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.

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.

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.

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

The North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program offers several grants.

Farm gross cash revenue has more than doubled during the past 10 years.

Dave Franzen and Ken Hellevang are named Fellows for 2013.

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.

Mike Beltz of Hillsboro has been elected the chair of the board.

It attacks fruit crops, including cherries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and grapes.

Simsek has published 47 peer-reviewed journal articles since coming to NDSU and has published more than 60 abstracts.

A small amount of glyphosate drifting into a seed potato field can cause thousands of dollars of damage.

The administration’s plans are important to North Dakota, its businesses and residents because of the size of our energy and agricultural sectors and the energy budgets in many businesses and households.