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Finding Some Predictability in Diesel Prices A Miserable 24 Hours Welfare of Animals Comes First as Blizzard Rages Adversity Brings Opportunity Not Nuts about Preconceived Notions Learning the Lightbar Radio Commercial Strikes a Scary Note 4-H is an investment in the future "It's Only a Little Leak," said the Captain of the Titanic Flood Fight On the Red Sen. Voinovich talks Agriculture A Reason To Smile Nurse Practitioners: A Modern Solution to a Nagging Problem Alliances Open Doors to Interesting Ideas Food Contamination Has Simple Answer Losing Our Ever-Loving Minds in the Name of Safety Dan's Inflation Market Basket Budget Squeeze Hits State Ag Agencies The Minimum Wage Myth Farmers' Thoughts Turn Toward Spring Weather Don't Miss an Opportunity Ag Producers Speak One Language Congress' Common Sense is MIA Conservation Easements Create Jobs? Take That, Animal Rights Activists Clean Water Funding--Where Will It Go? Making a Combine Statement Are You a Rich Farmer? Planning to Stay Ahead Follow South Dakota’s Lead On Ethanol Farm Support For Coal Plants Is No Mystery How Do We Get The Bidding Started? The Rush of Spring...is Coming Abandoned Horse Web Site Draws Attention to Lack of Slaughter Where's the phone? Focus, Mr. President, Focus on Goal #1 Don't Worry Be Happy Two Sides of the Animal 'Coin' in Indiana Some Good News to Season the Bad Not Better Than Tractors Record Deer Season Not Enough Farmer Panel Offers Insight Buy Cotton Options Now Food Safety Can Be Simple Fertilizer Report #1 Jet BioFuel About to Take Off Ready to Introduce New Master Farmers We need unbiased third-party research Sometimes the World is Still Smaller than You Think Do Fungicides Cause Physiological Responses? You CAN use less energy ND Again Eyes Cuban Market Shrinking Our Excesses Would Be Good Is Ohio the Next Target for Animal Rights Extremists? Midwest Power Shift Pioneer Seeks a Mighty Wind Utility Vehicle Makes a Stretch Stretching Out to Cover More Acres Horses: The last untapped source of protein on the North American continent Big Planter Captures Imagination Flexible, Maneuverable and BIG! Rural Residents Worthy of Broadband Return of an Icon? Is It Spring Yet? Peanut Recall Gets More Confusing Farm Economy Worries Rise Agriculture: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon Thank You Mr. Lincoln Speak up for Peanut Producers The changing of the seasons can be violent Some disturbing news Farm Bureau Talks Budget Where did the money go? Where is the National Peanut Board? Farm Show Ahead...Excitement to Follow Poor Peanuts Where Meat Comes From, It's Not Science Fiction Peanut Math Doesn't Add Up The Law of Gravity Has NOT Been Repealed More Funds and More Time to Apply for EQIP Is Welcome News AGCO launches new tractor lines Bury the axe Power Show Must Go On Passages Meeting the 2009 Masters If Snow Keeps Coming, Winter Could Get Really Ugly Why Uncle Sam's Getting Involved THIS is America! Line Between Life and Death Is Mighty Fine Telling Agriculture's Story Is An Important Job A Truly Inconvenient Truth No-Till on the Plains Draws Large Turnout Out of the Mouths of Babes Different Subject/Same Argument What a Difference Six Months Makes We Will Survive Keeping in Touch - Getting Easier Grandma’s Sugar Crème Pie After the Flood An RX for Tough Times Maybe Legislators Eat Too Much Pie Shivering through the inauguration Land Prices Are Softening? How Quickly Fortunes Change Get an Obama Invite? Compliance, Enforcement of New EPA Rules Problematic Finally, A Smart President Cold Is Relative After All Caring for a Key Asset More Than Just Another Award Tomorrow's Leaders Wake Up NCBA, It Wasn't Ethanol Population Rates: the Devil's in the Details It's Official: A Lot of People Did Not Plant Wheat Bumpy Ride Ahead? Never Out Grow Your Need to Learn Good News and Bad News A Dose of Reality Needs to Set In Checkoff Blues Buy Ahead! Now's the Time! You Can’t Take Indiana Out of a Hoosier Lists, Lists and More Lists USDA to Investigate Soybean Checkoff Allegations Welcome A New Forum for Your Thoughts Welcome The Birds Know Starting Out Fresh? Where Will The Market Go? Picking High Yields in San Antonio After Dinner Discussions The Last Time We Touched . . . Time to Take a Deep Breath What I Learned This Christmas Not Ready for their Close-up My New Year's Resolution Last Chance for Tax Savings Why do we need foreign workers? Find Used Equipment Fast Finding Inspiration During the Winter Months Kick-start the Economy -- Now Don't POP cotton We could use a Southerner at USDA Company Move Aimed at Matching Machines to Markets Farming and Inventing Go Hand in Hand Exercise Your Financial Health Christmas Tunes Future Electronics Get Push Our Economic Health Must Come First Bobbing for Nickels Stop Feeding the 'Monster' Is an FFV Mandate the Answer to Foreign Oil Dependence? APH or CRC? From Dust to Dust Maximizing that Capacity Fresh From Florida Heading into 'Crazy Season' All About Corn (Well, Almost) Machinery Sales Demand to Continue? Finding the Next Best Thing Reader Calls to Discuss Premise Registration The Scariest Part of November 4 Was . . . Emerson Nafziger Attempts to Replicate Kip Cullers' Soybean Yield Prop 2 Swings the Door Open Big-Rig Pickup? Democracy Prevailed Ahh, It's Almost Over! Really? Only Half Done With Corn? Seed Selection Boosts Yield Share Ag's Good Financial News Getting attention in Congress Putting Things In Perspective My Mind's Made Up! How Are You Capitalizing on Cheap Diesel? Moving Ahead with Buying Plans Good News You Can Use When a Hobby Becomes an Obsession Like Deer, Questions Come in All Sizes Making the U.S. Industrial Case Sun sets on Sunbelt Happy To Be Here High Profile Pigs Year of the Utility Tractor? Campaigning to Lose Montgomery County Farmers Continue to Fight Against Longwall Miners Exploring New Cotton Technology Here's What I've Heard Regarding Fertilizer Prices No Lipstick on These Pigs Bigger, Faster, Oh My Game Over Where is the Truth? As if Politicians Weren't Already Confused Going Electric? Chrysler Makes a Statement Toyota Pushes Full-Size Truck Line into the Farming Segment St. Louis: It's No Chicago Biofuel: What's now -- and not! Equipment Availability and Brand Loyalty Collide Will $1 Buy Cotton Acres? What happened in Week 14? Losses Overwhelming Ever Since 9-11 Lucky Time at a Farm Show Is It Just Me, Or Was August Ridiculously Cool? Capital Overtakes Elephants Saying Not Goodbye, But See Ya Later Another Crop Rally Coming? Agriculture Heats Up Local Politics Loss to Profit Chasm Widens Define Trade Distorting It's an Elephant Market A Precision Change? Agronomy Day: A Great Way to Catch Up on the Latest Research Good News Keeps on Coming Put cash on the table, then we'll talk New at Boone! Holding On Pays Dividends Weed Management and Refuge Planting: One in the Same? Facts in Plain Sight Packing for the Big Show Key Reversal Takes Toll Key Reversal Takes Toll Supply, Demand and Early Frost Marketing Scam or Cause for Concern Savor the South Hat's Off to the Thinking Farmer Ramping up for 'Fieldwork' Downed Corn Along the Road Past Grain's Peak; Now What? Cheaper Food to Come CRP: Hold or Fold? Hat's Off to the Thinking Farmer Fool Me Over and Over Again Diversity Drives the Land of Lincoln Stout Hearts; Deep Pockets AIR Takes Flight Class Without Cash Judge Limits CRP Grazing Market on Slippery Slope Greed Alters Profit Opportunities Markets Shake Up Standings Ideal Weather Clouds Markets Go Southern Farmers! Worn Out on Wheat Wherewithal Limits Gains Go Long for Profit Wheat Warrior Anticipates Cotton Move Wild Ride Dips Teams in Red Farm Moves don't Match Game Play Manage Price Decisions Markets Offer Wild Ride Only Two Teams are in the Black Ford Down, But Not Out Hedge Farm Profits in the Market AIR Team Takes an Early Lead First Impressions Teams Warm up for FACTsim! Suderman Weighs in on Corn Crop Take Stock in Inputs Let the Games Begin! Farm Progress Show on Facebook building bins and conveyors Kubota M9000 air