiper Blades Portable Solar Power Comes From SunPod Upgrade Milo Harvest With Improved Flexo-Guards Featherlite Offers New 8117 Model Livestock Trailer DFA and Dean Sued for Price-Fixing DFA and Dean Sued for Price-Fixing DFA and Dean Sued for Price-Fixing Atrazine to Undergo Comprehensive Review Ag Secretary Launches NIFA Report Issued on Rural Health Care Coverage CAP Awards Announced R-CALF Wants Deal Denied R-CALF Wants Deal Denied R-CALF Wants Deal Denied FSA Loans Now Available Competitive Grants Available for Agricultural Education Company Sequences Canola Genome Callisto Xtra Herbicide Combines Two Modes of Action Conference Committee Includes NBAF Funding CBO Reports on Finance Committee Health Care Bill Support Program Sign-up Begins CSP Program Experiences Strong Sign-up Sorghum Checkoff Establishes Web Presence MDA on the Lookout for Spotted Knapweed Increase in Foreign Owned U.S. Ag Land Study Released that Non-Cage Eggs Would Raise Prices Finace Vote on Health Care Pushed Back Study Considers Holstein Production and Reproduction Study Considers Holstein Production and Reproduction Study Considers Holstein Production and Reproduction Water and Environmental Project Funds Released Pioneer Hi-Bred Announces Seed Treatment Offerings for Corn, Soybean Growers "Lost In The Dark" Returns to Farmamerica Kinze Offers the Industry's First Factory Optional Planter Scale Package Sustainable Agriculture Video Released by NCGA Changes to Climate Change Legislation Requested by BIO Soybean Rust Found in Illinois Controversial Dairy Funds Center of Attention Controversial Dairy Funds Center of Attention Controversial Dairy Funds Center of Attention Traceability Ear Tags Distributed by Candaian Pork Council Traceability Ear Tags Distributed by Candaian Pork Council Traceability Ear Tags Distributed by Candaian Pork Council 25X'25 Helping Wind Energy Spread MCGA Elects DeVonna Zeug as President FDA and USDA Working on New Food Safety Regulations Weigh Risks of Late-Fall Alfalfa Cutting GAO Releases Report Covering ILUC Farm Bureau Doesn't Like Boxer-Kerry Bill H1N1 Vaccine to be Available This Week Corn Grower-leaders Support Atrazine Use Intergenerational Land Transfer Workshop Offered in Brainerd Monsanto, Dow Agrosciences Smartstax Corn Hybrids Eligible for Crop Insurance Pilot Premium Rate Reduction Program In 2010 Weigh Those Big Yields as They Come In Feds React to California Water Crisis NASS to Resurvey Some Small Grains Producers Taiwan to Purchase U.S. Soybeans NASDA Proposes Unique Support Program CWT Conducting Another Herd Retirement Program CWT Conducting Another Herd Retirement Program CWT Conducting Another Herd Retirement Program Administration Moving to Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions New Milk Labels May Decrease Overall Demand for Milk New Milk Labels May Decrease Overall Demand for Milk Bill Would Lift Poultry Ban and Help Dairy Industry Bill Would Lift Poultry Ban and Help Dairy Industry Bill Would Lift Poultry Ban and Help Dairy Industry Senate is Moving Forward on Heatlh Care Reform Reaction is Mixed to Boxer-Kerry Bill Pack Silage Right for Best Results Check Alfalfa Above, Below Ground Aphanomyces Root Rot is Alfalfa Yield Killer Sponsor an FFA jacket Boxer-Kerry Global Warming Legislation to be Introduced in Senate Web Site Helps Fight Oxidative Stress in Dairy Cows Web Site Helps Fight Oxidative Stress in Dairy Cows Web Site Helps Fight Oxidative Stress in Dairy Cows Turning Cobs into Fuel Receives Boost MPCA Seeks Applications for Environmental Grants Farm Progress and Iron Solutions Expand Used Machinery Section Distribution Trade Tensions Continue to Grow Between U.S. and China More Japanese Looking Forward to Eating U.S. Beef More Japanese Looking Forward to Eating U.S. Beef More Japanese Looking Forward to Eating U.S. Beef Livestock Forage Payments Being Released U-M Hosts Memorial for Alumnus Norman Borlaug Oct. 8 USGC Releases Results of Chinese Corn Tour Top Leaders Hail Appropriations Agreement Group Purchases VeraSun Facility Ohio Animal Care Campaign Begins Wireless Control For Tree Shearing Bulldog 140 is New From Lincoln Westendorf Unveils Freedom Mount Loaders Valley 5000 Series Aimed at Small Field Operators Lessons Abound in Corn Field Before Harvest Minnesota's List of "Impaired Water" Updated AMI Requests Meeting on Electron Beam Technology Soy Checkoff's Biotech Initiative Works to Ensure Market Access in European Union EPA Backs Off Land Use Change USDA Issues Several Grants Compact Impact Sprinkler Minnesota Farm Bureau Annual Meeting Set for Nov. 19-21 RFA Discusses Comments for EPA on RFS NRCS Takes Lead on New Initiative for the Mississippi River Basin USDA Announces Move to Improve Health of Mississippi River Basin Health Care Reform Moving Climate Discussed at Summit Support Sought for Key Energy Amendments Michelin Offers Harvest-Time Bounty on High-Performance Ag Radial Tires USDA Gives Grants Under Farmers Market Promotion Program CWT Completes Eighth Herd Retirement Round CWT Completes Eighth Herd Retirement Round Shell Announces Ladder of Protection Health Care Bill Now Moving Through Senate Finance Committee Review Underway of Outer Continental Shelf Comments Growth Energy Backs Harkin Amendment Study Shows Cost of Regulation Compliance Lucas Says Spending Must Stop Pioneer Expands Corn Drought Research Efforts MPCA Releases 2009 Watershed Achievements Report NCGA Promotes Grower Comments to EPA President Proclaims National Farm Safety and Health Week Research Looking at East Coast Food Production Farmers Market Promotion Grants Announced Decision Favoring Producers Under Review Cap-and-Trade part of 25X'25 Working Group's Focus U-M Extension Online Land Rent Survey Open Until Sept. 30 AFBF Backs Health Insurance Tax Credit For Hillside Farming Shell Offers Energy Efficient Hydraulic Fluid Report Issued on Feeding Cattle WDGS Report Issued on Feeding Cattle WDGS Report Issued on Feeding Cattle WDGS New Leader of Organic Program Announced Senate Bill Would Ensure New Fuel Compatibility Corn Diseases Take Advantage of Weather Patterns Worksaver Adds New Tine Grapple Turn Your Good Idea Into a New Sustainable Farming Practice Alliance to Promote College Student Participation Freeways-to-Fuel Project Moving Forward Multi-State SCN Research Supports Field Scouting Health Care Reaction Strong in All Directions Pheasant Roadside Count Declines for 2009 Monsanto Company Announces Approach to Chemistry to help U.S. Farmers Manage Risk Western Coalition to Promote Healthy Landscapes Bobcat Offers New M Series Bayer Sees Strength in Ag, Had Strong 2008 Administration Proposes New Fuel Mileage Standards Rural Economic Development Grants Announced Summary of Health Bill Released Cap-and-Trade Cost Debate Continues Livestock Investment Grants Available Pioneer Hi-Bred Announces New Inoculant Platform Interstate Shipment Rules Published ASA Requests RFS Letter Writing Campaign Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Program Begins NFU Supporting Dairy Industry NFU Supporting Dairy Industry NFU Supporting Dairy Industry FDA Approves Vaccines for 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus MFB Hosts Promotion and Education Conference Dorr Named President and CEO of U.S. Grains Council BASF Gets Label for Kixor U.S. Tire Tariff May Affect U.S. Poultry Exports U.S. Tire Tariff May Affect U.S. Poultry Exports Presidents Wants New Financial Regulations Senate Committee Advances on Health Care Bill Producers Assistance Programs Available Biodiesel Has Positive Affect on Soybean Prices Waseca County SWCD Receives Regional Award Dow AgroSciences and Mycogen Seeds Announce Rebates Low Lin Soybean Agreement Expanded Nutrition Programs Face Reauthorization Deadline Ag Department Releases SNAP Funds Funds Released for Forest Protection FSA Needs Advisory Committee Members Financial, Energy or Climate Legislation Could Be Next Dairy Research and Promotion Council Seeks Candidates Rhino Hay Rake Deep Tillage and Residue Control: One Tool New GFX Row Cleaner Sports Independent Suspension Summers Rolling Chopper Smooths Soil Watch Temperatures Before Making Nitrogen Applications Turn Round Bales Into Cash Nobel Laureate, Father of 'Green Revolution' Passes Nobel Laureate, Father of 'Green Revolution' Passes AGCO Extends Motor Oil Rebate New Ethanol Plant celebrates Grand Opening Secretary Takes Reporters to Task Secretary Takes Reporters to Task Secretary Takes Reporters to Task R-CALF Wants House Passed Food Safety Bill Stopped NFU Wants Dairy Lifeline Maintained NFU Wants Dairy Lifeline Maintained NFU Wants Dairy Lifeline Maintained Lincoln Receives More Positive Reaction LIP Changes Announced LIP Changes Announced LIP Changes Announced LIP Changes Announced Check Your Soil Fertility Reserves Now State Fair Seeks Young Adults to Serve on Advisory Team New Food Safety Web Site Unveiled Senator Lincoln is New Ag Committee Chairwoman Senate Finance to Mark up Health Care Groups Request Denial of NBAF Funding Ag Committee Holds Hearing on Global Warming Dodge County Farmers Union Opposes Rail Corridor Events Lead to Senate Committee Chair Changes USB Asks USDA for More Details on Proposed Mediation Ag Secretary Promotes Back-to-School Health Care Reform Discussed on Capitol Hill President to Take Health Care Stance First Domino Falls to Change Senate Ag Leadership USDA Announces $13 Million for Renewable Energy Chambliss Wants More Global Warming Hearings Climate Change Report Published Soft Market Has Farmers Considering Storage Versus Sales New York Senator Calls for Dairy Relief New York Senator Calls for Dairy Relief Paper Says Ag Leaders Slow Regulation Moves U-M Extension Offers New Online Land Rent Survey NPPC a Little More Comfortable with Canadian Program NPPC a Little More Comfortable with Canadian Program NPPC a Little More Comfortable with Canadian Program Many Chinese Relate H1N1 to Pork Many Chinese Relate H1N1 to Pork Many Chinese Relate H1N1 to Pork Ag Committee to Hold Global Warming Hearing Produce Tattoos Developed Companies Believe Farmers Will Plant in Narrower Rows MPCA Approves $6 Million in Grants for Water Quality Projects H1N1 Detected in More Canadian Herds H1N1 Detected in More Canadian Herds H1N1 Detected in More Canadian Herds EPA Officials Make Their First Trip to Farm Country Ag Department Meets President's Goal Reminder Issued About Value-Added Program USDA Purchasing Pork USDA Purchasing Pork Work Injury Statistics Show a Rise in the Farm Industry Renewable Energy Funds Released Drying Grain Efficiently With Propane Hearing Held