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. LaFoe and Mulhern said wheat and soybeans also generally have lower input costs that other crops, such as corn and cotton. Next year's soybeans could perform like this year's corn, which was planted in record acreage because of the demand for ethanol. Overall, most northeastern...

Some of those, especially corn, are enjoying record prices, yet the five crops alone account for nearly 94 percent of all subsidies under the House bill. Also known as the Lugar-Lautenberg bill, it would phase out the nation's $16 billion a year in traditional subsidies for commodity crops such as corn, cotton, soybeans, wheat and rice. Monday, November 05, 2007 D epression-era farm subsidy programs make no sense in 21st-century America, yet committees in both the House and Senate have...

Producers of corn, soybeans, wheat, rice and cotton get fixed payments based on their land's past production. The group estimates that unless Congress changes the system as lawmakers rewrite farm policy for the next five years, taxpayers will send $26 billion in automatic payments to farmers when they're enjoying high crop prices and incomes. The 19 states represented by senators on the agriculture committee would get 61 percent of direct payments under a bill the full Senate could vote on...

Cottonseed contains about 22% protein, and the cotton already produced worldwide has enough protein to meet the requirements of 500 million people. Attempts to eliminate gossypol from cotton plants in the 1960s and 1970s failed: insects that had previously been kept at bay by the toxin happily ate the modified plant. They constructed a genetic sequence that would only be active in cotton seeds and which contained a portion of the enzymes gene, followed by the same sequence in reverse....

While this being the official stand of the ministry of civil aviation ministry, it s learnt that it was disagreement among the members on the most controversial issue of relaxing the existing norm for domestic airlines to fly overseas which led to calling off the scheduled program. While this being the official stand of the ministry of civil aviation ministry, it s learnt that it was disagreement among the members on the most controversial issue of relaxing the existing norm for domestic...

You are in: Home>News>Arable Increased wheat plantings prompt Atlantis shortage concerns 31/10/2007 13:57:00 FWi Will there be enough Atlantis available for growers to use this autumn? According to some agronomists supplies already are or look likely to be tight, following increased wheat plantings. You are in: Home>News>Arable Increased wheat plantings prompt Atlantis shortage concerns 31/10/2007 13:57:00 FWi Will there be enough Atlantis available for growers to use this autumn?...