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>This Week's Headlines:
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>Acreage mystery continues
>Zeneca, Monsanto make major moves
>Pay for no-till to stop global warming?
>USDA to improve agriculture's 'safety net'
>Europe's farmers ready to play rough
>Combine dynamics affects grain flow
>Classifieds are free again!
>How early will you plant corn?
>What's cooking at SF Online?
>Cowboy wisdom
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>Markets
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>Acreage mystery continues
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>Confusion about acreage numbers has put fear in the futures markets.
>"Many acreage numbers released on Tuesday morning were less than
>analysts expected, except perhaps for cotton and durum wheat," says Ron
>Mortensen, @g Online markets contributor. Fear and confusion still
>exist, he says. The upshot is that demand surprises are becoming less
>likely. Weather surprises are about the only thing that will move the
>market sharply higher now.
>
>http://www.agriculture.com/markets/morchive/04mort02.html
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>Agribusiness
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>Zeneca, Monsanto make major moves
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>Zeneca is going ahead with an $85 million investment in a herbicide
>plant in China. The plant will make paraquat, the active ingredient in
>Gramoxone.... Monsanto is investing $17.2 million in a genetics research
>firm, GeneTrace. Technology from the venture will be used in improving
>crops, including corn and soybeans.... Pioneer says seed orders in the
>current half of their fiscal year are up 12% from the same period a year
>ago.
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>Cover Story
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>Pay for no-till to stop global warming?
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>Long-time no-till farmer Jim Kinsella of Illinois has proposed a new
>farm policy based on practices that capture greenhouse gases. Under the
>plan, farmers would be paid for building up soil humus and maintaining
>it at high levels, thus helping to prevent global warming from buildup
>of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The concept may need to be
>broadened and refined--no-till farmers aren’t alone in working to
>restore native soil fertility says Dan Looker, Business Editor for
>Successful Farming. But Looker says Kinsella's basic idea of making
>agriculture an asset against global warming is sound. That general
>concept has support from Senate Ag Committee chair Dick Lugar and Deputy
>Ag Secretary Richard Rominger.
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>http://www.agriculture.com/sfonline/sf/1998/april/index.html
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>Should farmers be paid/receive tax credits for building up soil humus
>and maintaining it at high levels? Tell us your thoughts in this week's
>@g Poll.
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>http://www.agriculture.com/agpoll/
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>News
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>USDA to improve agriculture's 'safety net'
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>Ag Secretary Dan Glickman Thursday announced a series of steps USDA
>plans to take to improve the so-called safety net for the ag industry.
>He said the initiatives are aimed at making it easier to expand
>insurance to new crops and new areas, moderating insurance rate
>adjustments, developing a pilot program to give farmers increased
>protection and a re-examination of USDA's prevented planting coverage.
>The initiatives should be effective for the 1999 crop, according to a
>USDA press release.
>
>http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/1998/04/014
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>@g Worldwide
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>Europe's farmers ready to play rough
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>Police held angry farmers at bay outside the European Union's Brussels
>headquarters this week, where policymakers were framing plans for launch
>of the euro dollar and big cuts in farm subsidies to help fund expansion
>of the EU. While these grand plans were being considered, ag ministers
>meeting in the same building delivered a near-unanimous rejection of
>farm reform proposals. "Perhaps more than any other group, European
>Union farmers have proved they are prepared to play rough if they
>disagree with the world as created by Brussels," according to a Reuters
>report this week.
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>http://www.agriculture.com/worldwide/index.html
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>Technology
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>Combine grain flow dynamics confound yield maps
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>The dynamics of grain flowing through a combine at harvest may make it
>difficult to identify just where the grain was harvested, a problem in
>trying to map yields. In an ARDC study, a cup of soybeans was spray
>painted, placed in a small bag, and stapled to plants so they would be
>taken into the combine at one time. Some of the soybeans entered the
>grain tank directly in 8 seconds, some traveled to the separation area
>with the pods, then to the clean grain auger, and then to the grain tank
>taking 15 to 20 seconds, others passed through re-threshing and hit the
>grain tank in about 30 seconds. The findings demonstrate that a point of
>harvest in the field may be recorded by the yield monitor over a period
>of 25 seconds over 100 feet of travel. The study showed similar findings
>for corn harvesting. However, yield maps still give an important
>indication of yield variability in areas of fields, say the researchers.
>
>http://www.agriculture.com/technology/thisweek.html
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>Top Talk
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>How early will you plant corn?
>
>A South Dakota farmer gets the ball rolling, pointing out: "In my short
>seven-year career I can honestly say I've never seen early corn beat by
>later corn, no matter what conditions the early corn was planted into.
>I've even had corn frozen off that was my top yielder (growing point was
>below the surface) for the year. Among the replies: "I think every year
>is different and each has it's own 'right' planting window." And this
>posting from central Illinois to make you antsy: "I have heard corn is
>already in the ground thirty miles west in the Mississippi bottoms."
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>http://www.agworldwide.com/scgi/agtalk/discuss_user.cgi?FNC=Message__Alist_
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>Successful Farming Online
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>What's cooking at SF Online
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>Check out our new recipe section. We've archived a few favorite recipe
>spreads from issues dating back to 1995. You'll find timely strawberry
>recipes, quick and easy meals from working women, and an often
>requested article with three delicious bread machine recipes. Each
>recipe has been tested by the same food authorities who approve recipes
>for our sister publication Better Homes and Gardens® magazine--so you
>know they are practical and reliable. Our 1998 favorites are coming
>soon.
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>http://www.agriculture.com/sfonline/archive/recipes.html
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>Humor
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>Cowboy wisdom
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>Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad
>judgment.
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>If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then
>to make sure it's still there.
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>When you’re throwin' your weight around, be ready for someone else to
>throw it around.
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