conditioning problems FEEL Clinic Offers Basics of Crop Plant Diagnostics ISU Extension Selects Regional Directors in Restructuring Plan CSP Signup Expected Soon Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards Michigan Legislators Pushing for Livestock Standards R-CALF USA Calls for National Disease Strategy, Not NAIS R-CALF USA Calls for National Disease Strategy, Not NAIS Nestlé Cookie Dough Samples Confirmed With E. Coli Senate Plans to Move on Climate Change More Than $5 Million Available for Water Quality Improvement Projects Want to Show a Steer in Governor's Charity Steer Show? EPA Further Extends Comment Period on RFS Broadband Initiative Launched Rural Tour Launched by Obama Administration Corn-Fed Beef Trade Mission Wraps Up in Korea Corn-Fed Beef Trade Mission Wraps Up in Korea More Corn Fewer Soybeans No Surprise to Lanworth Graves Proposes Bill for Accelerating Energy Projects Climate Bill's Progress Delights Obama Leopold Center and Drake University Launch Land Tenure Project Weeds Are Winning the Battle in 2009 - Plan Now for Next Year Iowa Electric Co-ops Urge Balanced Solution To Climate Change Summer Sun Is Encouraging Iowa Crop Development The Aussies Have Landed – with Tractors! Tail End Charlie: A Champion Traveler Fescue Research Progressing Fescue Research Progressing Program Brings Soybeans Closer to Consumers FAQ: How will you prove your yields for ACRE? USDA Launches New Recovery Act Web Site Group Praises Congress for Action on Indirect Land Use Agencies Investigate Salmonella Contamination Canada Ramps up DDGS Use Statewide Corn Grower Discussions to Explore Issues June 30 Is Final Date to Report 2009 Crop Acreage Aphids Already Showing Up in Young Soybeans Northey Asks Vilsack to Help Struggling Pork Producers FAQ: ACRE Calculator Workshops Are Week Of July 13 Stress Will Shows Up If It Turns Dry New Flexwing Rotary Cutter Insurance Firms Announce Alliance Will House Vote on Climate Change Friday? Several Different Positions on Climate Change Bill Companies Collaborate to Beat Soybean Nematodes Farm Progress Announces New Business Unit Upper Midwest Manure Handling Expo Set for July 22 at Boone Take Time for Sprayer Cleanup FAQ: Should I use 'plug yields' for ACRE? Rural America Solutions Group Speaks On Climate Change Legislation Farm Bureau Can't Support Climate Change Bill Hearing on Farm Bill Implementation Held by House Ag Subcommittee Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Ohio Lawmakers Back Constitutional Amendment on Animal Care Soybean Aphids Could Be Just Around the Corner Pork Information Gateway Web Site is Improved Pork Information Gateway Web Site is Improved Students Display Biorenewable Ideas at ISU Senate Releases Report on Excessive Wheat Speculation Farm Futures See Corn Acres Down 3% Peterson, Waxman Reach an Agreement on Energy Bill Growth Energy Pleased with Energy Secretary's Support of Ethanol HUD Joins USDA Effort by Launching Recovery Act Web Mapping Tool EPA Officials to Visit Iowa Appropriation Bills Show Upward Spending Trend NRCS Announces Grassland Reserve Program Sign Up for Iowa Take Advantage of Iowa Hay and Straw Directory Soybean Checkoff Seeks Review of International Marketing Efforts New Climate Change Cost Analysis Released Doha Talks to Move Forward Nestlé Recall Causes Officials to Search Possibilities Pork Producers Making Small Production Cuts Pork Producers Making Small Production Cuts Still Planting Soybeans in Southeast Iowa Study Results Released on Weed Control in Roundup Ready Systems South Korea Free Trade Deal Still Pending South Korea Free Trade Deal Still Pending Pump up Glyphosate Performance Biofuels Development Could Be Hurt By Clashing Policies NFU Calls on CFTC Chairman Gensler for Commodity Market Investigation House Ag Committee Approves FY2010 Appropriations Bill FAQ: Your ability to bear risk enters into ACRE decision Saturated Fats Are Important Part of a Healthy Diet New High Capacity Offset Mower European Corn Borer Numbers Are Up in 2009 Some Farmers Now Discovering Winter-Injured Hay Fields Rotator Replaces Impact Hail Has Pounded A Number Of Iowa Fields Don't Let Potato Leafhoppers Burn Alfalfa Hay Time To Scout Corn For Rootworm Larvae Purdue study: CAFO impacts a mixed bag in communities Purdue study: CAFO impacts a mixed bag in communities Purdue study: CAFO impacts a mixed bag in communities President Wants New Financial Regulations Ag Groups Battle Food Safety 'Overkill' Two Threats to Agriculture Moving in Congress Farmland Preservation Hit by Budget Squeeze Brazil Conducts Sting at JBS and Others Brazil Conducts Sting at JBS and Others New Members Appointed to State Soil Conservation Committee Strawberry Season Arrives in Iowa Officials Saying Hog Surveillance Could Be Difficult Officials Saying Hog Surveillance Could Be Difficult Organic Agreement Reached with Canada USDA Wants to Hear More on Animal ID Issue USDA Wants to Hear More on Animal ID Issue Groups Claim New Bill is 'Property Grab' Groups Claim New Bill is 'Property Grab' Vilsack Taps Veteran to Head Forest Service GX1117 Offers Large Capacity and Flexibility Rural Water Projects Get $123 Million from USDA Iowa FFA Chapters Claim State Championships for 2009 Three New Board Members Chosen to Advise Leopold Center Hay Acres Will Stay About the Same DuPont Files Answer to Monsanto Lawsuit Pioneer, Beck's to Team Up for XL New Player Moves into Seed Treatment Market Climate Change Study Updates Ag Info Land Values Appear to Hold Strong Where Will We Get New Scientists? Climate Change Bill Vote Expected Soon Bill to Improve Food Safety Introduced Canadian Pork Producer Culls Herd Because of H1N1 Canadian Pork Producer Culls Herd Because of H1N1 Support for Biodiesel Continues to Grow Iowans Eligible to Apply for $242,700 in Specialty Crop Funds Center at Ames Updates Pork Information Gateway Website FAQ: Certify your planted acres with FSA by June 30 Another Ethanol Group Joins Growth Energy Report 2009 Crop Acreage to USDA Farm Service Agency by June 30, 2009 Preconditioning Could Help Calf Profitability Preconditioning Could Help Calf Profitability Vilsack Discusses Projects for Wood-to-Energy and Biomass Utilization Shell Oil Selling CE10 Vilsack Appoints Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Animals Not Responsible for H1N1 Outbreak Animals Not Responsible for H1N1 Outbreak Spring's Cool and Wet Weather Favors Seedling Diseases ISU Research Farm Field Days for 2009 Weigh In on This More Grain Under the Big Top Farm Bureau Opposes Clean Water Restoration Act Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Pressure to Make NAIS Mandatory Ag Groups Still Focused on Climate and Energy Legislation More ARRA Funds Released County Committee Nominations Open Meat and Poultry Industry Big Contributor to U.S. Economy Meat and Poultry Industry Big Contributor to U.S. Economy Meat and Poultry Industry Big Contributor to U.S. Economy Harkin Calls on Officials to Push for Lift of Bans on U.S. Pork Harkin Calls on Officials to Push for Lift of Bans on U.S. Pork WPX Attendance Down but Participation Strong WPX Attendance Down but Participation Strong New Test Available for Angus Influenced Cattle Spray Drift Potential Increases During Warm Weather Applications Soybean Rust Is Stirring in Southern States Keep Your Scouting Manual Handy McCormick Upgrades Its CX Tractor Line Diagnose Corn Seedling Damage From Anhydrous Ammonia Cool Weather Makes Corn More Sensitive To Postemergence Herbicides Waxman-Markey Bill Discussed in Ag Committee Spread of H1N1 Virus Officially a Pandemic USMEF Reports Pork-Beef Export Numbers USMEF Reports Pork-Beef Export Numbers USMEF Reports Pork-Beef Export Numbers Food Processors Fee Passes House Panel 4-H Flag Going on Space Mission Manure Bill Signed Into Law Is Great News for Iowa's Cattle Industry Register Your Sensitive Crops and Honeybee Hives With IDALS Now Ethiopian Scientist Wins 2009 World Food Prize Syngenta Acquires Bio-Control Technology Ag Subcommittee Holds Stimulus Hearing Hobbie Speaks at International Grains