The new shallow-loss crop insurance is not available this year.
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Make the reallocation decision on a farm-by-farm basis.
["The FSA will provide notification to landowners that will include the base and yield information of record as of Oct. 1, 2013. It will be up to landowners to decide whether any reallocating or updating is to their advantage.", ""]
Never enter a bin when unloading grain or breaking up a mass of grain.
For crop producers, the primary decision will be to choose the Agricultural Risk Coverage option or the Price Loss Coverage option.
If a consumer does not care for a particular food, there are almost always plenty of alternatives, and many consumers have the income to pursue those alternatives.
Ron Haugen, NDSU Extension Service farm economist, has some items to note for your 2013 income tax preparation.
National Hard Spring Wheat Show has taken on a different look this year with the incorporation of the Best of the Best program.
The 2013 survey summarizes more than 4,800 reports from farmers and ranchers, aerial sprayers, elevators, custom harvesters and other custom operators.
Some grain may have gone into storage last fall at higher than recommended moisture contents.
These planning prices can be used for preparing annual enterprise budgets and annual whole-farm cash flow projections.
There are a multitude of factors impacting the shipping market. Major factors include strong growth for several of the major commodity segments, with the growth in Bakken oil and crop shipments being the most notable.
The program uses the direct costs and yields from the 2014 projected crop budgets for nine regions of North Dakota.
However, producers may want to be more aggressive than normal in forward-pricing crops that provide acceptable profit.
These are soybean educational meetings with current research-based information that can help producers with soybean production decisions for the 2014 growing season.
The EPA’s plan essentially reduces the floor for domestic corn-ethanol use from 14.4 billion gallons to 13 billion gallons.
The USDA market information and outlook forecasts make an easy target for marketing analysts and farmers because they often question and sometimes criticize the information contained in key reports. However, we often do not think about what might happen if this information was not available “free of charge” to the general public.
Farm gross cash revenue has more than doubled during the past 10 years.
The podcasts feature agricultural topics ranging from rangeland management to crop prices.
Weigh the risk of winter injury against the need for forage when deciding whether to harvest alfalfa in the fall.
Try to harvest as much of the crop as possible before its moisture level drops below 11 percent.
Moisture content and maturity can vary greatly across fields.
The direct financial impact to North Dakota’s farmers of prevented-planted acres in 2013 is estimated at $626.9 million.
Consider the combination of circumstances that have fueled the strong land market and whether increases will continue.
Salinity is a problem for North Dakota producers.
In her short time at NDSU, Simsek has built a strong research program that is recognized internationally.
Natural gas is among the biggest issues in renewables because its low cost has disrupted global energy and manufacturing, including biofuels and bioproducts.
It attacks fruit crops, including cherries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and grapes.
A small amount of glyphosate drifting into a seed potato field can cause thousands of dollars of damage.