on Expanding Biofuels Role U.S. Has Opportunity to Sell Top End Beef U.S. Has Opportunity to Sell Top End Beef U.S. Has Opportunity to Sell Top End Beef E-Guide to Goat Management Now Available New Front-end Loader From Buhler NCGA Commissions Study of Cap and Trade Growth Energy Calls for Country of Origin Labeling of Fuel ISU Recommends Facing Climate Change Now Not Later Farm Groups Want Obama to Focus on Trade Demand Could Boost Post-Harvest Grain Prices In the Senate Climate Change Second to Health Care Foliar Fungicides Do Not Control Sudden Death Syndrome Kinze Unveils New Planter Line at Farm Progress Show Potential Regional Shift of Senate Ag Leadership WTO Sets U.S. Sanctions in Cotton Case Biomass Crop Assistance Program Makes First Payments DOE Grant Will Train Officials in Fuels Technologies USDA Grants Go to Home Improvements MDA Livestock Grants Available Two New Box Spreaders in New Holland Line Green Corn Still Dominates Countryside Survey Reported on President's Energy Policy New Web Site has Information on Ethanol Growth Energy Begins Information Campaign Study of Hog Infection Leads to More Tests Study of Hog Infection Leads to More Tests Study of Hog Infection Leads to More Tests Senate Ag Committee Sets Hearing on Biofuels Sukup Introduces QuadraTouch Sept. 30 Crop Insurance Deadline Comes With Strong Incentives SprayIT Calculator Makes Tip Selection Easy Stalks, Hay and Straw Make Fodder for the BR7090 USDA Ear Counts Important Factor in Big Yield Updated Information and Database Launched Value Added Grants Are on the Way TB Problem in Several States TB Problem in Several States TB Problem in Several States TB Problem in Several States Health Care Co-ops Debated U-M Waseca Holds Open House Grassley Cautiously Optimistic of a Health Care Deal in Wake of August Recess Possible Change at Top of Senate Ag Committee NRCS Issues Estimated CSP Payment Ranges Funds Released to Help Improve Forests Comments Sought on Trade Adjustment Program MFU Vice President Dennis Sjodin Won't Seek Re-election Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture Launches Partnership Atrazine Levels in Water Are Questioned H1N1 Human Infection Scenario Estimates Released Dairy Advisory Committee Being Formed Dairy Advisory Committee Being Formed Dairy Advisory Committee Being Formed Animal Well-being Commission Formed Animal Well-being Commission Formed Animal Well-being Commission Formed MFB Unveils New Exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair Vilsack Discusses Cap and Trade Report Projects Reduced Domestic Fuel Production Warning to Equine Owners Issued Warning to Equine Owners Issued Shift Continues in Electrical Generation Sources More Learned About Colony Collapse Disorder House Legislators to Meet-and-greet at State Fair TIME Publishes Biased View of Beef Industry TIME Publishes Biased View of Beef Industry TIME Publishes Biased View of Beef Industry Some Surprises in Latest Cattle on Feed Report Some Surprises in Latest Cattle on Feed Report Some Surprises in Latest Cattle on Feed Report Internet Tool Focuses on Natural Resources Health-Care Discussed in Phone Conference Study of Fertilizers Costs-Benefits Released Cap-and-Trade Analysis from 25x'25 Hog Production Numbers Giving Mixed Signals Hog Production Numbers Giving Mixed Signals Hog Production Numbers Giving Mixed Signals Minnesota's July Milk Output up 6% compared to 2008 State Fair's New Moo Booth to Open with Milk "Toast" and Ribbon Cutting Public Meetings Scheduled to Discuss CRP Senators Encourage Insurance Process Improvements Some Movement on Health Care Legislation Possible CFTC Chairman Recommends Additions Pork Marketing Groups Want Government Help Pork Marketing Groups Want Government Help Pork Marketing Groups Want Government Help Large Livestock Feedlots Must Re-register by January 2010 Kinze Launches Planter Rebate Program Crop Insurance Deadline Comes With Strong Incentives Vilsack Brings Administration's Rural Tour to Iowa State Fair Farm Notes Sale Underway Wind Energy Has Many Potential Positives Veterinary Association Questions Pew Report New Tractor Builds on Winning Strategy 7000 Series Tractors Get New Model Powering Up for Forage Productivity Sprayer Aims for Bigger Market New Windrower Lineup Launched for 2010 Guidance Products Additions Offered Boosting Sprayer Productivity Dahlco Joins Wensman Seed Company in Minnesota Anhydrous Hookup Offers 'No Hands' Convenience Deere Launches New Tractors and Equipment On Farm Storage Loans Now Available Argentina Beef Industry in Trouble Argentina Beef Industry in Trouble Argentina Beef Industry in Trouble ARRA Dollars to Protect Natural Resources Rural Broadband Study Completed Health Care Option Being Debated Petition to Activate God Squad to Be Presented Youth Can Get Rush of the Flush With Experienced Pheasants Forever Mentor Soy Transportation Coalition Publishes Semi Weight Analysis NPPC Asks for Industry Help NPPC Asks for Industry Help NPPC Asks for Industry Help Program Announced to Help Canadian Pork Industry Program Announced to Help Canadian Pork Industry Program Announced to Help Canadian Pork Industry Administration Changes Views of Some Health Care Issues Rural Tour Focuses on Education U-M Field Day on Thursday at Lamberton States Most Likely to Receive ACRE Payments Ranked Four Democratic Senators Want to Push Climate Change to Next Year Ag Secretary Sends Forest Service in New Direction Comments Requested on USDA's Facility Guarantee Program Virus Enzymes Could Promote Human, Animal Health Variety of Values at 2009 State Fair Leave a Clean Path Kuhn Knight Has New Spreader Case IH Offers Small Square Baler Topcon Releases AES-25 for Sub-inch Accuracy Quick Change Artist from Kuhn Meat Export Report Offers Mixed Numbers Clean Energy Bill Study Released Storage Loan Application Period Starts Monday MDA's Hugoson to Host Listening Sessions Pork Industry Optimistic About Korean Market Ethanol's Future May Rely on Rise in Blend Limit Australia Report Paints Optimistic Market Picture MDA Creates Minnesota Farmer Assistance Network National Campaign Launched to Increase Ethanol Blender Pumps Report Focuses on Rural Health Care Vilsack Calls on Veterinarians to Volunteer for 'United We Serve' Initiative Illinois Ag Economists See 60% Shot of ACRE Payout Revised Agriculture Transportation Handbook Now Available Crop Progress Continues to Show Delays USDA Launches Retooled Loan Assistance Iowa State Report Favorable to Ethanol Production APHIS Discussing Emergency H1N1 Plan APHIS Discussing Emergency H1N1 Plan APHIS Discussing Emergency H1N1 Plan President Speaks Out on Mexican Trucking Issue South Korea Lifts Ban on Pork South Korea Lifts Ban on Pork South Korea Lifts Ban on Pork State Fair Offers "Sneak Peek" at Mall of America ACRE Signup Due This Friday DOE Supports New Energy Economy Legislation Would Make Ethanol Available at More Pumping Stations Biodiesel Tax Extension Proposed EPA Report Clouds Lifecycle Analysis Issues FDA Proposal Would Speed Up Enforcement Actions Evaluate Farm Situation Before Deciding on ACRE Governors Support Help for Pork Producers Governors Support Help for Pork Producers Iowa Senators Look to Honor Borlaug USDA, DOJ to Hold Workshops on Competition in Ag Industry August Crop Forecast May be Harder to Make Recent Study Shows Benefits of Cellulosic E85 Hogs Hit Bottom Pheasants Forever's Family Fun Shoot in Rosemount August 22 Avian Influenza Confirmed in Meeker County Turkey Flock Deputy Secretary Merrigan Announces First National Sign-Up For New Conservation Stewardship Program Ag Land Values Drop First-Hand Look at Climate Change Senate Ag Appropriations Bill Helps Many Ag Secretary Vilsack Discusses Global Food Security Results of Latest CWT Herd Retirement Announced Results of Latest CWT Herd Retirement Announced Results of Latest CWT Herd Retirement Announced CCC Rates Announced for August Norfolk Wind Energy Surpasses 5,000 Acre Mark Syngenta to Acquire Monsanto's Hybrid Sunflower Seeds Activities John Deere Sponsors 'National 811 Day' on 8/11 Inaugural Class elected to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame Inaugural Class elected to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame Ag Spending Bill Approved by Senate Senate Finance Committee Discusses Climate Change Legislation Budget Chair Says Farm Safety Net Not in Jeopardy Iowa State Economist on Ethanol and Corn Report Projects Reduced Domestic Fuel Production Minnesota Dairy Producers Complete 10 SpeakOut! Presentations New INSTINCT Nitrogen Stabilizer from Dow AgroSciences Receives Federal Label Registration Vets Issue Influenza Recommendations No Nutrient Advantage to Organic Produce USDA Announces Money Available through Rural Economic Development Grants NASS Adds ZIP Code Level to Ag Census Health Care Reform Ready for Floor Vote Proposed Biobased Product Label Rule Published Food Safety Bill Needs Work Minnesota to Receive Federal Business Development Grants African Trade and Economic Forum Coming Up Peterson and Frank Complete Derivatives Legislation Outline USDA Raises Dairy Support Payments House and Senate Continue to Work on Health Care Legislation to Boost USDA Meat Recall Authority Introduced Field Day on Organic Dairy Features Feedlot Runoff Alternatives AutoFarm Unveils Envizio Pro Research Betters Ethanol Production Biomass Support Program Begins Billions Announced to Help Rural Businesses Speaker Defends Blue Dog Agreement Administration Considering Hike in Milk Price Supports Administration Considering Hike in Milk Price Supports Administration Considering Hike in Milk Price Supports U-M to Receive USDA Grant for International Research Pumping it Forward New Holland boosts power for twin-rotor small-frame combine CCX770 Cob Harvester New from Vermeer The Joker Has Arrived SmartStax Corn Receives Japanese Import Approval Legislation Would Encourage Local Wind Investments USDA Funding Outreach Programs Food Safety Conference Scheduled Food Safety Bill Fails in House Health Care Reform Still Moving Renewable Energy, Crop Maturity Focus of U-M Farmfest Displays Anti-Ethanol Groups Make Push Has Administration's Position on Ethanol Imports Changed? Third Hearing on Dairy Prices Held Third Hearing on Dairy Prices Held Canada Will No Longer Quarantine Swine for H1N1 Virus MDA Celebrates 20 Years of Sustainable Farming Innovations Senators Push for Higher Ethanol Blends Coalition Doesn't Want to See Antibiotics Ban Added to Pending Bills U.S. Sorghum Again Going to Mexico Entry Deadline for NCGA's National Corn Yield Contest Fast Approaching