Conference Rural Development Grants Released Cap and Trade Study Released New Technology Opens Door for Bio-based Motor Oils ISU Names New Head of Ag Entrepreneurship Initiative Raven Offers SmartRow and AccuRow NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State NAIS Listening Session Held in Show-Me State Indirect Land Use Hearing Held EPA Issues Stay on Permitting USTR Issues Cairns Statement Grassley Looks to GIPSA Attorneys to Keep Anti-Competitive Behavior at Bay AFBF Letter Supports Broadband Access Iowa Barn Tour June 13-14 to Feature 14 Northwest Iowa Barns Iowans Encouraged to Take Advantage of Farmers Markets Monsanto, BASF Scientists Disclose Discovery of Gene Conferring Drought Tolerance In Corn Plants RFA Talks About RFS Hearing and Life-cycle Workshops USDA Meets Obama's Biofuels Directive Dairy Farmers Receiving Early Payments Dairy Farmers Receiving Early Payments Immigration Legislation May Happen Leaders Balk at Obama Request for H1N1 Vaccine Funding Major Fall Trade Shows Scheduled Report 2009 Crop Acreage to USDA Farm Service Agency by June 30, 2009 EPA Banning Use of Furadan Insecticide on Crops Plenish High Oleic Soybean Oil Offers Trans Fat Solution Plenish High Oleic Soybean Oil Offers Trans Fat Solution Grassley Wants to 'Show and Tell' EPA Regulation Writers Potential Benefits of Pending FTAs Studied On Recent Trip Indirect Land Use Will Not Be In Final EPA Proposal More Support for Agriculture in Cap and Trade Bill FAS Reports on Colombian Biofuels Industry Western Iowa No-tillers to Hold Field Day June 16 Time to Use Late Spring Soil Nitrate Test for Corn Some Iowa Corn Showing Early Signs Of Stress Stalk Borers Forecast To Begin Moving Into Corn Beware Of Corn Size Restrictions For Applying Postemergence Herbicides Electric Service Improvements Funded by USDA NFU President Meets with Ag Secretary Lucas Asks Ag Secretary for Specifics on Cap and Trade Another USDA Deputy Undersecretary Named Armyworm, Wireworm Are Attacking Some Cornfields In Iowa Additional Electronic Trading Hours at CBOT Timely Application of Postemergence Herbicides Pays Dividends Webcast June 15 to Help Iowa Growers Make Farm Program Decisions Mathematical Models Help Predict Corn Production This Is Not A Happy Time For Pork Producers This Is Not A Happy Time For Pork Producers Hog Producers Face At Least Another Year Of Losses Hog Producers Face At Least Another Year Of Losses Steps You Can Take to Manage Spray Drift Congress to Review Request for Additional Funding to Fight Flu Pandemic Virus Requires Changes at World Pork Expo Virus Requires Changes at World Pork Expo NPB Moving Forward with Programs NPB Moving Forward with Programs Emergency Action Plan Tool Announced at WPX Emergency Action Plan Tool Announced at WPX Iowa Gov. Culver Says Obama Voices Support for Biofuels Biofuels Financial Conference to Focus on Financial State of Ethanol Industry Peterson Wants Ag Issues Resolved in Clean Energy Bill Senate Ag Committee to Discuss Derivatives, Speculation House Starts Work on Food Safety Overhaul Practical Farmers of Iowa Announces Field Day Line Up for 2009 Iowan Named to National Animal Ag Alliance Board Outer Continental Shelf Renewable Energy Meetings Scheduled Secretary Vilsack Announces Two Conservation Programs USTR Ron Kirk Travels to Russia to Discuss Trade Issues H1N1 Now Confirmed in All 50 States Check Root Health When Assessing Corn Stands Positive Bovine TB Test in Nebraska Positive Bovine TB Test in Nebraska Study Shows Impact of E15 Pork Checkoff Announces Leadership Program Participants Pork Checkoff Announces Leadership Program Participants USB and Soybean Checkoff Announce See for Yourself Participants Beef Recalls Announced Beef Recalls Announced Appropriations Take Center Stage in Washington New Resolution Raises Cattle Age Limits New Resolution Raises Cattle Age Limits Minnesota Senate Seat in Court's Hands Iowa Corn And Soybean Crops Off To A Great Start New Statistics Show Big Increase in Iowa Soil Conservation Efforts BASF and DuPont Sue Each Other for Patent Infringement Illini Tractor Pullers Take Overall Design Competition Award What To Do With Weedy Corn And Soybean Fields Eastern Corn Belt Far Behind Planting Pace Chinese Pork Professionals Training in U.S. Chinese Pork Professionals Training in U.S. Pork Safety Committee Shows Support for Safe Feed/Safe Food Program Pork Safety Committee Shows Support for Safe Feed/Safe Food Program AMI Informs Canadian House of Commons of Food Safety Progress Iowa NRCS Extends Organic EQIP Signup Senate Ag Committee Hearing on Derivatives Set Census Report Reflects Watershed Boundaries USDA Releases Livestock Income Figures Annual Milk Production Reported Annual Milk Production Reported New Tool Helps Corn Growers Make Better Cutworm Control Decisions FAQ: 2009 Farm Program Web cast set for June 15 BASF Sponsors Safety Training for Ag Pilots Dairy Industry Holding Rally Dairy Industry Holding Rally Deadline for Specialty Crop Assistance Funds Senators Attempt to Bring Climate Change Legislation to Floor President Responds to Biofuels Coalition ISU Predicts Cutting Dates For Black Cutworm On Corn Judith Canales Named to Rural Development Post Ag Secretary Announces $143 Million to Improve Infrastructure Across Rural America Hot Weather to Benefit Plains USDA Needs Your Cooperation to Gather Information on 2009 Crops Iowa Department of Ag's 2009 Budget Information Available Online Time To Scout For Soybean Seedling Diseases Online Tickets Available for 2009 Farm Progress Show Additional NAIS Listening Sites Named Rural Mental Health Study Released Growing Support for Biodiesel President Releases ARRA Funds for Energy Increased Costs for Food Production Facilities Under Proposed Legislation Benefits of No-Till Shown Through Field Study Survey of FFA Members Shows Iowa's Future Is in Good Hands Grasslands: The Future of Sustainable Agriculture FAQ: ISU Schedules Farm Program information meetings Load in Under 4 Feet! We Test Drive Miller's Portable Plasma Cutter Broadband Strategy for Rural America Released Farmland Equipment Sales Slump To Lowest Level in Four Years Increased Production Goals in Morocco Opens Doors for U.S. Grain EPA Looks at Alternative Energy Production Biodiesel Safety a Priority Science Based Comments Being Prepared on RFS Floss Elected Board President of Iowa Livestock Coalition Learn How to Get Started Grass-Feeding Beef at PFI Field Day Delivering The Mash Goodyear Goes Off-road Europe Upset over USDA Export Allocation Move Europe Upset over USDA Export Allocation Move Comment Time Extended for E15 Request FAQ: Does cash rent landlord have to sign POA form? Colombia Trade Gets Farmer Scrutiny Ag Marketing Resource Center Assists Farmers Applying for Grants DNR Will No Longer Send Reminders to Livestock Producers Quick Change Artist from Kuhn House Committee Approves Climate Change Bill NPPC Supports Passage of Panama FTA NPPC Supports Passage of Panama FTA Send Your Comments to EPA Supporting Higher Ethanol Blends Senators Introduce Bill to Help Livestock Farmers Stay Competitive AutoFarm Unveils Envizio Pro Late Planting Doesn't Require As Many Seeds Per Acre FAQ: Certification and 'planted acre' calculations are very important Midwest Farmland Values Plummet Livestock Marketing Fairness Act Introduced Livestock Marketing Fairness Act Introduced Renewable Power Passes Key Test RFS2 Under Review Grassley Introduces Companion to Peterson's Bill to Protect Biofuel Industry U.S. - Panama FTA Under Scrutiny New Food Safety Web Site Launched How To Control Volunteer Corn Now Popping Up In Fields Cyclone Power Pullers Build 4-Engine 'Wild CYde' Tractor Register Now for June IBC Cattle Feeders' Conference Brinsea's New Incubator NFU Backs Increasing Ethanol Blend in Gasoline Early Season Weeds Are Already Competing With Crops ISU Researcher Ready to Produce Vaccine for H1N1 Flu Virus in Swine Soybean Checkoff Referendum Petition Circulates Could Soybeans Be Headed for 'Uncharted' 7.6 Million Acres? Study Shows Biotech Crops Good for the Environment Company