Current Edition

Current Edition

• Making corn work in ’10 and beyond starts with hybrid

  Despite harvesting challenges of record proportion, the 2009 corn crop produced some amazing yields, even in Minnesota. But with record high drying and storage costs, coupled with record low test weights for some producers, some fields also rapidly shrunk anticipated profits. So what to do to make corn profitable in 2010?

  January 29, 2010 3 Photos

• Back Roads: Pictures from the past

  You wouldn’t notice much if you were driving by. From a distance it looks like another rocky outcropping on the prairie. But this Sioux quartzite in Cottonwood County holds spiritual significance for American Indians and historical interest for anyone who stops to view.

  January 29, 2010 3 Photos

• Submit a recipe for The Land's new cookbook!

  The Land is preparing Volume III of its popular cookbook, and we're inviting you to submit YOUR favorites

  February 5, 2010 1 Photo

• Don’t forget to give your corn a little zinc and sulfur

  How much fertility can you afford for your 2010 corn crop? You still start with the basics and that means soil tests to give you a baseline on nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. But agronomists also suggest getting a zinc reading, maybe even sulfur even though soil tests are not as reliable for this nutrient.

  January 29, 2010 2 Photos

• U of M experts say new corn diseases on the horizon

  At the Jan. 8 Ag Research Update session at the Southwest Research and Outreach Center at Lamberton, Dean Malvick, University of Minnesota Extension plant pathologist, told Minnesota crop consultants there’s a new disease needing attention.

  January 29, 2010 3 Photos

• Education ‘priority mission’ for corn checkoff

  “Looking at my home county, we did about 170 bushel average this past year. And that means lots of farmers on lots of fields went considerably over 200 bushels. Check the genetics coming down the line and (300-bushel corn) seems like an achievable goal.”

  January 29, 2010 1 Photo

• Not all aboard ‘300 by 30’ corn yield bandwagon

  The American seed industry isn’t bashful about talking up a future of 300-bushel corn yields. But not everyone is on that “300 by 30” bandwagon even though acknowledging the tremendous gains that biotechnology is exerting on U.S. corn yields.

  January 29, 2010

• Used wallboard dries dairy cow bedding

  Dairy barns and cornfields can benefit from tons and tons of scrap drywall that ultimately ends up in landfills. When processed into recycled gypsum, the list of potential uses of the product is rather amazing. Travis and Ally Leonard, young entrepreneurs at Princeton, have launched Innovative Gypsum Products to take advantage of those uses.

  January 29, 2010 1 Photo

• Dairy culls can produce high-quality, tasty steaks

  When culling some of your dairy cows, just a couple months on a high-energy corn ration could elevate some of them into the “dairy beef” category, according to Conrad Kvamme, consultant/coordinator of the Midwest Dairy Beef Quality Assurance Center.

  January 29, 2010 1 Photo

• FSA program specialist: CRP doing what was intended

  With 3.4 million acres of Conservation Reserve Program contracts nationwide expiring in 2009, one logically wants to know: How much of this will be put back into crop production?

  January 29, 2010 1 Photo

• More Current Edition Headlines

Back to top