Minnesota Officials Pushing for Resuming NAIS Discussion Farmamerica Open House Set for August 16 Fungicide Becomes Hot Topic as Diseases Appear in Corn Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule Changes Requested for Interim Final COOL Rule More Than $4 Million in Grants Awarded to Help Disabled Farmers and Ranchers Senate Ag Members Ask Glauber for Info Health Care Deal May or May Not Happen Papers on H1N1 Virus to be Released Papers on H1N1 Virus to be Released Seed Producer Launches Reduced Corn Refuge Program Farmers Invited to Tour Sauk Rapids Dairy Farm Five New Rogator Models Introduced Feedlot Inventories Expected Below Last Year Feedlot Inventories Expected Below Last Year No Quick Fix to Wheat Basis Woes President Eases Pressure on Health Care Passage DOE-USDA Joint Funding Announced Green Jobs Waiver Comment Period Closes Small Livestock Operations May Be Eligible for Feedlot Compliance Waiver CNH Unveils Three-Prong Expansion Plan Tim Bierman Selected to Lead National Pork Board House Hears Testimony on Clean Water Restoration Act NASS Collecting Updated Data for Corn and Sorghum Congressional Oversight Panel Releases Report on Farm Loan Restructuring Options Fertilizer Cost Ails Stockers This Year Senate Ag Committee Holds Hearing on Climate Change Worksaver Adds New Tine Grapple A New Ranger and One That Runs on Electricity! Farmamerica Board Members, Officers Elected Case IH Announces CVT Option for Farmall Compacts Vilsack Announces Climate Change Study NFU President to Testify on Climate Change Dow and Monsanto Receive Trait Registration Dow and Monsanto Receive Trait Registration Ag Chairmen Want Crop Insurance Changes Farm Bill Dollars to Advance Biofuels Dairy Industry Support Requested AAMP Asks for More Info Farms to Host Grazing Management Field Days Compact Impact Sprinkler Report Explores Why Rural America Needs Public Health Insurance USGC Meeting in Full Swing Exports of Grain Tied to Meat Demand ACRE Signup Push Is On United We Serve Program Promoted USDA Responds to Drudge Report Agribusiness Posts Nine-Month Earnings of $284.1 Million Crushing Knife Roll Aids in Clean Fields AMI Takes Position on Food Safety Wild Horse Bill Passes House TB Topic of Discussion in Denver TB Topic of Discussion in Denver TB Topic of Discussion in Denver Health Care Faces Higher Costs NPB to Work on Tight Budget NPB to Work on Tight Budget MPCA Takes Comments on New 5-year Operating Permit for Large Feedlots NCBA Members Vote on Policies to Address Cattle Industry Challenges For Hillside Farming Why Tassel Size and Shape Matters Eating Pork Fights Type 2 Diabetes Tyson Cutting Back Pork Production No Referendum for the Soybean Checkoff Trimble Acquires Farm Works Software Assets Growth Energy and NAEDA Support Higher Ethanol Blend USDA Announces Loans from Supplemental Appropriations Act Food Safety Hearing Held By House Ag Committee Dairy Rally Attended by Ag Secretary Dairy Rally Attended by Ag Secretary State Fair Competition Entry Deadlines Announced Guidelines Released for Response to Foodborne Disease Outbreak Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Named Deadline Nears for County Committee Nominations More Water Improvement Dollars Released Senators Want Breakdown of Cap-and-Trade Costs Free Nitrate Water Testing at Farmfest Livestock Organizations Applaud No-Subsidy Ethanol Bill Beef Checkoff Posting Return of $5.55 Beef Checkoff Posting Return of $5.55 Bond Warns Farmers Will Bear Brunt of Cap and Trade Animal/Human Disease Center Discusses Mission Scab Busts Eastern Cereal Crops AFBF Opposes H.R. 2454 Teens, Young Adults Need More Milk Dow AgroSciences Announces Agreement to Acquire Pfister Hybrids Dow AgroSciences Announces Agreement to Acquire Pfister Hybrids House Rules Committee Hearing on Antibiotic Ban House Rules Committee Hearing on Antibiotic Ban House Rules Committee Hearing on Antibiotic Ban House Rules Committee Hearing on Antibiotic Ban Pioneer Launches New High-Oleic Soybean No Counter-cyclical Payments for Wheat, Oats and Barley Monsanto Invests In Developing New Technologies for Wheat Obama Administration Asks Americans to Prepare for H1N1 Obama Administration Asks Americans to Prepare for H1N1 Bush-Era Rule Limiting Farm Exports to Cuba Overturned Senate Ag Committee Appointments Announced Wheat Industry Applying Pressure for U.S.-Colombian Agreement Pork-Beef Exports Mixed Bag Pork-Beef Exports Mixed Bag Members Needed for Feeding Minnesota Task Force Food Safety Official Named at USDA Funding Provided for Community Water and Wastewater Projects Hearing Held on Over-The-Counter Derivatives Ohio Livestock Care Legislation Ready for Voters Ohio Livestock Care Legislation Ready for Voters Ohio Livestock Care Legislation Ready for Voters Ohio Livestock Care Legislation Ready for Voters Second Dairy Buyout Set by CWT Second Dairy Buyout Set by CWT U-M Extension Celebrates 100 Years With Special 4-H Project Deadline for Special EQIP Initiative is Wednesday Not Every Tassel Is Created Equal National DHIA Announces Scholarship Program Information Dig It with Land Pride Topcon Precision Ag Shows Off Olathe Headquarters Climate Change Legislation on Hold Several Immigration Controls Proposed Ag Secretary Names FSA Administrator House Passes Ag Appropriations Bill A QuickSwitch Disc Harrow Hugoson and Northey Urge USDA to Help Pork Producers ASA Has Concerns About Bioenergy Program World Fertilizer Outlook Released Senator Wants Change in Cap-and-Trade Amendment on Information Sharing Denied Recommendations on Immigration Reform Announced 2011-2016 NPDES General Permit Comment Period Due in July Go Dustless and Remote Pioneer Hi-Bred Announces New North Carolina Research Center Doug Caruso Resigns as USDA FSA Administrator Secretaries Testify on Climate Change New Livestock Indemnity Program Begins New Livestock Indemnity Program Begins New Livestock Indemnity Program Begins New Livestock Indemnity Program Begins CFTC Hearing Announced National Corn Yield Contest Deadline Ahead July 15 Deadline approaches for Clean Water Act Grants Food Safety Working Group Release Findings Aid For Trade Will Help Developing Countries Exit Economic Crisis Dairy Export Incentives Announced Dairy Export Incentives Announced New Enforcement Approach for Immigration Focuses on Employers Yetter Upgrades Titan All-New Front-End Loader from Buhler Turn Round Bales Into Cash Shell Offers Energy Efficient Hydraulic Fluid Nominate Top Conservationists Deere & Company Set to Grow Russia Business Aussie Tractor Trekkers Make Ohio Food Prices Keep Sliding Lower Countries to Change Focus on Food Aid Southeast Minnesota Dairy Heifer Facility Tour Meat, Poultry Production Slide Slows Meat, Poultry Production Slide Slows Meat, Poultry Production Slide Slows Time to Get Serious About Scouting for Disease Load in Under Four Feet Potential for Ethanol Looks Good if Things Play Out Right Higher Highway Weight Limits Ahead? Pork Producers Urged to Review Withdrawal Standards Pork Producers Urged to Review Withdrawal Standards U of M Conference Focuses on Livestock Feeding Bayer CropScience and DuPont Expand Collaboration With Broad License Agreements CSP Signup Expected Soon Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards Senate Plans to Move on Climate Change R-CALF USA Calls for National Disease Strategy, Not NAIS R-CALF USA Calls for National Disease Strategy, Not NAIS Nestlé Cookie Dough Samples Confirmed With E. Coli FARMFEST Forums Set for August Event EPA Further Extends Comment Period on RFS Broadband Initiative Launched Rural Tour Launched by Obama Administration Corn-Fed Beef Trade Mission Wraps Up in Korea Corn-Fed Beef Trade Mission Wraps Up in Korea More Corn Fewer Soybeans No Surprise to Lanworth Graves Proposes Bill for Accelerating Energy Projects Climate Bill's Progress Delights Obama MDA, MBAH Urges USDA to Reshape Animal Identification Discussion The Aussies Have Landed – with Tractors! Tail End Charlie: A Champion Traveler Fescue Research Progressing Fescue Research Progressing Farm Bureau Holds Farmer Idea and County Activity Contest Program Brings Soybeans Closer to Consumers USDA Launches New Recovery Act Web Site Group Praises Congress for Action on Indirect Land Use Agencies Investigate Salmonella Contamination Canada Ramps up DDGS Use Minnesota Hog Inventory up 1% from March New Flexwing Rotary Cutter Stress Will Show Up If It Turns Dry Insurance Firms Announce Alliance Will House Vote on Climate Change Friday? Several Different Positions on Climate Change Bill Companies Collaborate to Beat Soybean Nematodes Farm Progress Announces New Business Unit Rural America Solutions Group Speaks On Climate Change Legislation Farm Bureau Can't Support Climate Change Bill Hearing on Farm Bill Implementation Held by House Ag Subcommittee Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Senate Releases Report on Excessive Wheat Speculation Farm Futures See Corn Acres Down 3% Peterson, Waxman Reach an Agreement on Energy Bill EPA Officials to Visit Iowa Growth Energy Pleased with Energy Secretary's Support of Ethanol HUD Joins USDA Effort by Launching Recovery Act Web Mapping Tool Appropriation Bills Show Upward Spending Trend Online Directory Offers List of Locally Grown Foods Soybean Checkoff Seeks Review of International Marketing Efforts New Climate Change Cost Analysis Released Doha Talks to Move Forward Nestlé Recall Causes Officials to Search Possibilities Pork Producers Making Small Production Cuts Pork Producers Making Small Production Cuts Organic Producers Can Get Conservation Funding South Korea Free Trade Deal Still Pending South Korea Free Trade Deal Still Pending Pump up Glyphosate Performance Biofuels Development Could Be Hurt By Clashing Policies NFU Calls on CFTC Chairman Gensler for Commodity Market Investigation House Ag Committee Approves FY2010 Appropriations Bill Minnesota's Peterson Stands Strong on Ethanol Saturated Fats Are Important Part of a Healthy Diet New High Capacity Offset Mower Rotator Replaces Impact Purdue study: CAFO impacts a mixed bag in communities Purdue study: CAFO impacts a mixed bag in communities Purdue study: CAFO impacts a mixed bag in communities Farmland Preservation Hit by Budget Squeeze President Wants New Financial Regulations Ag Groups Battle Food Safety 'Overkill' Two Threats to Agriculture Moving in Congress Brazil Conducts Sting at JBS and Others Brazil Conducts Sting at JBS and Others Save Money by Using the Right Forage for the Right Group of Cows Officials Saying Hog Surveillance Could Be Difficult Officials Saying Hog Surveillance Could Be