Expands Wheat Milling Capacity U.S. Dairy Industry Groups Urge Passage of Cuba Trade Bills Milk Industry Unites Against Proposed Tax on Chocolate Milk Milk Industry Unites Against Proposed Tax on Chocolate Milk Important VeraSun Deadline Approaching Gensler Nomination Ratified House Members Speak Out Against Energy Plan South Koreans Turn Out H1N1 Vaccine President Announces New Energy Guidelines Plan to Attend 4-State Dairy Conference at Dubuque Iowa-Illinois to Host National Value-Added Ag Conference Ag Manufacturers Make the Right Connections Ag Manufacturers Make the Right Connections FAQ: How to use county "plug yields" from FSA CWT Auditors Start Taking Cows off Farms Beef Board Outlines Recommended Budget Beef Board Outlines Recommended Budget USDA Seeks Applications to Repair Rural Housing Farm Works Rolls Out New Web Site Iowa Corn Planting Is Now 90% Complete, Soybeans 41% EPA's Proposed Rules a Mixed Bag for Iowa Ethanol and Biodiesel More Opposition to Current Climate Legislation EPA Extends Comment Period WHO Meeting Focusing on H1N1 Flu H1N1 Virus Mapped Funds Released to Protect Private Forests Polaris Offers New Palette of Limited Edition Models AFBF PAL Class Announced Gestation and Veal Crates Banned in Maine USDA Funding Rural Community Facility Projects NCGA Concerned with Contents of Climate Change Bill Will You Trade, or be Capped? WHO Counters Virus Source Statement Vilsack Names New Deputy Administrator and Others Guest Worker Legislation Introduced REG Signs Agreement to Buy Three Biodiesel Plants EPA Action on Furadan Insecticide Basically Bars Its Use Thunderstorm Season Adds Another Risk to Corn Should You Replant A Disappointing Corn Stand? ISU Economist Provides Short-Term Outlook For Corn And Soybean Prices Canadian Officials Confirm Another BSE Case China Investing in Agriculture Production NFU Wants Action on Climate Change Peterson Introduces Legislation to Protect Domestic Biofuel Industry Bobcat Digs It With American-made Excavators USDA Now Has Cash Rent Data for Your County USDA Extends Certain Conservation Reserve Program Contracts Kuhn Offers Beefed-up Rotary Rakes FAQ: FSA clarifies how to prove your yields for ACRE Synchronized Biotech Introduction is Goal for Wheat Groups FAQ: FSA Releases More ACRE Rules Tote That Bale With DewEze 165ss Scan-Kleen Filters Wash Easily CWT Announces Largest-Ever Herd Retirement Senate Blocks Confirmation of Interior Nominee Lucas Has Cap and Trade Concerns Democrats Relax House Emissions Bill Human Error May Have Caused H1N1 White House Food Safety Working Group Meeting Held U.S., EU Sign Beef Deal CSIF Marks Five Years of Serving Farmers, Communities Deadlines to Apply for USDA Value-Added Ag Grants Ground Beef Recall Announced CWT Announces Largest-Ever Herd Retirement Secretary Appoints Another Deputy Undersecretary New Ethanol Plant Begins Producing Near Grand Junction Iowa Corn Opportunities Announces Strategic Investment WASDE Confirms Strong Grain Markets Conditions Paradis to Serve as Administrator of Food and Nutrition Service EPA Says Indirect Emissions is Law EPA Administrator Testifies at Senate Hearing DuPont Receives Canadian Regulatory Approval for High Oleic Soybean Trait Iowa Has 81% Of Corn, 21% Of Soybean Planting Completed Ag Secretary Holds Rural Community Forums RFA Speaks Out About Greenhouse Gas Emission Rules TV For Women Farmers and Ranchers Introduced Ag Education Planned for Urban Reporters Canadian H1N1 Herd Culled New AMS Administrator Announced Where Are the Bean Leaf Beetles? More to the Story of Mapping the Cow Genome Outback Offers New Big Screen Sign-up Starts May 11 for Organic Farming Assistance Program Time to Zap Winter Annual Weeds and Protect Crop Yields Whole Genome Not the Whole Story Pork Board Working to Reinforce That Pork is Safe to Eat OMB Provides Insight into President's Ag Budget Proposal States Receive Grants to Strengthen National School Meals Programs Census Data Broken Down by Congressional District NMPF To Form Strategic Planning Task Force To Examine Solutions To Dairy Challenges Researchers Find Better TSE Test Hog Operating Losses Have Skyrocketed Since H1n1 Virus Does Starter Fertilizer Become Less Critical Later in Season? Don't Limit Bean Yield By Planting On Soils Too Wet Take Time To Check Corn Stands As Young Plants Pop Up Feds Ready H1N1 Contingency Plan for Hogs and Poultry Start Watching For Cutworms When Corn Emerges Pigs and People May Soon Eat Their Way to Flu Resistance More Iowans Claim Prizes in Iowa Corn Fed Sweepstakes WASDE Report Changes Announced USDA Offers Rural Development Loans and Grants AFBF Not Happy with US-EU Beef Agreement Senate Committee Holds Cap and Trade Hearing Farm Bureau Asks for Section 32 Support for Pork Russia Continues to Manipulate Pork Imports CWT Bid Period Closes US-EU Beef Agreement Doesn't Do Enough Vilsack Meets With Dairy Producers Bovine Genome Map Already Helps Producers EPA Scientific Advisory Panel Report on Optimum AcreMax 1 House Holds Hearing On Indirect Land Use Change USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources Named More Staff at USDA Announced New GIPSA Director Announced DFA Representatives Get Reassurances from Secretary USDA Sets Aside Funds for Lawsuit Settlement Outback 185 Takes Power to the Job Site Plant Beans Following Beans to Get Rotation Back in Order? Farm Bureau: 2009 Iowa Legislature Addressed Some Urgent Issues EU and US Reach Provisional Agreement in Beef Dispute New Food Inspection Directive Released Time to Settle Pigford - Glickman Case Bovine Genome Map Already Helps Producers Bovine Genome Map Already Helps Producers First Step Toward Resolving Two Decade Beef Dispute H1N1 May Impact Beef Too Despite Sick Pigs H1N1 Seems to be Winding Down House Ag and Homeland Security Committees Review Nation Animal ID Weather Has Delayed Field Work in Corn Belt Forestland Dollars Released EPA Proposes Renewable Energy Goals Deadline Is June 1 to Apply for Iowa Century Farm Program 2009 Iowa Legislature Adjourns - Summary of Ag Related Bills Horse Slaughter Bill Now Montana Law ISU Says California Law Negative to Corn Pork Industry Asking USDA for Help Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Seven Sites Selected for National Animal ID Listening Sessions Monsanto Files Lawsuit Against DuPont, Pioneer Funds Available to Support Organic Farming USDA, EPA and DOE Form Biofuels Interagency Working Group H1N1 Winding Down Despite Sick Pigs Beef Could Be Impacted by H1N1 Petition to Request Checkoff Referendum Put Forward Rural America is Underinsured R-CALF Encourages Participation in Listening Sessions Iowa Corn Planting Now 60% Complete Statewide Don't Be Misled - Early Planting of Soybeans Is Important in Iowa Baucus to Introduce Cuban Trade Bill Results of How Farmers Are Viewed Released Flu Found in Canadian Pigs Budget Cuts Force Major Restructuring of ISU Extension Pay Attention to Soil Crusting After Heavy Rain Financial Strain Expected Due To H1N1 Influenza AAA Dismayed at Animal Rights Groups CRP Extension Available for Many Expiring Contracts National Animal ID Listening Sessions Set Pork's Return to Profitability Likely to Take Longer Why Dow AgroSciences Technology Is Big Step Forward Iowa Corn Growers Encourage You to Send Comments To EPA More Seed Treatments Being Used on Beans Be Safe When Operating Farm Equipment on Public Roads Iowans Urged To Help Prevent Spread of 'New Flu' To Hogs Farm Bureau Supports Raising Blend Wall New Manure System Exceeds Environmental Standards Another Name for H1N1 Virus Hormone Free U.S. Beef to EU? Rural America Solutions Group Formed EU May Accept U.S. Beef USDA Helps North Dakota Livestock Industry Subcommittee Investigates Civil Rights at USDA Ag Department Appointments Reviewed Thursday Alert Level is One Notch Below Pandemic NFU, NCGA Favor Cap and Trade System New Glyphosate Resistance Stewardship Guide Available World Pork Expo in Des Moines June 3-5, 2009 2010 Budget Resolution Passes Out of Congress USDA Issues 100 Day Report Grants Are Available to Help Rural