As a new industrial crop, energy beets are expected to help meet the need for renewable feedstocks to replace high-cost fossil fuels.

My job at NDSU is to develop (research) and provide science-based knowledge on the economics of producing, transporting, converting and marketing biomass into bioproducts.

The program compares prevented-planting with growing either the same crop for which a prevented-planting payment could be received or some other crop.

Near real-time weather data can be accessed through computers and smartphones.

Even if producers don’t plant energy beets for a few years, they should be mindful of what herbicides they use on their crops this year.

Nearly 161,000 acres of cropland will be lost to the lake in 2013.

Expect a yield loss of 1.5 percent per day beyond the optimum for wheat and 1.7 percent per day for barley.

The most important questions about ACRE enrollment are whether the state will be eligible for an ACRE payment and for how much.

The sale violated several North Dakota seed laws, including labeling and seed testing requirements.

Demonstration and yield trial plots are showing how energy beets can produce high yields in many different soil types and conditions.

The question is whether this huge increase has capped a 10-year rise in land values, which has been the largest in the past 100 years.

Can we produce enough food to feed the world population in 2050?

At NDSU, the feasibility of using new sugar beet varieties, known as energy beets, for ethanol production is under study.

The webinar will help growers and agronomists analyze a crop’s winter health and offer tips for spring management.

Some U.S. seedsmen and others have been approached by farmers or entities in Canada in an effort to buy Faller hard red spring wheat seed to plant in Canada.

High hay prices mean producers need to improve yields and reduce waste.

At first glance, the projected prices per bushel look good at $5.65 for corn, $12.87 for soybeans and $8.44 for spring wheat.

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

Venkataramana Chapara joins the North Central Research Extension Center near Minot.

Mueller has more than six years of experience at the State Seed Department as a seed analyst.

The decrease in wheat midge can be attributed to the drought, which may have prevented wheat midge larvae from dropping out of the wheat heads in late summer.

Producers can compare projected fuel costs and use based on alternate crop acreages, tillage systems and crop rotations.

His research will focus on agronomic issues facing producers in southwestern North Dakota.

Price projections are given for the major crop commodities and livestock and livestock products.

Grain stores best when it is cool and dry.

The program provides a tool for producers to check the changing scenarios until final planting decisions are made this spring.

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

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The first step in assessing market conditions and assigning subjective probabilities to price movements is to become familiar with the underlying supply and demand conditions for the crop under analysis.

Specialty crops play a major role in North Dakota’s agriculture.