Difficult Organic Agreement Reached with Canada USDA Wants to Hear More on Animal ID Issue USDA Wants to Hear More on Animal ID Issue Groups Claim New Bill is 'Property Grab' Groups Claim New Bill is 'Property Grab' Vilsack Taps Veteran to Head Forest Service GX1117 Offers Large Capacity and Flexibility USDA Rural Development Offers Renewable Energy Loans, Grants Hay Acres Will Stay About the Same DuPont Files Answer to Monsanto Lawsuit Pioneer, Beck's to Team Up for XL New Player Moves into Seed Treatment Market Climate Change Study Updates Ag Info Land Values Appear to Hold Strong Where Will We Get New Scientists? Climate Change Bill Vote Expected Soon Bill to Improve Food Safety Introduced Canadian Pork Producer Culls Herd Because of H1N1 Canadian Pork Producer Culls Herd Because of H1N1 Support for Biodiesel Continues to Grow MDA Awards $100,000 in Sustainable Agriculture Grants Another Ethanol Group Joins Growth Energy Preconditioning Could Help Calf Profitability Preconditioning Could Help Calf Profitability Vilsack Discusses Projects for Wood-to-Energy and Biomass Utilization Shell Oil Selling CE10 Vilsack Appoints Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Report 2009 Crop Acreage to USDA Farm Service Agency by June 30, 2009 Animals Not Responsible for H1N1 Outbreak Animals Not Responsible for H1N1 Outbreak New Intern selected for Minnesota Agri-Growth Council Weigh In on This More Grain Under the Big Top Farm Bureau Opposes Clean Water Restoration Act Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Ag Groups Still Focused on Climate and Energy Legislation More ARRA Funds Released County Committee Nominations Open Meat and Poultry Industry Big Contributor to U.S. Economy Meat and Poultry Industry Big Contributor to U.S. Economy Meat and Poultry Industry Big Contributor to U.S. Economy Harkin Calls on Officials to Push for Lift of Bans on U.S. Pork Harkin Calls on Officials to Push for Lift of Bans on U.S. Pork WPX Attendance Down but Participation Strong WPX Attendance Down but Participation Strong Management Considerations for Volunteer Corn New Test Available for Angus Influenced Cattle Keep Your Scouting Manual Handy McCormick Upgrades Its CX Tractor Line Waxman-Markey Bill Discussed in Ag Committee Spread of H1N1 Virus Officially a Pandemic USMEF Reports Pork-Beef Export Numbers USMEF Reports Pork-Beef Export Numbers USMEF Reports Pork-Beef Export Numbers Food Processors Fee Passes House Panel 4-H Flag Going on Space Mission Biofuels Conference focuses on Now and Future Ethiopian Scientist Wins 2009 World Food Prize Syngenta Acquires Bio-Control Technology Ag Subcommittee Holds Stimulus Hearing Hobbie Speaks at International Grains Conference Rural Development Grants Released Cap and Trade Study Released U-M Agronomy Field Tour at Waseca June 23 Raven Offers SmartRow and AccuRow NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State Indirect Land Use Hearing Held EPA Issues Stay on Permitting Grassley Looks to GIPSA Attorneys to Keep Anti-Competitive Behavior at Bay USTR Issues Cairns Statement AFBF Letter Supports Broadband Access MDA Offers Export Advice for Agribusinesses Monsanto, BASF Scientists Disclose Discovery of Gene Conferring Drought Tolerance In Corn Plants RFA Talks About RFS Hearing and Life-cycle Workshops USDA Meets Obama's Biofuels Directive Dairy Farmers Receiving Early Payments Dairy Farmers Receiving Early Payments Immigration Legislation May Happen Leaders Balk at Obama Request for H1N1 Vaccine Funding Major Fall Trade Shows Scheduled MDA Study Shows Dairy Industry Growth Is Steady Despite Challenges Plenish High Oleic Soybean Oil Offers Trans Fat Solution Plenish High Oleic Soybean Oil Offers Trans Fat Solution Grassley Wants to 'Show and Tell' EPA Regulation Writers Potential Benefits of Pending FTAs Studied On Recent Trip Indirect Land Use Will Not Be In Final EPA Proposal More Support for Agriculture in Cap and Trade Bill FAS Reports on Colombian Biofuels Industry Members Needed for Minnesota Organic Advisory Task Force Electric Service Improvements Funded by USDA NFU President Meets with Ag Secretary Lucas Asks Ag Secretary for Specifics on Cap and Trade Another USDA Deputy Undersecretary Named Additional Electronic Trading Hours at CBOT MPCA Targets $1.57 Million to Clean Up Diesel Engines Mathematical Models Help Predict Corn Production Hog Producers Face At Least Another Year Of Losses Hog Producers Face At Least Another Year Of Losses This Is Not A Happy Time For Pork Producers This Is Not A Happy Time For Pork Producers Farmers in 28 Minnesota Counties Qualify for Flood Disaster Assistance Biofuels Financial Conference to Focus on Financial State of Ethanol Industry Peterson Wants Ag Issues Resolved in Clean Energy Bill Senate Ag Committee to Discuss Derivatives, Speculation House Starts Work on Food Safety Overhaul Congress to Review Request for Additional Funding to Fight Flu Pandemic Virus Requires Changes at World Pork Expo Virus Requires Changes at World Pork Expo NPB Moving Forward with Programs NPB Moving Forward with Programs Emergency Action Plan Tool Announced at WPX Emergency Action Plan Tool Announced at WPX Outer Continental Shelf Renewable Energy Meetings Scheduled Secretary Vilsack Announces Two Conservation Programs USTR Ron Kirk Travels to Russia to Discuss Trade Issues H1N1 Now Confirmed in All 50 States Appropriations Take Center Stage in Washington Positive Bovine TB Test in Nebraska Positive Bovine TB Test in Nebraska Study Shows Impact of E15 Pork Checkoff Announces Leadership Program Participants Pork Checkoff Announces Leadership Program Participants USB and Soybean Checkoff Announce See for Yourself Participants Beef Recalls Announced Beef Recalls Announced New Resolution Raises Cattle Age Limits New Resolution Raises Cattle Age Limits Minnesota Senate Seat in Court's Hands Larger Farms Needed to Support Family Living BASF and DuPont Sue Each Other for Patent Infringement Illini Tractor Pullers Take Overall Design Competition Award Eastern Corn Belt Far Behind Planting Pace Chinese Pork Professionals Training in U.S. Chinese Pork Professionals Training in U.S. Pork Safety Committee Shows Support for Safe Feed/Safe Food Program Pork Safety Committee Shows Support for Safe Feed/Safe Food Program AMI Informs Canadian House of Commons of Food Safety Progress State Fair's Free 2009 Entertainment Lineup Announced Senate Ag Committee Hearing on Derivatives Set Census Report Reflects Watershed Boundaries USDA Releases Livestock Income Figures Annual Milk Production Reported Annual Milk Production Reported Dairy Industry Holding Rally Dairy Industry Holding Rally Deadline for Specialty Crop Assistance Funds Senators Attempt to Bring Climate Change Legislation to Floor President Responds to Biofuels Coalition Judith Canales Named to Rural Development Post Ag Secretary Announces $143 Million to Improve Infrastructure Across Rural America Hot Weather to Benefit Plains Minnesota Farmers Union Reacts to Legislative Session Online Tickets Available for 2009 Farm Progress Show Additional NAIS Listening Sites Named Rural Mental Health Study Released Growing Support for Biodiesel President Releases ARRA Funds for Energy Increased Costs for Food Production Facilities Under Proposed Legislation Benefits of No-Till Shown Through Field Study More Than 100 Century Farms Honored in 2009 We Test Drive Miller's Portable Plasma Cutter Load in Under 4 Feet! Broadband Strategy for Rural America Released Farmland Equipment Sales Slump To Lowest Level in Four Years Increased Production Goals in Morocco Opens Doors for U.S. Grain EPA Looks at Alternative Energy Production Biodiesel Safety a Priority Science Based Comments Being Prepared on RFS Homeowners Can Play Key Role in Slowing Emerald Ash Borer Delivering The Mash Goodyear Goes Off-road Europe Upset over USDA Export Allocation Move Europe Upset over USDA Export Allocation Move Comment Time Extended for E15 Request Colombia Trade Gets Farmer Scrutiny Register for the Agri-Growth Legislative Wrap Up Quick Change Artist from Kuhn House Committee Approves Climate Change Bill NPPC Supports Passage of Panama FTA NPPC Supports Passage of Panama FTA USDA offers Grants to Assist with Minnesota Value-Added Agriculture Projects Late Planting Doesn't Require As Many Seeds Per Acre AutoFarm Unveils Envizio Pro Midwest Farmland Values Plummet Livestock Marketing Fairness Act Introduced Livestock Marketing Fairness Act Introduced Renewable Power Passes Key Test RFS2 Under Review Grassley Introduces Companion to Peterson's Bill to Protect Biofuel Industry U.S. - Panama FTA Under Scrutiny New Food Safety Web Site Launched Ag in Classroom Seeks Donations for Programs Brinsea's New Incubator NFU Backs Increasing Ethanol Blend in Gasoline First Emerald Ash Borer Confirmed in Minnesota Could Soybeans Be Headed for 'Uncharted' 7.6 Million Acres? Study Shows Biotech Crops Good for the Environment Company Expands Wheat Milling Capacity U.S. Dairy Industry Groups Urge Passage of Cuba Trade Bills Milk Industry Unites Against Proposed Tax on Chocolate Milk Milk Industry Unites Against Proposed Tax on Chocolate Milk Important VeraSun Deadline Approaching Gensler Nomination Ratified House Members Speak Out Against Energy Plan South Koreans Turn Out H1N1 Vaccine President Announces New Energy Guidelines MPCA seeks Local Volunteers to Monitor Lakes Ag Manufacturers Make the Right Connections Ag Manufacturers Make the Right Connections CWT Auditors Start Taking Cows off Farms Beef Board Outlines Recommended Budget Beef Board Outlines Recommended Budget USDA Seeks Applications to Repair Rural Housing Farm Works Rolls Out New Web Site More Opposition to Current Climate Legislation EPA Extends Comment Period WHO Meeting Focusing on H1N1 Flu H1N1 Virus Mapped Funds Released to Protect Private Forests Minnesota Awards 2009 Siehl Prizes for Excellence in Agriculture Polaris Offers New Palette of Limited Edition Models AFBF PAL Class Announced Gestation and Veal Crates Banned in Maine USDA Funding Rural Community Facility Projects NCGA Concerned with Contents of Climate Change Bill Will You Trade, or be Capped? WHO Counters Virus Source Statement Vilsack Names New Deputy Administrator and Others Guest Worker Legislation Introduced Public Comment Sought for MPCA's Air Monitoring Network Plan Thunderstorm Season Adds Another Risk to Corn Canadian Officials Confirm Another BSE Case Bobcat Digs It With American-made Excavators China Investing in Agriculture Production NFU Wants Action on Climate Change Peterson Introduces Legislation to Protect Domestic Biofuel