Businesses Dow AgroSciences Confirms Precise Genome Modification in Maize Weather Causes More Spring Planting Delays Flu Continues to Spread Beyond North America Black Farmers Protest at USDA American Grown Goodness Program Begins Canada Begins WTO Action Against U.S Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program Cutoff Is May 15 Experts to Speak at Central Iowa Wind Energy Conference COOL Being Challenged By Canada COOL Being Challenged By Canada COOL Being Challenged By Canada Broadband Grant Applications Being Accepted Rural Water Projects Announced Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Funds Available Good Start to Corn Planting Baseless Bans of U.S. Pork Have Already Happened Government Watching North American Influenza Situation Beware of Planting Restrictions Following 2,4-D Applications Early Planting and Soybean Disease Considerations Water Research and Development Act Passes House NSP Clarifies Failed Crop Clause 'North American Influenza' Spreads Alfalfa Weevils Are Hatching in Iowa Hay Fields How Do You Balance Corn Plant Populations With Higher Seed Costs? Several Countries Have Stopped U.S. Pork Imports Congressional Committees Looking into Influenza Situation Fear That Flu Could Develop into Pandemic is Driving Markets Lower Deere Offers Tier 3 Reman Engines Ag Secretary Addresses Flu Situation SA Flex Eases Loading California Ethanol Move Sparks Strong Reaction ACRE Sign-up Finally Begins FSIS Administrator Wants Risk Ranking Food Safety Legislation Could Be Next Congress Has Tentative Budget Deal CCC Announces Crop Loan Rates Know What You're Paying For in Stacked Hybrids Take Note Of Soil Temperature To Predict Corn Emergence National Pork Board Urges Increased Bio-Security Plans Swine Flu Confirmed in Southwest Checkoff Helps Drive Consumer Interest in Beef Middle Meats CARB Approves Low Carbon Fuel Standard Consultants Now Required for Aerial Pesticide Applicators 2009 World Food Prize Symposium Theme Announced FDA Sets Final Feed Rules Food Safety Requires Public-Private Partnership USDA to Check Changing Face of Agriculture Genome Sequence Sheds Light On Ruminant Evolution FDA to Implement Feed Ban Despite Public Objections Midwest Dairy Association Elects Officers Beef Checkoff-funded Veal Retail Campaign Going Strong Don't Panic Yet Just Because You Can't Plant Corn Ag Committee Reviews Crop Insurance Program Take Time To Manage Spring Field Risks ISU Funds Seven Projects Addressing New Challenges to Agriculture Organic Flax Production Is Growing in Iowa Obama Presents Alternative Energy and Jobs Plan Draft Energy Bill Reviewed on Capitol Hill EPA Releases Review of Climate Bill USDA Civil Rights Agenda Outlined by Ag Secretary Don't Have a Dairy Budget? Get $1,500 Vilsack Addresses Concerns About EPA Finding California's Decision on Low Carbon Fuel Standard Will Impact Entire Country Winter Wheat Progress Not Fairing Well Will 2009 Be a Soybean Aphid Year? Cargill Achieves Eight Critical Animal Welfare Goals HHS Nominee Passes Senate Committee Hearing Bill Banning Antibiotics in Animals Passes Committee Rural Development Funds Released Earth Day Celebration Covering Several Days Agriculture Feeling the Impact of Recession Iowa Has 6% Of Corn Planted As Of April 19 EPA Greenhouse Gas Decision Draws More Unfavorable Reactions Interior Department Distributes Restoration Funds NCGA Files Comments on Proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standards Vilsack Returns from G8 Meeting Obama Administration to Cut Expenses at Cabinet Level Iowa Ag Department Revokes Watkins Elevator's Grain Dealer License Dedicated Ethanol Pipeline Still Under Consideration USDA Economist Talks Ag Economy Iowa Biodiesel Board Applauds Iowa Senate's B5 Legislation Anhydrous Ammonia Application and Planting Corn EPA Issues Finding That Greenhouse Gasses Pose Threat U.S. and Mexico to Collaborate on Climate and Clean Energy President Makes Two More USDA Nominations Report Recommends Changes to Food Safety System Canadians Ready with WTO Challenge Vilsack Calls for Investment in Ag Develpment to G8 Agricultural Ministerial FAQ: Why Wouldn't a Farmer Want to Sign up for ACRE? Iowa Watersheds Get $1.4 Million Of Federal Stimulus Money Do You Really Need Soybean Seed Treatment? When Is The Best Time To Plant Corn In Iowa? EPA Wants Input on Raising Ethanol Blend Wall Delegation Provides U.S. View on Global Food Security at G8 Lawsuit Attempting to Limit Ethanol Blending Is Dismissed Miller Wildcat Provides Welder/generator Tree-Killing Emerald Ash Borer Threatens to Invade Iowa New Requirements for Commercial Pesticide Applications Vilsack Taps Environment and Climate Advisor Iowa Legislation Would Set Alternative Fuel Standard CBO Ethanol Report Discussed by Agricultural Organizations Stimulus Money for Natural Resources Conservation Announced Farm Sector Economy Stronger than Other Sectors Iowa Researchers Growing Sugar Beets for Biofuel ISU Announces New Extension Entomologist for Field Crops 2009 Word Food Prize Symposium Theme Announced AFBF Addresses Broadband Funding & Services USDA Asking Questions About Animal Identification FAQ: Will FSA Accept Crop Insurance Yield Data as Evidence for ACRE? USDA Continues to Fill Staff Positions Nebraska Has First Ethanol Blender Pumps Prices Favorable for Chinese Purchase of U.S. Corn Lifting Cuban Travel Restrictions Good 'First Step' GMO Corn Banned in Germany Iowa Cattlemen's Foundation Awards $3,000 in Scholarships Company Plans to Make Ammonia From Cobs in Central Iowa AFBF Outlines Goals for Climate Change No General CRP Sign-up In 2009 Russia Shuffles Eligible U.S. Pork Plants FAS Adds Country Pages to Web Site Major Storms Sweeping Across U.S. WaterScout Keeps Tabs on Field Moisture John Deere Announces New Global Operating Model for Sustainable Growth Scuse Named Deputy Under Secretary of FFAS Lean Pork Weighs In Just in Time for Swimsuit Season Haul With/Without Passengers With New Kubota Winter Wheat Heading May Indicate Southern Plains Condition Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council Announces National Reproduction Awards Some Corn Already Planted In Iowa EPA Responds to Request for Review of Pesticide Rule President Loosens Some Cuban Related Controls Private Water Systems Handbook Available From MWPS New Guide for Glyphosate Stewardship India Balking on Carbon Sequestration Military Studies Alternative Energy Duckweed Could Replace Corn in Ethanol Vilsack Unveils Updated Research, Education and Economics Information System FFAS Deputy Under Secretary Choosen February Beef Exports Maintain Strong Momentum Supermarkets, Commissaries Support Pork Promotions Delay of Feed Ban Rule Proposed by FDA FDA Wants to Delay Feed Ban Rule Food Safety Progress Not Where CDC Would Like USDA Names Under Secretaries and Additional Staff Groups Step In Where EPA Won't Changes Coming in Marketing Assistance Loans Evaluate Injury to Alfalfa and Forage Crops in April Time to Manage Winter Annual Weeds in No-till Fields FAQ: Does ACRE Payment Come from Base Acres or Planted Acres? Set Up Field Trials Carefully Corn Growers Optimistic About Upcoming Planting Season Sign Up Now For 29th Annual Iowa Agricultural Youth Institute April Is 'Iowa One Call Month' and 'National Safe Digging Month' New Incentive to Encourage Summer Conservation Construction NPPC Wants Russia's WTO Accession Slowed Canada Wants WTO Help with South Korean Beef Dispute New Zealand Ambassador to Head Ag Negotiations CBO Report Shows Ethanol Has Little Impact on Food Prices Red River Valley Bracing for More High Water Try Our Crossword Puzzle In Wallaces Farmer NPPC Wants Russia's WTO Accession Slowed FAQ: ACRE Program Enrollment Begins April 27 Broadband Access Plan Under Development ACRE Sign-up Start Date Finally Set USDA Officials Sworn into Office Reduce Hay Losses Through Smart Harvesting, Storing, Feeding Reecy Named Director of Biotechnology at ISU Drought Impacting Winter Wheat Conditions Study Shows 29,000 Cooperatives Employ More Than 2 Million Meat and Poultry Inspection