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World Ag Expo draws special guest on opening day Schwarzenegger tours the grounds in Tulare; thousands come from across the globe

The director was between thousands of people present for the start of the three-day event, which is billed as the world’s top farming traffic show. Schwarzenegger praised local farmers and matched to give one after another pleasantness to local water issues.

Governor’s tour

After pause at the Eco1st [...]

The Solution For Salty Irrigation Water

One new potato farmer from Florida that has been controlling the Inline Processor staid that “It was like the salt wasn’t even in my wells” and as a result “the first year the Eco1st Inline Processors were in line I could see a big difference in the growth process of the crop. I had an [...]

Monitor your yield monitor

Calibration of the apex stress in stealing repremand yield counts

Jeff Caldwell Agriculture.com  10/07/2009

Speed & moisture

Nobody’s perfect. When it comes to crop conformity and uniformity, that includes Mother Nature.

No field is 100% uniform — moisture, examination weight and particle volume are just a few [...]

Salinity in Agriculture by the USDA

Why do we irrigate?

Irrigation is an very old and important farming practice. Crop yields are higher under irrigation and less dependent on the effects of weather. While only 15% of the world’s inventive land is irrigated, it accounts for 35-40% of the person from earth food harvest. Projected race growth rates for the next thirty years [...]

As farm incomes drop, grocery deals rise

By Marisol Bello, USA TODAY
Consumers are reaping some benefits as farmers take their biggest hit in 35 years: lower food prices at the supermarket.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts farm income of $49.1 billion in 2009 when used for inflation. That would be a 39% bail out from 2008, a record year when U.S. farmers fitting [...]

US potato market update

Fresh shipments of potatoes are on similar to last year at this time from many of the potato-producing regions, but Idaho is well forward of last year at this time. The achievement of fresh product on the marketplace while last season’s potatoes are still opening out of storage has driven prices down to less than [...]

Desalinisation

By Tilwin Westrup, Development Officer, Narrogin

There are a range of processes used for desalination world wide, and the most common are shaped on shelter transformation (using membranes and pumps) or evaporation. The material costs of desalination plants are historically high, and this has resulted in unaccompanied use in Western Australia. There are areas in the [...]

Storing corn will pay off, economist says

Market surmise will approaching privilege stored corn over soybeans

As the 2009 pick up draws near, producers will finalize their decisions about whether or not to store their crops and for how long. And according to University of Illinois economist Darrel Good, the tide price make up obviously favors corn storage over soybean storage.

Storing crops in expectancy [...]

Idaho Grower Shippers Association Sun Valley Convention

Grain profits seen eroding

Grain increase seen eroding

Watch land rents to homogeneous inupts, specialists say Jeff Caldwell Agriculture.com

The economy’s downturn is digging in its heels into the farm sector. So, what’s it mean to your bottom line starting into fall harvest? The short answer is particle profitability will go down and it will make it tougher [...]