Industry Kuhn Offers Beefed-up Rotary Rakes MTGA Makes Board Appointments Biodiesel Better for Breathing Synchronized Biotech Introduction is Goal for Wheat Groups Tote That Bale With DewEze 165ss Scan-Kleen Filters Wash Easily CWT Announces Largest-Ever Herd Retirement Senate Blocks Confirmation of Interior Nominee Lucas Has Cap and Trade Concerns Democrats Relax House Emissions Bill Human Error May Have Caused H1N1 White House Food Safety Working Group Meeting Held U.S., EU Sign Beef Deal Corn Producers Elect Research & Promotion Council Members Ground Beef Recall Announced CWT Announces Largest-Ever Herd Retirement Secretary Appoints Another Deputy Undersecretary Princess Kay Finalists to Be Named Soybeans Up From March WASDE Confirms Strong Grain Markets Conditions Paradis to Serve as Administrator of Food and Nutrition Service EPA Says Indirect Emissions is Law EPA Administrator Testifies at Senate Hearing DuPont Receives Canadian Regulatory Approval for High Oleic Soybean Trait Ag Secretary Holds Rural Community Forums RFA Speaks Out About Greenhouse Gas Emission Rules TV For Women Farmers and Ranchers Introduced Ag Education Planned for Urban Reporters Canadian H1N1 Herd Culled New AMS Administrator Announced Agriculture Income Tax Update for Farm Families Cool, Damp Weather Slows Planting More to the Story of Mapping the Cow Genome Whole Genome Not the Whole Story Pork Board Working to Reinforce That Pork is Safe to Eat OMB Provides Insight into President's Ag Budget Proposal States Receive Grants to Strengthen National School Meals Programs Census Data Broken Down by Congressional District Minnesota Increases the Amount of Biodiesel in Its Diesel Supply Outback Offers New Big Screen NMPF To Form Strategic Planning Task Force To Examine Solutions To Dairy Challenges Researchers Find Better TSE Test Hog Operating Losses Have Skyrocketed Since H1n1 Virus Does Starter Fertilizer Become Less Critical Later in Season? Feds Ready H1N1 Contingency Plan for Hogs and Poultry Members Reappointed to Dairy Advisory Committee WASDE Report Changes Announced USDA Offers Rural Development Loans and Grants AFBF Not Happy with US-EU Beef Agreement Senate Committee Holds Cap and Trade Hearing Farm Bureau Asks for Section 32 Support for Pork Russia Continues to Manipulate Pork Imports CWT Bid Period Closes US-EU Beef Agreement Doesn't Do Enough Vilsack Meets With Dairy Producers Bovine Genome Map Already Helps Producers EPA Scientific Advisory Panel Report on Optimum AcreMax 1 House Holds Hearing On Indirect Land Use Change USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources Named More Staff at USDA Announced New GIPSA Director Announced DFA Representatives Get Reassurances from Secretary USDA Sets Aside Funds for Lawsuit Settlement Outback 185 Takes Power to the Job Site EU and US Reach Provisional Agreement in Beef Dispute New Food Inspection Directive Released Time to Settle Pigford - Glickman Case Bovine Genome Map Already Helps Producers Bovine Genome Map Already Helps Producers First Step Toward Resolving Two Decade Beef Dispute H1N1 May Impact Beef Too Despite Sick Pigs H1N1 Seems to be Winding Down House Ag and Homeland Security Committees Review Nation Animal ID Weather Has Delayed Field Work in Corn Belt Forestland Dollars Released EPA Proposes Renewable Energy Goals Follow BMPs and Atrazine Setbacks Horse Slaughter Bill Now Montana Law ISU Says California Law Negative to Corn Pork Industry Asking USDA for Help Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Monsanto Files Lawsuit Against DuPont, Pioneer Funds Available to Support Organic Farming USDA, EPA and DOE Form Biofuels Interagency Working Group Petition to Request Checkoff Referendum Put Forward Rural America is Underinsured R-CALF Encourages Participation in Listening Sessions Minnesota FFA Honors State Stars H1N1 Winding Down Despite Sick Pigs Beef Could Be Impacted by H1N1 Baucus to Introduce Cuban Trade Bill Results of How Farmers Are Viewed Released Flu Found in Canadian Pigs Minnesota State Cattlemen Seek New Executive Director Financial Strain Expected Due To H1N1 Influenza AAA Dismayed at Animal Rights Groups CRP Extension Available for Many Expiring Contracts National Animal ID Listening Sessions Set Pork's Return to Profitability Likely to Take Longer Why Dow AgroSciences Technology Is Big Step Forward Farm Bureau Supports Raising Blend Wall New Manure System Exceeds Environmental Standards Another Name for H1N1 Virus Hormone Free U.S. Beef to EU? Rural America Solutions Group Formed Technology Grants Available for Southern Minnesota Dairy Producers EU May Accept U.S. Beef USDA Helps North Dakota Livestock Industry Subcommittee Investigates Civil Rights at USDA Ag Department Appointments Reviewed Thursday Flood Relief Announced for Red River Valley Alert Level is One Notch Below Pandemic NFU, NCGA Favor Cap and Trade System 2010 Budget Resolution Passes Out of Congress USDA Issues 100 Day Report Grants Are Available to Help Rural Businesses Dow AgroSciences Confirms Precise Genome Modification in Maize Weather Causes More Spring Planting Delays Flu Continues to Spread Beyond North America Black Farmers Protest at USDA American Grown Goodness Program Begins Canada Begins WTO Action Against U.S Minnesota Dairy Promotion Group Elects Officers COOL Being Challenged By Canada COOL Being Challenged By Canada COOL Being Challenged By Canada Broadband Grant Applications Being Accepted Rural Water Projects Announced Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Funds Available Good Start to Corn Planting Baseless Bans of U.S. Pork Have Already Happened Government Watching North American Influenza Situation EAB Threat Prompts Quarantine in Houston County Water Research and Development Act Passes House NSP Clarifies Failed Crop Clause 'North American Influenza' Spreads Several Countries Have Stopped U.S. Pork Imports Congressional Committees Looking into Influenza Situation Fear That Flu Could Develop into Pandemic is Driving Markets Lower Deere Offers Tier 3 Reman Engines Ag Secretary Addresses Flu Situation SA Flex Eases Loading Minnesota's March Milk Production Up 2% California Ethanol Move Sparks Strong Reaction ACRE Sign-up Finally Begins FSIS Administrator Wants Risk Ranking Food Safety Legislation Could Be Next Congress Has Tentative Budget Deal CCC Announces Crop Loan Rates Know What You're Paying For in Stacked Hybrids National Pork Board Urges Increased Bio-Security Plans Swine Flu Confirmed in Southwest Checkoff Helps Drive Consumer Interest in Beef Middle Meats CARB Approves Low Carbon Fuel Standard Free Wildlife Signs Available to Rural Residents FDA Sets Final Feed Rules Food Safety Requires Public-Private Partnership USDA to Check Changing Face of Agriculture Genome Sequence Sheds Light On Ruminant Evolution FDA to Implement Feed Ban Despite Public Objections Midwest Dairy Association Elects Officers Beef Checkoff-funded Veal Retail Campaign Going Strong Don't Panic Yet Just Because You Can't Plant Corn Ag Committee Reviews Crop Insurance Program USDA Awards $85 million for Shovel-Ready Watershed Projects Obama Presents Alternative Energy and Jobs Plan Draft Energy Bill Reviewed on Capitol Hill EPA Releases Review of Climate Bill USDA Civil Rights Agenda Outlined by Ag Secretary Don't Have a Dairy Budget? Get $1,500 Vilsack Addresses Concerns About EPA Finding California's Decision on Low Carbon Fuel Standard Will Impact Entire Country Winter Wheat Progress Not Fairing Well Minnesota Sunflower Growers to Form Research and Promotion Council HHS Nominee Passes Senate Committee Hearing Bill Banning Antibiotics in Animals Passes Committee Rural Development Funds Released Earth Day Celebration Covering Several Days Agriculture Feeling the Impact of Recession EPA Greenhouse Gas Decision Draws More Unfavorable Reactions Interior Department Distributes Restoration Funds NCGA Files Comments on Proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standards Vilsack Returns from G8 Meeting Obama Administration to Cut Expenses at Cabinet Level U-M St. Paul Hosts State FFA Convention USDA Economist Talks Ag Economy Dairy Farmer Interest High in Herd Retirement Program EPA Issues Finding That Greenhouse Gasses Pose Threat U.S. and Mexico to Collaborate on Climate and Clean Energy President Makes Two More USDA Nominations Report Recommends Changes to Food Safety System Canadians Ready with WTO Challenge Vilsack Calls for Investment in Ag Develpment to G8 Agricultural Ministerial EPA Wants Input on Raising Ethanol Blend Wall Delegation Provides U.S. View on Global Food Security at G8 Lawsuit Attempting to Limit Ethanol Blending Is Dismissed Vilsack Taps Environment and Climate Advisor Iowa Legislation Would Set Alternative Fuel Standard State Fair Grandstand Entertainment Announced Miller Wildcat Provides Welder/generator CBO Ethanol Report Discussed by Agricultural Organizations Stimulus Money for Natural Resources Conservation Announced New Grant Program Awarding Up to $250,000 2009 Word Food Prize Symposium Theme Announced AFBF Addresses Broadband Funding & Services USDA Asking Questions About Animal Identification Farm Sector Economy Stronger than Other Sectors USDA Continues to Fill Staff Positions Nebraska Has First Ethanol Blender Pumps Prices Favorable for Chinese Purchase of U.S. Corn Lifting Cuban Travel Restrictions Good 'First Step' GMO Corn Banned in Germany New Study: No Significant Fuel Pump Performance With E20 WaterScout Keeps Tabs on Field Moisture AFBF Outlines Goals for Climate Change No General CRP Sign-up In 2009 Russia Shuffles Eligible U.S. Pork Plants FAS Adds Country Pages to Web Site Major Storms Sweeping Across U.S. John Deere Announces New Global Operating Model for Sustainable Growth Scuse Named Deputy Under Secretary of FFAS Lean Pork Weighs In Just in Time for Swimsuit Season Haul With/Without Passengers With New Kubota Winter Wheat Heading May Indicate Southern Plains Condition Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council Announces National Reproduction Awards EPA Responds to Request for Review of Pesticide Rule President Loosens Some Cuban Related Controls India Balking on Carbon Sequestration Military Studies Alternative Energy Duckweed Could Replace Corn in Ethanol Minnesota on Alert after Wisconsin Reports Emerald Ash Borer Near La Crosse Vilsack Unveils Updated Research, Education and Economics Information System FFAS Deputy Under Secretary Choosen February Beef Exports Maintain Strong Momentum Supermarkets, Commissaries Support Pork Promotions Delay of Feed Ban Rule Proposed by FDA FDA Wants to Delay