is Not Broken NPPC Calls for Corn-Ethanol Study McDonald's Japan Sells with Aus NLIS Support for PQA Plus Gains Momentum Aventine Renewable Energy is Latest to File Bankruptcy Obama Pressured to Let Mexican Truckers Through Wireless Monitoring With Vision Works Ag Secretary Announces $17 Million in Grants for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers MAL and LDP Programs Have New Regulations Senators Want Stiff Payment Requirements Nut Problems with Salmonella Expand Poultry Organizations File Suit Against EPA ISU Receives $600,000 from EPA to Study Water Quality Trading USDA Says MILC Payments Are on Their Way to Dairy Farmers Dairy Farmers of America Earns National Recognition From Dannon FDA Ignoring Environmental and Economic Impacts of Feed Ban Senate Ag Leadership Express Concern Over Pesticide Ruling Congress in Recess But Plenty of Work Awaits Funding Released to Rehabilitate Flood Control Structures Experts Focus on Real World Climate Change Costs Some Biotech Testing Ends in Japan Cotton Industry Wants No Program Changes Keep Your Sprayer Moving in the Field Leopold Center Local Foods Workshop Draws Record Crowd Massey Ferguson Offers Six New Compact Tractor Models Farm Progress to Expand Husker Harvest Days Show Deadline Extension Gives Farmers More Time To Decide Iowa Severe Weather Awareness Week April 6 to 10 G20 Communiqué Says Global Crisis Needs Global Solution Poultry Products Recalled Bill Promoting Pipelines Introduced Lucas Rejects Democratic Budget SNAP Benefits Increased to Combat Hunger Nitrogen Sensing Moves Closer to Commonplace It's Time To Evaluate Alfalfa Stands Iowa Soybean Association Travels To China Extension Fact Sheets Address Issues Facing Dairy Farms and How to Manage Them LibertyLink Soybeans Approved for Import into Korea BQ-9000 Program Unveiled FY 2010 Budget Passes House Climate Change Measure Won't Place Economy at Global Disadvantage Food Safety Focus Begins for House Ag Committee Base Acreage on Federal Land Reinstated Sugar Alliance Wants Sugar Quota to Remain Unchanged High School Students Selected for Borlaug-Ruan Internships Spring Cleaning Tips for Biodiesel Tanks Harden Chosen to Head USDA Congressional Relations House Ag Committee Reviewing Food Safety Tips for Managing Corn Residue in Continuous Corn Everyone Benefits When Farmers, Environmentalists Work Together Inaccurate Facts and Omissions Contradict EC Duties on Biodiesel MILC Payments Being Calculated VP And Ag Secretary Announce Recovery Funds Possible Source of Pistachio Contamination Found HOBOnode Does It Wirelessly Iowa To Plant 1% Less Corn, 1% More Soybeans Dow, Syngenta to Cross-License Crop Tech Vilsack Testifies on Ag Issues Within Administration's Budget Pork Producers Pleased by USDA Pork Purchases Senate Ag Committee to Hold Hearing on Four Nominations Farm Bureau Wants Cuba Restrictions Lifted Senate Ag Committee Addresses Child Nutrition Silage Management Tips as Temperatures Rise ISU Updates Corn Nitrogen Rate Calculator Egg Industry Center Hosts First Issues Forum April 8 Setton Pistachio Announces Recall Feds Announce Yamaha Recall of Rhino 450 and 600s ACRE and DCP Sign-up Extended Farmers Wary of Proposed Rules for Winter Manure Application When Should You Use an Inoculant on Soybean Seed? GPS Steering Makes the Job Easier President Signs Public Lands Law Farm Bureau Opposed to Proposed H-2A Changes USDA Seeks Comments on Conservation Grants Dairy Farmers of America Marks 11 Years of Industry Service At Annual Meeting Pork Act Delegates Overwhelmingly Support Pork Quality Assurance Plus Hog Numbers Shrink Cargill Advances Animal Welfare Leadership Poly Diker From May Wes Budget Sent to Floor Recommendations to be Released at Energy Summit Dam Hearing Set Rust Resistance Possible FSA to Hold Meetings on ACRE Program in Southwest Iowa Landfill Gas Now Powers a Large Ethanol Plant Final Stand Counts When It Comes to Cornfields Some Farmers Eligible For Conservation Compliance Variances Next Generation Of Latham's Acquires Family's Seed Business Flooding Continues In Upper Midwest NCGA Forms Climate Change Task Force Bill Introduced to Change Cuban Payment Rule 2009 Farm Custom Rate Survey Results Available Poet, Magellan Jointly Study Possible Ethanol Pipeline Bill to Establish Wildfire Fund Passes House EPA Nominee Steps Down U.S. Firefighters Honored for Work in Australia Monsanto Issues Grant for Scholarships USDA Moves to Help Dairy Sector and Nutrition Programs Damaged Grain Is Worth Less Each Day At Age 95 Bourlaug Still Involved in Fighting Crop Disease Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Conservation Payments Cellulosic Ethanol Executives Push for 15% Blend Farm Bureau, Others, Against California Carbon Score Proposal OMB Director Backs Subsidy Caps Derivatives Bill Gains Support Control Powdery Mildew Red Meat Industry Quick to Refute Study Second Quarter Hog Slaughter Projected Down 5% EPA Says Greenhouse Gasses Are Pollutants Grassley Wants FDA Memo Clarified Obama Talks Energy Alternatives Synching Beef Cow Estrus Cycles Is Now a Lot Easier Professor Named to Lead ISU's BioCentury Research Farm USDA Staff Appointments Made USDA Announces Another Position USTR Already at Work Poultry Being Euthanized in Texas Poultry Being Euthanized in Texas Russians Ban Poultry from Three U.S. Processors Federal Truck Weight Law Introduced Renewable Energy Summit to Be Held FAS Administrator Named WTO Economists: World Trade Down Thicke Forms Committee, May Run for Iowa Secretary of Ag Rappelling Without Residual Herbicides? FAQ: How USDA's New ACRE Revenue Guarantee Program Works Spring Is Here - Will Iowa Have Good Planting Weather? Consider Your Options for Dealing With Stalk Borer Trade Officials See WTO Agreement Still Has Potential Broadband Leader named for USDA Rice Growers Could See More Exports to Cuba Senators Line Up to Support Food for Peace Program Low-yielding Spots Hurt Overall Yield Biodiesel Backers Push Legislature For Mandate Spring Weather Brings Problems With Stored Corn Group Urges Obama Administration to Take Action in Dairy Crisis Wallaces Farmer Names 2009 Master Farmers USDA, IRS Join Forces Pork Checkoff Offers Management Conference Cellulosic Firms Back Higher Ethanol Blends Iowa Ag Property Assessments Increasing in 2009 New Organization and Web Site Serves Iowa Property Owners AgStar Lending Sees Potential Buyers for Ethanol Assets VeraSun Deals Get Court's Stamp of Approval Conference on Food Aid Focuses on Global Crisis Hearings Set to Talk About High-Speed Web Access Cracks Starting to Show in Blend Wall for Biofuels IRFA Endorses Official Waiver Request for E15 FAQ: Does ACRE Replace Crop Insurance? McCormick Turns Corner, Sees Solid Future EU Offers More Beef Imports to End Hormone Dispute New ACRE Tools Available from FSA Program Already Available for Humane Animal Treatment VeraSun Asset Sale Draws Plenty of Bidders Economy Is Slow Now, But Higher Commodity Prices Are Ahead Iowa's Waters Focus of New Leopold Center Annual Report Grain Industry Monitors New Mexican Tariff Plan Disaster Assistance Offered by USDA Today is National Biodiesel Day - Celebrate! Group Applauds Antibiotic Resistance Bill New Report Looks at Swine Gestation Systems New Survey Shows Corn Planting Intentions Slip 4% for 2009 FAQ: New Rules on USDA Payment Limitations Another Ethanol Producer on Financial Ropes Bipartison Group Calls on EPA to Go Slow on Ethanol Rules Iowa Joins Corn Farmers Coalition to Reach Policy Makers Iowan to Become President of National Pork Producers Scientists Develop New 'Triple Threat' Corn Agco to Use Topcon Tierra for Telematics AutoFarm Announces Upgrade Program Purdue Experts Question Antibiotic Resistance Claims Beef Group Pulls Out of Food vs. Fuel Coalition President Nominates Two More to USDA Rule on Non-Ambulatory Cattle Finalized Celebrate National Ag Week Plant Corn in the Mud Not the Answer Here's Help for Managing in Tough Economic Times Celebrate Agriculture's Economic Benefit to Iowa Coalition Opposes Cuts in Safety Net House Ag Committee