VIDALIA As the weather begins to cool and the summer crop harvest ends, local agriculturalists have little time to rest before it is time to plant their winter crops. With cotton and soybeans harvested and the plants out of the ground, many farmers choose to plant winter crops to keep a livelihood year round, as well as to keep their fields active and prevent unnecessary erosion. Winter crops for the smaller garden include onions, leeks, turnips, carrots and radishes, while field winter...

Over the past month OMAFRA and AAFC conducted tests on sample soybean leaves that confirmed the disease has spread through wind-borne spores into Ontario from the U. Fortunately, soybean plants in Ontario have either been harvested or are too mature for the disease to have an effect on the 2007 crop. The Ontario Soybean Rust Coalition is a group of key industry players - including government, growers, researchers, and chemical companies - committed to monitoring and minimizing the effects...

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...

Producers can commonly double-crop wheat with soybeans, which means they can plant soybeans right behind the wheat harvest in the same field, and the price of soybeans has soared to as high as $10 per bushel. Next year's soybeans could perform like this year's corn, which was planted in record acreage because of the demand for ethanol. LaFoe and Mulhern said wheat and soybeans also generally have lower input costs that other crops, such as corn and cotton. But that's not the only reason...

In Mississippi, those crops represent four of the state's five top agriculture exports and in cotton and soybeans, two of the state's top five commodities produced. Opposition to the subsidies is based on two factors - first, farmers of late are enjoying record crop prices and record farm incomes; and second, a broad coalition of taxpayer advocates, medical organizations, environmentalists and religious groups have joined forces to argue against crop subsidies for a variety of reasons....

China has been on a soybean shopping spree, and that's helped push soybean prices to peak levels. With Chinese production of soybeans down this year due to poor weather, and consumption of beans and bean oil growing fast in that country, demand for U. November 16, 2007 NEW YORK Soybean prices climbed on Friday, capping a week of strong gains amid expectations that growing Chinese demand for beans could rapidly deplete global stockpiles. This week, the USDA released three separate reports...