Feed Ban Rule Food Safety Progress Not Where CDC Would Like USDA Names Under Secretaries and Additional Staff Groups Step In Where EPA Won't Changes Coming in Marketing Assistance Loans Officials Warn of Disease Risk From Handling Baby Chicks, Ducklings Set Up Field Trials Carefully Turkey Growers' Association Announces President, Executive Committee NPPC Wants Russia's WTO Accession Slowed Canada Wants WTO Help with South Korean Beef Dispute New Zealand Ambassador to Head Ag Negotiations CBO Report Shows Ethanol Has Little Impact on Food Prices Red River Valley Bracing for More High Water NPPC Wants Russia's WTO Accession Slowed Broadband Access Plan Under Development ACRE Sign-up Start Date Finally Set USDA Officials Sworn into Office Registration Deadline for Nutrient Management Program Is April 24 Drought Impacting Winter Wheat Conditions Study Shows 29,000 Cooperatives Employ More Than 2 Million Meat and Poultry Inspection is Not Broken NPPC Calls for Corn-Ethanol Study McDonald's Japan Sells with Aus NLIS Support for PQA Plus Gains Momentum Aventine Renewable Energy is Latest to File Bankruptcy Obama Pressured to Let Mexican Truckers Through Ag Secretary Announces $17 Million in Grants for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers MAL and LDP Programs Have New Regulations Senators Want Stiff Payment Requirements Nut Problems with Salmonella Expand Poultry Organizations File Suit Against EPA DCP and ACRE Sign-Up Deadlines Extended Wireless Monitoring With Vision Works Dairy Farmers of America Earns National Recognition From Dannon FDA Ignoring Environmental and Economic Impacts of Feed Ban Senate Ag Leadership Express Concern Over Pesticide Ruling Congress in Recess But Plenty of Work Awaits Funding Released to Rehabilitate Flood Control Structures Experts Focus on Real World Climate Change Costs Some Biotech Testing Ends in Japan Cotton Industry Wants No Program Changes Corn Prices Up While Soybeans Drop Massey Ferguson Offers Six New Compact Tractor Models Soybean Ambassador Program Seeks Nominations Farm Progress to Expand Husker Harvest Days Show Agriculture Promotion Councils Seek Candidates for Upcoming Elections G20 Communiqué Says Global Crisis Needs Global Solution Poultry Products Recalled Bill Promoting Pipelines Introduced Lucas Rejects Democratic Budget SNAP Benefits Increased to Combat Hunger Nitrogen Sensing Moves Closer to Commonplace Extension Fact Sheets Address Issues Facing Dairy Farms and How to Manage Them LibertyLink Soybeans Approved for Import into Korea BQ-9000 Program Unveiled FY 2010 Budget Passes House Climate Change Measure Won't Place Economy at Global Disadvantage Food Safety Focus Begins for House Ag Committee Base Acreage on Federal Land Reinstated Sugar Alliance Wants Sugar Quota to Remain Unchanged Job Loss Brings New Tax Issues to Consider Harden Chosen to Head USDA Congressional Relations House Ag Committee Reviewing Food Safety HOBOnode Does It Wirelessly Klobuchar Announces Help for Minnesota Dairy Farmers Inaccurate Facts and Omissions Contradict EC Duties on Biodiesel MILC Payments Being Calculated VP And Ag Secretary Announce Recovery Funds Possible Source of Pistachio Contamination Found Dow, Syngenta to Cross-License Crop Tech Vilsack Testifies on Ag Issues Within Administration's Budget Pork Producers Pleased by USDA Pork Purchases 2009 Custom Rate Survey Available Senate Ag Committee to Hold Hearing on Four Nominations Farm Bureau Wants Cuba Restrictions Lifted Senate Ag Committee Addresses Child Nutrition Silage Management Tips as Temperatures Rise Setton Pistachio Announces Recall Feds Announce Yamaha Recall of Rhino 450 and 600s ACRE and DCP Sign-up Extended Minnesotans to Receive Recovery Dollars Dairy Farmers of America Marks 11 Years of Industry Service At Annual Meeting President Signs Public Lands Law Farm Bureau Opposed to Proposed H-2A Changes USDA Seeks Comments on Conservation Grants GPS Steering Makes the Job Easier Poly Diker From May Wes Budget Sent to Floor Recommendations to be Released at Energy Summit Dam Hearing Set Rust Resistance Possible Dairy Strategies for 2009 Meeting in Avon April 7 Pork Act Delegates Overwhelmingly Support Pork Quality Assurance Plus Hog Numbers Shrink Cargill Advances Animal Welfare Leadership Final Stand Counts When It Comes to Cornfields President Obama Issues Federal Emergency Declaration for Red River Valley Flooding Continues In Upper Midwest NCGA Forms Climate Change Task Force Bill Introduced to Change Cuban Payment Rule Bill to Establish Wildfire Fund Passes House EPA Nominee Steps Down Lower Milk Prices Mean Revisiting Feed Costs U.S. Firefighters Honored for Work in Australia Monsanto Issues Grant for Scholarships USDA Moves to Help Dairy Sector and Nutrition Programs E15 Blends Could Create More Than 3,000 New Jobs in Minnesota Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Conservation Payments Cellulosic Ethanol Executives Push for 15% Blend Farm Bureau, Others, Against California Carbon Score Proposal OMB Director Backs Subsidy Caps Derivatives Bill Gains Support Control Powdery Mildew Red Meat Industry Quick to Refute Study Second Quarter Hog Slaughter Projected Down 5% EPA Says Greenhouse Gasses Are Pollutants Grassley Wants FDA Memo Clarified Obama Talks Energy Alternatives Minnesota Takes Action to Prepare for Possible Red River Valley Flooding USDA Staff Appointments Made USDA Announces Another Position USTR Already at Work Poultry Being Euthanized in Texas Poultry Being Euthanized in Texas Russians Ban Poultry from Three U.S. Processors Federal Truck Weight Law Introduced Renewable Energy Summit to Be Held FAS Administrator Named WTO Economists: World Trade Down Auctioneer Opens New Auction Site Vilsack Talks About Stimulating Rural Economy Trade Officials See WTO Agreement Still Has Potential Broadband Leader named for USDA Rice Growers Could See More Exports to Cuba Senators Line Up to Support Food for Peace Program Low-yielding Spots Hurt Overall Yield Group Urges Obama Administration to Take Action in Dairy Crisis USDA, IRS Join Forces Pork Checkoff Offers Management Conference Cellulosic Firms Back Higher Ethanol Blends House Ag Committee Wants Input on Climate Change AgStar Lending Sees Potential Buyers for Ethanol Assets VeraSun Deals Get Court's Stamp of Approval Conference on Food Aid Focuses on Global Crisis Hearings Set to Talk About High-Speed Web Access Midwest Dairy Producers Educate 10,000 Community Leaders McCormick Turns Corner, Sees Solid Future EU Offers More Beef Imports to End Hormone Dispute New ACRE Tools Available from FSA Program Already Available for Humane Animal Treatment VeraSun Asset Sale Draws Plenty of Bidders U-M Symposium Considers Climate Change, Plant Disease Grain Industry Monitors New Mexican Tariff Plan Disaster Assistance Offered by USDA Today is National Biodiesel Day - Celebrate! Group Applauds Antibiotic Resistance Bill New Report Looks at Swine Gestation Systems New Survey Shows Corn Planting Intentions Slip 4% for 2009 Another Ethanol Producer on Financial Ropes Bipartison Group Calls on EPA to Go Slow on Ethanol Rules Midwest Dairy Association Names Six to Scientific Advisory Council Scientists Develop New 'Triple Threat' Corn Agco to Use Topcon Tierra for Telematics AutoFarm Announces Upgrade Program Purdue Experts Question Antibiotic Resistance Claims Beef Group Pulls Out of Food vs. Fuel Coalition President Nominates Two More to USDA Rule on Non-Ambulatory Cattle Finalized Celebrate National Ag Week Plant Corn in the Mud Not the Answer Community-Owned Wind Farm Planned in Big Stone County Coalition Opposes Cuts in Safety Net House Ag Committee Wants Many Viewpoints Interior Secretary Orders Renewable Energy Projects Questions Pile Up from WTO Members Grants for Energy Audits Available House Agriculture Committee Adopts Budget Letter Rural Development Funds Electrical Upgrade Loans Webcast for Pork Producers on Animal Welfare Dairy Markets Are a Concern Cow Tax Legislation Now Has House Companion Good News for DDGS Exports Democratic Senators Unveil Rural Agenda Labor and Tax Issues Key to Panama Agreement Committee Hearing on Animal ID Cruelty, Neglect Cases in Horses on the Rise Pork Checkoff Honors Sam Hines with Distinguished Service Award 2008 Pork Industry Environmental Steward Award Winners Announced Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID CWT Achieves Membership Goal of Two-Thirds of U.S. Milk Supply Purdue Economists Present Update on Factors Driving Food Prices NFU Meeting Wraps Up Kirk Testifies Before Senate Committee Broadband Initiative Begins State Fairgrounds Hosts Dozens of Events This Spring and Summer Aerial Deer Removal Begins March 16 in Bovine TB Area Greenseeker Q and A Johnson Wins Farmer Union Election; ND to Get New Ag Commissioner New NPPC Officers Elected First E. Coli Vaccine for Cattle Licensed Officials Throw Support Behind Higher Ethanol Blend House Agriculture Committee Reviewing National Animal Identification System National Farmers Union Electing New President U-M Study Shows New Energy and Economic Benefits of Corn Stover Air Delivery by Gandy FAPRI Reports to Congress Vilsack Announces Release of Recovery Funds Allotted to USDA Broadband Initiative Announcement Scheduled New Info on U-M Dairy Extension Web Site Report Shows Benefits to Raising Ethanol Blend Limit Chile DDG Test Results Favorable Starter Fertilizer Question Hinges on Planting Date National Pork Board Honors Producers During Annual Meeting Cooperative Network to host Co-op Day at the Capitol AFBF Leader Asks for Liberal Trade Policy Senators Introduce Legislation to Tackle Cow Tax USSEC Names Interim CEO Purdue Economist Advises Being Conservative and Defensive EPA Seeks Farmer Cooperation FDA Overhaul Bill Presented Minnesota Pheasants Forever Honors Individual and Chapter Efforts On-the-spot pH Accuracy CCC Rates Announced for March Dow AgroSciences, Schillinger Seed Announces Licensing, R&D Animal Improvement Grants Issued Administration Releases Trade Policy Agenda Johnson Throws Hat in NFU Ring More Tax Troubles for Presidential Nominees Texas Places Controls on Incoming Bulls Philippine Pork Market to Remain Open Obama to Appoint Sebelius to HHS Post See for Yourself Tour Accepting Participants Producers Favor Biotech Traits in Wheat Philippine Pork Market to Remain Open MFU Board of Directors Passes Special Order on Dairy Industry DNR Seeks Input on Shoreland Agriculture Beef Exports up in 2008 Report Quantifies Animal Agriculture Attacks Cheese Can Help to Reduce Risk Of Certain Cancers, Research Finds Addressing Consumer