Wants Many Viewpoints Interior Secretary Orders Renewable Energy Projects Questions Pile Up from WTO Members 2009 Wind Energy Conference March 20 In Fairfield Iowa Farmland Values Decline 7.6% Grants for Energy Audits Available House Agriculture Committee Adopts Budget Letter Rural Development Funds Electrical Upgrade Loans Money for Iowa Water Quality Improvement Projects Approved Can Soil Insecticide Boost Yield of CRW Trait Hybrids? Dairy Markets Are a Concern FAQ: MILC Program Brings Aid To Dairy Farmers Iowa Couple Named National Outstanding Young Farmers Iowa Crop Performance Test for Corn Celebrates 90 Years Cow Tax Legislation Now Has House Companion Good News for DDGS Exports Democratic Senators Unveil Rural Agenda Labor and Tax Issues Key to Panama Agreement Committee Hearing on Animal ID Pork Checkoff Honors Sam Hines with Distinguished Service Award 2008 Pork Industry Environmental Steward Award Winners Announced Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID Mandatory or Voluntary Remains the Big Issue for Animal ID CWT Achieves Membership Goal of Two-Thirds of U.S. Milk Supply Any Future Automobile Bailout Should Include Ethanol Requirements Purdue Economists Present Update on Factors Driving Food Prices Farm Bill Provisions Ease Organic Transition Process NFU Meeting Wraps Up Kirk Testifies Before Senate Committee Broadband Initiative Begins Johnson Wins Farmer Union Election; ND to Get New Ag Commissioner Iowa Ag Property Assessments Increasing In 2009 Here's Help For Managing In Tough Economic Times New NPPC Officers Elected First E. Coli Vaccine for Cattle Licensed Officials Throw Support Behind Higher Ethanol Blend House Agriculture Committee Reviewing National Animal Identification System National Farmers Union Electing New President Iowa Corn, Soybean Growers Push Policy Resolutions Moving To No-till Is a Challenge, but There Are Opportunities Too Air Delivery by Gandy FAPRI Reports to Congress Vilsack Announces Release of Recovery Funds Allotted to USDA Last Minute Crop Insurance Questions And Answers Broadband Initiative Announcement Scheduled Report Shows Benefits to Raising Ethanol Blend Limit Chile DDG Test Results Favorable Signs of Spring: Robins, Vultures and Planting Corn Iowa Beef Producer on Meat Mission to Mexico Starter Fertilizer Question Hinges on Planting Date National Pork Board Honors Producers During Annual Meeting Anhydrous Ammonia Applicators Have New Safety Issue March 15 Is Deadline To Apply For Crop Disaster Assistance Program FAQ: New farm bill enhances beginning farmer provisions Workshops to Assist With Manure and Nutrient Management Plans North Central Iowa Workshop to Discuss Farm Tile Drainage AFBF Leader Asks for Liberal Trade Policy Senators Introduce Legislation to Tackle Cow Tax USSEC Names Interim CEO Purdue Economist Advises Being Conservative and Defensive EPA Seeks Farmer Cooperation FDA Overhaul Bill Presented Fertilizer Price Situation Is Still at a Stand-off Yes - You Can Boost Yield of Continuous Corn On-the-spot pH Accuracy CCC Rates Announced for March Should You Enroll in ACRE? Dow AgroSciences, Schillinger Seed Announces Licensing, R&D FAQ: Landlord participation in the Average Crop Revenue Election Animal Improvement Grants Issued Administration Releases Trade Policy Agenda Johnson Throws Hat in NFU Ring More Tax Troubles for Presidential Nominees Iowa Finalizes Cellulosic Ethanol Partnership with POET Meetings Set to Hear Comments on 'Frozen Ground' Manure Rule Texas Places Controls on Incoming Bulls Philippine Pork Market to Remain Open Obama to Appoint Sebelius to HHS Post See for Yourself Tour Accepting Participants Producers Favor Biotech Traits in Wheat Philippine Pork Market to Remain Open Beef Exports up in 2008 First Group of Winners Announced in Iowa Corn Fed Sweepstakes Consider Ways to Avoid Soil Compaction This Spring Report Quantifies Animal Agriculture Attacks Cheese Can Help to Reduce Risk Of Certain Cancers, Research Finds Addressing Consumer Demands For Socially Responsible Pork Production Pork Checkoff Offers Pork Management Conference - Your Pork Industry Investment New Beef Videos Canadian Cattlemen Ready to Move Against COOL Bobcat Company and Polaris Industries Inc. Announce Long-Term Strategic Alliance FAQ: Do I need to buy crop insurance to qualify for SURE? Canadian Cattlemen Ready to Move Against COOL Canadian Cattlemen Ready to Move Against COOL U.S. Sorghum Going to Canada Senators Want Delay in Chinese Cotton Registry Federal Drought Action Team Activated ASA Voting Delegates Set Policy Direction ICGA Pushes Ethanol Resolutions at NCGA Corn Congress How Will Uncertain Economy Affect Planting Intentions? Seed.Pro Streamlines Seed Processing Late-planted Corn Lodged Easier Last Fall SmartStax Corn Trait Expected for 2010 Planting Supplemental Revenue Assistance (SURE) Buy-In Is Reopened It's Decision Time For Farmers Buying Crop Insurance Gross Sales Will Be Used for Payment Limits EPA Approves AVICTA Seed Treatment Fungicide Dairy Prices Will Trigger MILC Payments NCGA President Dickey Reviews the 2008 Corn Year Researchers Credit Soybean Group for Genome Support Go On-Line to Measure Your Farm's Health Select Genetics, Traits for Right Seed on Right Acres Yellow Corn, Wet Soils, N Loss Lessons of 2008 Farm Earnings to Fall Ag Budget To Hold About Steady ASA Leaders Address USDA Inspector General Investigation Monsanto Launches Genuity Brand for Seed Products Monsanto Launches Genuity Brand for Seed Products FAQ: Where to get information on new USDA farm programs New Iowa "Bee Rule" Will Better Protect Health of Honeybees Quality of Iowa Topsoil Has Declined NFU President Stepping Down Hearing Held on CFTC Nominee Fed Chair Cautious in Statement on Economy ASA Bars USSF Delegates Agrium Launches Bid to Buy CF Industries Time to Order Fertilizer Deadline for Crop Insurance Is March 16 Hearing on USTR Possible Next Week ISU College of Ag Presents Awards to Faculty, Staff Court Decides to Regulate Farm Dust Governors Want Blend Wall Lifted Deadline Looms For Farmers Who Have VeraSun Claims FAQ: Information needed to prepare for ACRE Senate Committee Members Want Review of Cuba Policy Ag Census Shows Growth in Iowa Fruit & Vegetable Production Concern Continues About Wet, Damaged Corn Obama Pledges to Cut Deficit in Half Argentine Farmers Strike Continues Announcements from President Obama Expected Ag Outlook Forum This Week USDA Encourages Voluntary COOL Practices USDA Encourages Voluntary COOL Practices USDA Encourages Voluntary COOL Practices Final COOL Rule to Go Into Effect as Planned Organizations React to End of Merger President Signed Energy Agreement with Canada Congress Holding Hearings on Several Issues Be Aware of New Rules on USDA Payment Limitations Farmers Benefit from Biotech Endorsement Expansion All-electric Bad Boy How to Make The Same Hybrid Look Different It's Time to Consider Frost Seeding Pastures Survey Shows Expected Increase In Soybeans National FFA Week Coming Up Fertilizer Shortage Could Hinder Corn Crop Court Approves VeraSun Auction JBS Deal With National Beef Falls Through Marlin Rice Resigns as ISU Extension Entomologist International Harvester Collectors Convention March 5-7 at Waterloo USDA Cattle on Feed Report Coming Friday Groups Respond to JBS Announcement Sustainable Food Lab Announces Conference Obama Makes First Foreign Trip as President Not Enough Interest in Pork Checkoff Referendum Kinda Cuban Showcases Pork at Tropical Smoothie Cafe FAQ: Get a head start on enrolling in ACRE Vet Shortage Continues Report Card Issued On Beef Checkoff Program Obama Administration Wants Stronger COOL Less Nitrogen Could Increase Profit, Sustainability Iowa FFA Members Invade State Capitol Montana Offers P-Series New Organic Ag Web Site Features Land-Grant University Research Pioneer Rolls Out New Umbrella Brand Obama Signs Stimulus Bill into Law Pharmaceuticals Pay Dividends Trilateral Meeting Uncovers Common Goals Weaker Land Prices Are Forecast for 2009 Hypertherm Unveils Portable Plasma Cutter Cornbelt Cow-Calf