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Residual value — How much is field trash worth?
Maybe we need to think more positively about trash. We’re talking trash as residue left on fields after harvest, or any time as a matter of fact. Does it have value?
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Grain Outlook: Conference news unmoving
We will have plenty of corn this year, it’s just a question of the quality and when growers will part with it. Our estimates are that the grower has around 40 percent of old crop corn left to sell and has sold less than 20 percent of new crop.
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Grain Outlook: Keep your eyes on grain quality
Resistance stands at $3.68 1/4 and $3.94. Fundamentals are bearish, but even a bear market will get a bounce now and then.
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Grain Angles: Don’t fall into ‘woulda, coulda, shoulda’
With the last vestiges of winter challenging our resolve to embrace the cold, we know that a warm sunny beach sounds pretty nice. Wishful thinking can haunt us in the grain markets as well. With the steady decline that we have seen in the price of grain, we are tempted to fall in the trap of thinking, “woulda, coulda, shoulda.”
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Grain Outlook: South America on traders’ minds
Growers still hold significant supplies, demand is suspect, outside markets are not supportive, and funds are net long — a recipe to limit rallies, which would probably have to be technically led.
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Grain Outlook: Post-report decline continues
The post-U.S. Department of Agriculture report decline continued last week, with corn futures shedding another 8.25 cents in subdued, winter-doldrums-like trading.
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Grain Angles: Consider true cost of storage
Now that we have the grain in the bin and we still feel tired and weary from the long harvest it is tempting to think our risks are well managed. Now we must remain vigilant on monitoring the grain quality in the bin.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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