Demands For Socially Responsible Pork Production Pork Checkoff Offers Pork Management Conference - Your Pork Industry Investment New Beef Videos Canadian Cattlemen Ready to Move Against COOL Bobcat Company and Polaris Industries Inc. Announce Long-Term Strategic Alliance Late-planted Corn Lodged Easier Last Fall Apply for Burning Permits Online Seed.Pro Streamlines Seed Processing Supplemental Revenue Assistance Buy-In Is Reopened Canadian Cattlemen Ready to Move Against COOL Canadian Cattlemen Ready to Move Against COOL U.S. Sorghum Going to Canada Senators Want Delay in Chinese Cotton Registry Federal Drought Action Team Activated ASA Voting Delegates Set Policy Direction SmartStax Corn Trait Expected for 2010 Planting Gross Sales Will Be Used for Payment Limits EPA Approves AVICTA Seed Treatment Fungicide Dairy Prices Will Trigger MILC Payments NCGA President Dickey Reviews the 2008 Corn Year Researchers Credit Soybean Group for Genome Support Go On-Line to Measure Your Farm's Health Farm Earnings to Fall Ag Budget To Hold About Steady ASA Leaders Address USDA Inspector General Investigation Updated Regulations Give Ice Anglers More Fishing Time Monsanto Launches Genuity Brand for Seed Products Monsanto Launches Genuity Brand for Seed Products Minnesota January Milk Output Up 2% NFU President Stepping Down Hearing Held on CFTC Nominee Fed Chair Cautious in Statement on Economy ASA Bars USSF Delegates Agrium Launches Bid to Buy CF Industries Spring Sheep Workshop Offers Hands-on Activities Time to Order Fertilizer Hearing on USTR Possible Next Week Court Decides to Regulate Farm Dust Governors Want Blend Wall Lifted New Study Emphasizes the Need for Farmers to Sharpen Financial Skills Obama Pledges to Cut Deficit in Half Senate Committee Members Want Review of Cuba Policy Argentine Farmers Strike Continues Announcements from President Obama Expected Ag Outlook Forum This Week USDA Encourages Voluntary COOL Practices USDA Encourages Voluntary COOL Practices USDA Encourages Voluntary COOL Practices All-electric Bad Boy Final COOL Rule to Go Into Effect as Planned Organizations React to End of Merger President Signed Energy Agreement with Canada Congress Holding Hearings on Several Issues Minnesota Farm Bureau Salutes and Supports FFA How to Make The Same Hybrid Look Different National FFA Week Coming Up Fertilizer Shortage Could Hinder Corn Crop Court Approves VeraSun Auction JBS Deal With National Beef Falls Through USDA Cattle on Feed Report Coming Friday Groups Respond to JBS Announcement Sustainable Food Lab Announces Conference Obama Makes First Foreign Trip as President Not Enough Interest in Pork Checkoff Referendum Free Agricultural Literacy Producer Training Klobuchar, Dairy Producers Discuss Falling Prices Kinda Cuban Showcases Pork at Tropical Smoothie Cafe Montana Offers P-Series Vet Shortage Continues Report Card Issued On Beef Checkoff Program Obama Administration Wants Stronger COOL Less Nitrogen Could Increase Profit, Sustainability Pioneer Rolls Out New Umbrella Brand Hypertherm Unveils Portable Plasma Cutter Obama Signs Stimulus Bill into Law Pharmaceuticals Pay Dividends Trilateral Meeting Uncovers Common Goals Weaker Land Prices Are Forecast for 2009 Sesquicentennial Farm Applications Due April 1 Livestock Losses Limited by Pharmaceutical Technology Pork Checkoff Referendum Won't Be Held CWT Finishes Latest Herd Retirement Round Web Site Promotes Careers in Pork Production ReinTech is Born to Reinke and Pivotrac Jaguar Harvester Gets New Options Farmers Invited to Attend Managing Manure for Profit Workshop Economic Recovery Package Going to President Moran Supports OCS Development PCA Files for Chapter 7 Protection John Deere Risk Protection Offers New Crop Delivery Contract Policy DFA Takes Action to Help Members Peanut Recall Will Expand Groups Meet to Discuss Cattle Industry JBS Abandons National Beef Acquisition How Thick To Plant Still a Hot Topic Robotics, Genomics Focus of Dairy Meeting Who Should Control Internet Dollars in Stimulus? Not Just the Internet – YouTube Livestock Coalition Meets With USDA Farm Sector Poised for Long-Term Growth Stimulus Package Goes to the Floor Corn and Ethanol Industries Fire Back Following Ethanol Attacks U-M Extension offers Woodland Owners Land Transfer Course Transparency in Markets Bill Passes Committee Acquisition of National Beef by JBS Terminated Another Cabinet Member Withdraws Nomination Obama Administration Refocusing on Resources China Became Largest Pork Importer in History in 2008 No Single Factor Driving Beef Demand Carbon Footprints from Dairying are Modest Chairman Peterson Introduces Speculation Bill More Farmers Choosing Biotech Crops Major Agreements Made to Stimulus Package Second PCA Plant Closed Nominees Sought for Abraham Lincoln National Agricultural Awards Senate Passes Stimulus Bill Vilsack Supports Single Food Safety Agency PorkBridge Begins March 5 Livestock and Dairy Prices Down in USDA Report CAFTA-DR Improving Trade Numbers USDA announces Planting Transferability Pilot Project in Minnesota Senate Ends Stimulus Debate February USDA Reports Drawing A Lot of Interest New Disc Chisel from Landoll Senators Ask Ag Secretary to Implement AGI and Payment Limit Reforms Vilsack Says Expect Change Global Grain Market Important to U.S. Farmers MDA: Remember State Rules for On-farm Fertilizer Storage VeraSun Seeks Authority to Sell Assets Pork Serves Up Affordable Mealtime Solutions Corn after Beans Yields More than Corn after Corn - True or False? EPA Reopens California Greenhouse Emissions Decision Agriculture Projections to be Released NFU Wants Economic Review Global Award for Cooperative Excellence Challenges Facing the Pork Industry Gardiner Angus Ranch Launches Educational Internet Video Series Beef Industry Announces Awards USDA Moves Against PCA Senate Holds Food Safety Hearing DNR, NWTF Expand Youth Turkey Hunting Opportunities TTX Series Complete Specialization in Livestock Projection Continues Diversity a Major Point in Ag Census Data Iowa USDA Labs Are Being Investigated U-M Study shows Cellulosic Ethanol Benefits Winter Wheat Condition Runs the Gamut EU Critical of ACRE Program Ag Census Shows Number of Farms Increases, But So Does Concentration Agco Causes Explosion in the Georgia Dome! Stimulus Includes Funding for USDA Modernization and Biofuels Money in the PIPE Guiding Principles for Biodiesel Sustainability Unveiled Bill to Address Merger Problems Introduced House Holds Hearing on Market Transparency Bill Minnesota Hunters Harvest Fewer Deer in 2008 MCGA Releases Technical Evaluation of California's Vehicle Standards New Cattle Trends You Must Know Payments Made to Producers Holding Bad Claims FSA Conducting Lamb Referendum CCC Rates Announced for February Vermeer Founder Passes Away at Age 90 Drop in milk prices Fifth Annual Cold Climate Grape and Wine Conference Coming Up TB Buyout Program Removes More Than 6,200 Cattle Bill Introduced to Close Hedge Fund Loophole Grants Will Help Socially Disadvantaged Carolinians Named National Stewards Gregg on Short List for Commerce Secretary Negotiations with JBS Swift May Take a While Sort Through Mixed Signals on Planting Date Merial Surehealth Limited Warranty Updated Nufarm Expands Glyphosate Portfolio with Continued Innovation U-M, Pork Board Offers 'Mock' PQA Plus Site Assessments Look Further Ahead, Be Happy Massive Peanut Butter Products Recall Announced VeraSun Meets With Farmers Who Owns DNA Test Data? EPA Approves Plant Health Label for Fungicide National Pork Board to Meet in North Carolina Extension Offers Updated Web Site on 2008 Farm Bill Spring Deworming the Best Legislation Introduced to Stop FMD at the Border Partial Support Payments Coming Soon Sale and Disposal Rules Delayed Partnership will Clean Up Illinois River Watershed No Change to Interest Rates Retroactive Rangeland Carbon Credits Deadline is Friday Funding Needed for Lock and Dam Upgrade Brazil Authorizes HERCULEX I Corn Farm Resource Guide Available Speculation on New Head for FSIS WTO Official Speaks Out Grassley's Wind Energy Proposals Rejected DFA Assumes Responsibilities Of Cal-West Dairymen, Inc. Cooperative Network to Host Youth Conference Vilsack Holds First Press Conference Senate Finance Takes Up Stimulus Package Federal Crop Insurance Clarification Sought U.S. Meat Exports Holding Up AccuBoom Remote Section Control 2009 Cattle Industry Annual Convention in Phoenix More Protectionism Possible, Policy Expert Predicts NMPF Urges Congress, Obama Administration to Focus Immediately on Dairy Crisis Manure a Costly Option for Dairy's Uncertain Future Dairy Cow Numbers Trend Downward In 2009 QUINTEC Fungicide Now Labeled for Use in Peppers Dairy Industry Prepares to Visit Colorado for 2009 Similar Population Study Finds Different Results President Meets With Congressional Leaders Groups Ask for Free Trade with Cuba NFU Wants All Factors of Trade Addressed Biofuels Cleaner Than Earlier Studies Showed Irrigators Could Benefit From Satellite Information Harkin Has Some Reservations About CFTC Nominee Central Bi-Products Will Continue Rendering Service Vilsack Selects Chief of Staff Beware of Contagious Equine Metritis Blame Wheat Prices, Not Corn NCBA Opposes Dairy Buyout in Stimulus Package Ag Committee Power Shifts to Plains Farm Bureau Wants Internet, Roads and Rivers Funded Agriculture Committee Chair Peterson Announces Committee Members Bill Would Defer Estate Tax on Family Farms Trimble Unleashes Major Product Array 2009 National Pork Industry Forum Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey Mailed U.S. Soybean Exports Still High R-CALF USA Worried by Peru FTA Obama Administration to Review Country-Of-Origin Regulations Confirmation Delayed for Environmental Appointments House Wants to Meet with Obama on Stimulus Package USDA Seeks Comments on Wetlands Reserve Program Vilsack Confirmed as Secretary of Agriculture Ethanol Plants for Sale Stimulus to Give USDA $250 Million for Upgrade World Wheat Numbers Have Turned Around Ag Disaster Assistance Announced for Wilkin, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Traverse Counties NPPC Files Suit Against EPA FSA Announces Crop Disaster Sign Up USTR Talks Trade, Doha Heavy-duty Lubricant Brand Celebrates 80th Anniversary Interior Drafts Offshore Oil Drilling Plan Better Corn Stands Mean More Bushels President Implements Peru TPA Argentina Increasing Grain Beef Herd Loan Guarantee Approved for Commercial Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Signup for Conservation Innovation Grants Announced Minnesota Milk Producers Hosts Upcoming Dairy