A positive is that projected yields for most crops have increased.

Botrytis can spread in infected fields easily and cause large areas of crop loss under the correct conditions.

He helps develop crop varieties that will grow well in North Dakota.

However, producers may want to be more aggressive than normal in forward-pricing crops that provide acceptable profit.

However, producers are worried about whether average yields in 2013 will materialize. Unlike last spring, soil moisture is depleted.

Common beans feed about 375 million people in Latin America and 200 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.

With few exceptions, all crops show positive returns to labor and management in all regions of North Dakota where the projections were made.

There was a large difference in profit by farm type.

It will be the first pulse quality and nutrition lab in the country.

The 2009 crop profit projections are better than expected and are favorable when viewed in a longer historical context.