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Corn growers will have more to choose from next year because of Mycogen Seeds, which is adding several new BMR and TMF corn silage hybrids for the 2014 growing season, including five with SmartStax (SS) trait technology.
Silage and hay inventories continue to be a challenge on many dairy operations due to unfavorable weather and available land.
To stretch supplies of quality silage, proactive measures are necessary to ensure that forages are harvested at the peak time, inoculated at the chopper and packed to the ideal density.
But all of this work can go unnoticed if the ensiled forage isn’t covered and fed properly. A misstep in covering or feeding can lead to wasted silage and money down the drain.
Broadcast planting small forage seeds into heavy pasture sod often leads to poor seedling establishment because the tiny seeds do not reach the soil surface.
For the third time in less than 24 months, the board of directors of the National Dairy Producers Organization, Inc. (NDPO) is calling on every producer in the country who is producing milk that is being shipped to a class 3 or class 4 processor to reduce overall production by 5 percent (1 percent per month) as soon as possible.
Officials at Soybean & Corn Advisor Inc. have expressed concern that an early frost will harm late-planted corn in the nation’s corn belt. Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota may all be at risk as corn develops at a slower-than-normal rate, leaving the immature crop vulnerable to a September frost.
Potash-mining stocks spiraled downward after Russian producer Uralkali said it would pull out of its sales partnership with Belarus, one of two groups in a global cartel commanding two-thirds of a nearly $22 billion market for the fertilizer ingredient, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report by Alistair MacDonald and Lukas I. Alpert.