Management Workshops COOL Challenges Likely Canada Puts Hold on WTO Complaint Against U.S. EU Rejects U.S. Move on Trade Environmental Quality Incentives Program Amended DuPont and Athenix Collaborate to Advance Insect Control First Seed Treatment Nematicide Receives Registration for Use on Corn National Pork Board Names 2009 Celebrated Chefs Hurt Says Livestock Producers Will Continue To Hurt In 2009 Hurt Says Livestock Producers Will Continue To Hurt In 2009 Hurt Says Livestock Producers Will Continue To Hurt In 2009 Minnesota Retail Food Prices Drop Below National Average National Ag Day Essay Contest Call For Entries Europe Must Eventually Accept Biotech Farm Bureau Delegates Set Policy Vilsack Faces Senate Ag Committee ASA Submits Policy Priorities Hay Expo Returns to Wisconsin NPPC Supports Changes To Animal ID System Decision to Place Biosecurity Lab At K-State Is Final MDA Reports Positive Economic News About Corn and Ethanol Coalition of Organizations Backs Increased Funding of Agriculture Clean Energy Renewable Fuels Association Provides Outlook for Ethanol in 2009 Today's Rural Americans Aren't as Fit as Urban Americans BASF Plant Science Signs Up Two Brands to Market Corn Hybrids With NutriDense Mixed Reactions to COOL Regulations Secretary of Agriculture Reflects on His Tenure Ag Making Progress in Reducing Environmental Impact Economist Sees Another Year of Struggle for Livestock Producers Final Rule for COOL Published Immigration Workshop in St. Paul USB Chairman Comments on Checkoff Investigation Economist Sees Lower Crop Prices in 2009 AutoFarm Introduces OnTrac2 GPS Assisted Steering System U.S. Grains Council generates $56.4 million for Minnesota Growers American Farm Bureau Ready to Work With New Administration Grain Exports Face Challenges In 2009 USSF Responds to ASA Press Release All Things Considered, Ag Sector in Good Shape Biodiesel Capable of Meeting RFS Shortfall VeraSun Energy Shuts Three Plants Minnesota Soybean Leaders Help Form New Group IronPlanet Announces First European Online Auction New Soybean Organization Formed Ag Secretary Summarizes Administration Accomplishments U-M Crops Days Set for January 14, 15, 16 Dairy Farmers' Dilemma High Interest in January USDA Report Obama Looking for New Commerce Candidate Schafer Signs Final Rule for COOL Schuster Receives MCIA Achievement in Crop Improvement Award Corn, Soybean Prices Drop USDA Recommend Audit of Soybean Checkoff NAWG Surveying Producers on Biotech Traits Save the Family Farm and Ranch Act Introduced Obama Stimulus Package Being Promoted Monsanto Outlines Development Pipeline Weather Channel and Monsanto Launch Farmer-oriented Service Minnesota FFA Foundation Elects New Trustees Cattle Importers Waiting on Mexico NCGA Wants Doha Movement Crop Insurance Industry Prepares For More Scrutiny Corn Research and Promotion Council Referendum Set for January 8-9 at Ag Expo World Economy Will Play Major Role in Agriculture Vilsack Confirmation Hearing Set More U.S. Farmers May Plant Soybeans NCBA Names New CEO U-M Extension Sets Dairy Days Workshop Schedule NCBA Names New CEO NCBA Names New CEO Mexico Wants to Change Shipments of U.S. Beef Mexico Wants to Change Shipments of U.S. Beef Connor Named to Head NCFC Mexico Wants to Change Shipments of U.S. Beef Two Minnesota Farm Families Win MDA Good Farm Neighbor Award Group Criticizes EQIP Program Non-Organic Fertilizer Made it Into Foods Dry Weather Hits Southern Brazil Hog and Pig Inventory Down Former USB Chairmen Speak Out U-M Hosts Conservation Tillage Conference in Morton Pioneer Makes Acquisition to Enhance Information Solutions for Growers Bee Losses May Have Single Cause Upper Illinois Rivers Locks Still Closed Nitrogen Rate Study Held True to Form Hormel to Buy Only PQA Plus Hogs China Sets Export Quota Limit Mexico Lifts Meat Import Restrictions for Some Plants How Much Grain do You Give Away? Premise Registration Requirement Cancelled Film Festival Added to Minnesota Organic Conference Line-up Top Soybean Yields Goes Beyond Plots USDA Scholars Program Open for 2009 Academic Year Could Two Major Grain Groups Merge? VeraSun Lender Seeks to Regain Lien Winter Weather Stressing Livestock Grassley Against Russian Admittance to WTO Ports Association Wants Part of Recovery Package Gerlach Named Executive Director of State Corn Organziations What Demand Exists for Soybeans in 2009? Nominations Sought for Minnesota FFA Hall of Fame Organic Cotton Acres on the Rise AMPI Pays $11.9 Million to Farmer-owners European Union Seeks Consultations on Hormone-Treated Beef ASA Sees ACRE Program as Positive Acting Undersecretary of Rural Development Named U-M Publishes 2009 Varietal Trials Info Higher Costs Unfold as Dairy Tech is Removed Beef Sector Sees Lower Returns and Margins Despite Smaller Inventories Last Month's Milk Production Forecast Lowered Bayer CropScience Continues Growing Strong Program Growers Get More Answers on VeraSun Minnesota November Milk Production Up 2% Special Late-Season Deer Hunt Allowed in TB Area AMPI Pays $11.9 Million to Farmer-Owners Milk Production Numbers Lowered EPA Partnership Issues Grant Applications Gates Foundation Supports School Meals Abroad Interim Final Rule Issued by USDA on 2009 Payment Limits Reduce, Recycle Holiday Waste Lower Cattle Numbers are Not Producing Higher Prices ACRE Program Details Finally Announced Signups Begin for Farm Programs Korea Buying U.S. Corn U.S. Pork Exports Defy Expectations Strong Cheese Exports, Slow Domestic Sales Dairy Cattle: November Milk Production Up 1.4 % Plant Sales Could Allow JBS Transaction Another WTO complaint Over COOL Gets Filed Another WTO complaint Over COOL Gets Filed Another WTO complaint Over COOL Gets Filed USMEF Says October Numbers Continue to Show Progress Milk Income Loss Contract Program Signup Announced U.S. Oil Consumption to Flatten Mexico Files WTO Complaint Over COOL Court Proceedings on Hold USDA Announces New Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets Minnesota Soybean Growers Support Checkoff Program Pork Infuses International Flavor into Holiday Celebrations Senator Calls for Next Step in Vietnamese Importation of U.S. Beef Know Your Dairy Farm Feed Costs Obama Officially Names Vilsack as Nominee for Ag Secretary Wheat Crop Estimate Cut in Argentina Baucus Presses Vietnam on U.S. Beef Imports Food for Progress Assistance Announced New NCBA Leader Announcement Soon Vilsack to Be Named Ag Secretary Missouri Lawmaker to Propose Decriminalizing Margarine USMEF Says October Numbers Continue to Show Progress USMEF Says October Numbers Continue to Show Progress Early Registration Ends Friday for Minnesota Organic Conference Revised Net Cash Income Numbers Still Record Meat Export Numbers Very Positive for Pork and Beef Producers Climate Change Could Cripple Agriculture New IRON Search Equipment Section Now in the Hands of Over 54,000 Wallaces Farmer Subscribers Ag Initiatives Fit Obama's Stimulus Plans New PCVAD Article Focuses on Disease Surveillance Dairy Group, Ex-Execs to Pay Commodity Loan Disbursement Changes Dorr Sees Challenges and Opportunities Ahead for Rural America Smooth Transition Occurring from Old Administration to New President-elect Makes Key Energy Nominations Uncertainty Remains on Possible Audit of Soybean Checkoff Groups Propose Farm-Based Energy as Key to Stimulus Package Corn Check-off Hearings Scheduled EPA Gives Livestock Producers Exemption No WTO Meetings This Year Increased December Chinese Imports Argentine Wheat Yields Down Buhler Resurrects Versatile Name and Logo National FFA Announces Plans for Future Conventions Inspector General Completes Slaughter Investigation Douglas County Farmer Named State's Conservationist of the Year Education Efforts Create Export Opportunities in Middle East Obama's Energy Team Being Readied Major Increase in Farm Product Sales to Iraq National Change in Weather Pattern DuPont Unveils New Strategy to Expand Its Seed Business Farmers Will Cut Corn Plantings in Favor of Soybeans in 2009 It's Official: Liberty Link Beans Coming in 2009 Know Your Dairy Cattle Farm Feed Costs TB Confirmed in North Dakota Cow USB Responds to Allegations IOG Says Hallmark/Westland Was Isolated Incident Fewer Committees for State House Peril Continues For VeraSun Corn Suppliers New House Agriculture Ranking Member Opposes CFTC Merger Overall Winter Wheat Condition is Good Auction of Surplus Dry Milk Delayed Beef Checkoff Could Increase Beef Checkoff Could Increase Spring Crop Insurance Deadline Nears Soybean Association Calls for Checkoff Investigation Beef Checkoff Could Increase Markets Waiting for USDA Crop Reports TB Confirmed in North Dakota Cow TB Confirmed in North Dakota Cow Hallmark Westland Investigation Completed November Corn, Soybean Prices Drop The Toxic Four Holiday Plants GAO Issues Report on Agency Coordination Committee Working on Food Program Reauthorization New Papers on WTO Doha Talks Issued China and U.S. Agree on Need to Curb Trade Protectionism European Union Approves Import of Roundup Ready 2 Soybeans Monsanto Launches Initiative to Improve Water Quality in Mississippi River Basin Knight Visiting Argentina Farmers Can Get Credit, But Other Challenges Remain Promoting Increased Biofuel Production Globally Seed Pricing Stories Run Rampant Conserve Energy in Hog Barns This Winter Farm Managers Should Know About Deferred Payment Contracts Porkcast Webinar to Address 2009 Feed Buying and Pricing Biomass Feedstock Report Released VeraSun Receives Final Bankruptcy Court Approval Argentina Won't End Farm Export Limits Ethanol Co-Product Granted Entrance to Australia Report Outlines Agriculture Challenges for the Next 30 Years Homeland Security Selects Kansas for National Bio and Agro Defense Lab Kohl's '09 Outlook: Both Boom and Bust Are Possible USDA Slashes Export Forecast Several Factions Oppose December WTO Meeting Citizen Lake Monitoring Program Reaches 35th Year Anniversary ECO-heater Warms Room for Less Senate Agriculture Ranking Member Wins Runoff Manhattan Wins Bid for Bio-Agro Defense Facility Former House Ag Committee Member Says USDA Restructuring Inevitable USDA Seeks Public Comments on Deregulation of GMO Corn U.S. and China Meeting to Discuss Economy Minnesota Cattle Feeder Days Set for Dec. 9-11 VeraSun Cancels U.S. BioEnergy Corn Contracts USDA Declares Five Minnesota Counties as Disaster Areas Lamy Stresses Need for Aid and Trade FDA Reports Progress in Protecting Food Supply Agriculture at the Forefront of 2009 Commodity Rebound Canada Moving Towards WTO Challenge Over COOL Pilgrim's Pride Files for Chapter 11 Protection