His family farms several thousand acres, including 600 acres of vegetables that are sold to major chain stores and to food-service companies. That's because farmers expect to harvest 3.78 million acres of corn for grain, up 28 percent from the 2.96 million acres harvested last year. Ohio farmers are expected to produce more corn than ever this year, despite lower yields per acre due to spotty drought conditions, according to forecasts from the U. Yet he anticipates a decent crop of corn...

Catahoula Parish had the most acres of grain sorghum with 46,641 acres, while Morehouse Parish led the northeastern part of the state in rice acres at 21,233. He estimated the soybean harvest is 60 percent to 65 percent complete, with almost all of the northeastern Louisiana soybean fields harvested. But Morehouse Parish producer Chris Carter said his family, who planted 2,800 acres of corn this year, will continue harvesting its crop through this week. Though Louisiana farmers planted...

Experts say the recent confirmation of soybean rust in Iowa in 2006 should serve as a reminder that the fungus can happen in Iowa. On March 8, he says an independent crop consultant brought in two baggies, one containing seeds and pods and one with parts of a dead soybean leaf. While experts were able to confirm rust on the soybean leaves when they were dead, Tylka says it is more important to look for signs of the disease earlier. Soybean leaves show various amounts of soybean rust. After...

The soybean oil is separated from the soybean by mechanical pressing or extraction with a solvent. It takes approximately 60 kg of soybeans to make 10 kg of soybean oil. I bye no means endorse one over the other simply because as a candle maker I think it is beneficial to work with each type of wax that is at our disposal. This series of articles on wax will continue to explain the various waxes used in candle making without preference for one over another. In order to make the soybean oil...

Generally, the market expects the crops to see at least average, and likely above average yields for corn, with soybeans still far from known because of the erratic weather and sudden outbreaks of disease. Demand for Chicago's soft red winter wheat, grown in the Midwest, has been far greater than expected as world buyers aggressively come to the United States for rapidly declining supplies. Strong beef demand is expected for the Labor Day holiday and declining supplies of fed cattle are...

That is how the modern farmer gains access to a patchwork of different properties on which he plants his crops, county agriculture extension agents say. Yet the agriculture industry is being tantalized by new crops that could prevent some farmers from being uprooted from their land. So farmers lease acreage from big landowners, who have other jobs and are holding the land as an investment and need an agriculture exemption for a tax break. Farmers say that what they can earn selling crops...