While some growers will weigh corn-on-corn options, the yield potential in some areas doesn't make it reasonable to plant the crop on the same acres every year. Although beans planted before May 1 have higher yield potential, growers need to be aware that crop insurance doesn't cover some early-planted soybeans. While no-till crops can provide convenience to soybean producers, many of them are also finding convenience in weed control by using glyphosate (Roundup) For many of the fields...

Despite large supplies, the market has to bid up soybeans to make sure enough acres are planted to the oilseed. Soybeans remain the miracle crop - both in terms of variety of uses and in the commodity's ability to maintain good prices. Soybean export sales for the 2007 marketing year have reached 62 percent of USDA's forecast, as compared with 68 percent on average for the last five years. Soybean meal has been under pressure as South America continues with soybean harvest and begins to...

Commodities markets responded to the larger-than-anticipated corn plantings, with corn prices quickly dropping 20 cents a bushel, hitting the limit and stopping trading for the day, said Mike Woolverton, grain marketing economist at Kansas State University. Commodities markets responded to the larger-than-anticipated corn plantings, with corn prices quickly dropping 20 cents a bushel, hitting the limit and stopping trading for the day, said Mike Woolverton, grain marketing economist at...

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Beans planted before May 1 have higher yield potential, but growers should be aware that crop insurance doesn't cover very early plantings, said Shawn conley, Purdue University soybean specialist. Last year, 53 percent of Indiana's acreage was planted to soybeans and with most farmers in a corn/soybean rotation, more acres were naturally going to shift to corn in 2007, Conley said. Indiana farmers will plant more acres to corn than soybeans this year, but the push for more corn for ethanol...

If realized, this would be our smallest soybean acreage since 1994 and our largest year to year drop in soybean acres ever in the state of Iowa. The price of soybeans has moved up too, but not as much as the price of corn, as the two crops are competing for acres. Iowa farmers have traditionally led the nation in producing corn, accounting for more than 2 billion bushels of production, in each of the last three years. Won't beans have to move higher in price to attract more acres? "I'm...