This workshop is designed to provide in-depth discussion on selected topics to help agricultural professionals enhance their crop production recommendations for farmers.

Land values showed about an 8 percent increase from the previous survey, compared with a 42 percent increase during 2012.

The greatest export of phosphate is due to wind erosion.

Twenty one percent of the soil samples statewide are moderate to high risk for wheat midge infestation.

Stored grain can spoil quickly at warm temperatures.

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.

The single biggest change is the elimination of direct payments to farmers

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.

The NDSU Extension Service is celebrating 100 years in 2014.

The program uses the direct costs and yields from the 2014 projected crop budgets for nine regions of North Dakota.

Because of H. Roald Lund’s outstanding leadership in agricultural research and academics at NDSU, the name of the atrium in Loftsgard Hall was changed to the H.R. Lund Atrium.

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.

Elgin-ND’s attributes are yield, quality and disease protection.

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.

The survey summarizes approximately 2,700 reports from aerial operators, farmers, ranchers and other custom operators.