Conference Is February 28 Iowa Learning Farm Offers Free Planter Clinic March 4 Livestock Losses Limited by Pharmaceutical Technology Pork Checkoff Referendum Won't Be Held CWT Finishes Latest Herd Retirement Round Web Site Promotes Careers in Pork Production ReinTech is Born to Reinke and Pivotrac Jaguar Harvester Gets New Options NASS to Release County Crop Yields March 2 Budget Cuts Cause ISU to Close Food Research Facility Economic Recovery Package Going to President Moran Supports OCS Development PCA Files for Chapter 7 Protection John Deere Risk Protection Offers New Crop Delivery Contract Policy DFA Takes Action to Help Members Peanut Recall Will Expand Wallaces Farmer Honored With Distinguished Service Award Legislature's Review of Tax Credits Has Corn Growers Concerned Groups Meet to Discuss Cattle Industry JBS Abandons National Beef Acquisition How Thick To Plant Still a Hot Topic Who Should Control Internet Dollars in Stimulus? Not Just the Internet – YouTube Livestock Coalition Meets With USDA Iowa Farmers Urged To Assist USDA With Survey Iowans Named To National Beef Checkoff Committees Get Information About New USDA Farm Programs Farm Sector Poised for Long-Term Growth Stimulus Package Goes to the Floor Corn and Ethanol Industries Fire Back Following Ethanol Attacks State Fertilizer Regulations, Licensing Rules Must Be Followed 2008 Busted Some Old Truths in Corn Production Transparency in Markets Bill Passes Committee Acquisition of National Beef by JBS Terminated Another Cabinet Member Withdraws Nomination Obama Administration Refocusing on Resources China Became Largest Pork Importer in History in 2008 No Single Factor Driving Beef Demand Funds Available to Specialty Crop Groups to Improve Competitiveness Carefully Calculate Your 2009 Crop Insurance Needs Chairman Peterson Introduces Speculation Bill More Farmers Choosing Biotech Crops Major Agreements Made to Stimulus Package Second PCA Plant Closed Nominees Sought for Abraham Lincoln National Agricultural Awards Senate Passes Stimulus Bill Vilsack Supports Single Food Safety Agency Iowa Ranks #2 in Wind Energy, Surpassing California 'River of Milk' Mural Installed at Iowa State Dairy Farm Livestock and Dairy Prices Down in USDA Report CAFTA-DR Improving Trade Numbers FAQ: USDA extends comment period on payment limit rules New Disc Chisel from Landoll Senate Ends Stimulus Debate February USDA Reports Drawing A Lot of Interest New Funds Available for Renewable Energy Projects Raising Livestock Responsibly Is Right Thing to Do Senators Ask Ag Secretary to Implement AGI and Payment Limit Reforms Vilsack Says Expect Change Check Bins Now--Make Decisions About Stored Corn Iowa Corn-Charged Truck Up for Grabs Global Grain Market Important to U.S. Farmers VeraSun Seeks Authority to Sell Assets Pork Serves Up Affordable Mealtime Solutions Corn after Beans Yields More than Corn after Corn - True or False? EPA Reopens California Greenhouse Emissions Decision Agriculture Projections to be Released NFU Wants Economic Review Global Award for Cooperative Excellence Challenges Facing the Pork Industry Gardiner Angus Ranch Launches Educational Internet Video Series Beef Industry Announces Awards TTX Series Complete Donation Helps Close Gap On Iowa FFA Enrichment Center Fund Raising Census Of Agriculture Results Now Available USDA Moves Against PCA Senate Holds Food Safety Hearing Specialization in Livestock Projection Continues Iowa Included In USDA's Planting Transferability Project Even in Tough Year, Renewable Fuels Power Iowa Economy Diversity a Major Point in Ag Census Data Iowa USDA Labs Are Being Investigated Winter Wheat Condition Runs the Gamut EU Critical of ACRE Program Ag Census Shows Number of Farms Increases, But So Does Concentration Agco Causes Explosion in the Georgia Dome! Stimulus Includes Funding for USDA Modernization and Biofuels Money in the PIPE Guiding Principles for Biodiesel Sustainability Unveiled Bill to Address Merger Problems Introduced House Holds Hearing on Market Transparency Bill Grain Indemnity Fund Begins To Pay Some VeraSun Claims Eyes Are On South America As Crops Dry Up New Farm Bill Enhances Beginning Farmer Provisions Cattle Sellers Recoup Money Owed To Them By Postville Plant New Cattle Trends You Must Know Payments Made to Producers Holding Bad Claims FSA Conducting Lamb Referendum CCC Rates Announced for February Vermeer Founder Passes Away at Age 90 Drop in milk prices USDA Offering Grants to Assist Value-Added Ag Projects Bill Introduced to Close Hedge Fund Loophole Grants Will Help Socially Disadvantaged Carolinians Named National Stewards Gregg on Short List for Commerce Secretary Negotiations with JBS Swift May Take a While Sort Through Mixed Signals on Planting Date Merial Surehealth Limited Warranty Updated Nufarm Expands Glyphosate Portfolio with Continued Innovation VeraSun Meets With Farmers Watch Feb. 2 Webcast to Learn About USDA's New ACRE Program USDA to Measure Economic State of U.S. Agriculture Learn to Grow Your Own Fuel Feb 3 at Power Farming Show Look Further Ahead, Be Happy Massive Peanut Butter Products Recall Announced Who Owns DNA Test Data? EPA Approves Plant Health Label for Fungicide National Pork Board to Meet in North Carolina Farmers, Motor Vehicle Operators Top Iowa Worker Deaths Strategies to Manage Feed and Market Price Risk Spring Deworming the Best Legislation Introduced to Stop FMD at the Border Partial Support Payments Coming Soon Sale and Disposal Rules Delayed Partnership will Clean Up Illinois River Watershed No Change to Interest Rates Retroactive Rangeland Carbon Credits Deadline is Friday Funding Needed for Lock and Dam Upgrade Brazil Authorizes HERCULEX I Corn FAQ: FSA is collecting additional financial information Dry Manure Applicator Certificate Workshops Scheduled Iowa Cattlemen's Auction Generates Scholarship Funds Speculation on New Head for FSIS WTO Official Speaks Out Grassley's Wind Energy Proposals Rejected DFA Assumes Responsibilities Of Cal-West Dairymen, Inc. Senate Finance Takes Up Stimulus Package New USDA Conservation Program Announced Be Aware of Crop Insurance Changes for 2009 Vilsack Holds First Press Conference Federal Crop Insurance Clarification Sought U.S. Meat Exports Holding Up AccuBoom Remote Section Control 2009 Cattle Industry Annual Convention in Phoenix More Protectionism Possible, Policy Expert Predicts NMPF Urges Congress, Obama Administration to Focus Immediately on Dairy Crisis Manure a Costly Option for Dairy's Uncertain Future Dairy Cow Numbers Trend Downward In 2009 QUINTEC Fungicide Now Labeled for Use in Peppers Dairy Industry Prepares to Visit Colorado for 2009 Similar Population Study Finds Different Results FAQ: ACRE offers new risk-management option President Meets With Congressional Leaders Groups Ask for Free Trade with Cuba NFU Wants All Factors of Trade Addressed Biofuels Cleaner Than Earlier Studies Showed Irrigators Could Benefit From Satellite Information Harkin Has Some Reservations About CFTC Nominee "Snapshot Survey" of Farmers Reveals Optimism Iowa Farm Groups Push Their Legislative Agendas Plan To Attend Iowa Power Farming Show Feb. 3-5 Vilsack Selects Chief of Staff Beware of Contagious Equine Metritis Blame Wheat Prices, Not Corn NCBA Opposes Dairy Buyout in Stimulus Package Ag Committee Power Shifts to Plains Farm Bureau Wants Internet, Roads and Rivers Funded Beginning Farmers Conference Feb. 7 at Ames Iowan Named to Head AFB's Federal Deficit Task Force Bill Would Defer Estate Tax on Family Farms Trimble Unleashes Major Product Array 2009 National Pork Industry Forum U.S. Soybean Exports Still High R-CALF USA Worried by Peru FTA Obama Administration to Review Country-Of-Origin Regulations Confirmation Delayed for Environmental Appointments House Wants to Meet with Obama on Stimulus Package Ethanol Pofitability Calculator Developed by ISU POET Pilot Plant Now Producing Cellulosic Ethanol Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey Mailed Vilsack Confirmed as Secretary of Agriculture Ethanol Plants for Sale Stimulus to Give USDA $250 Million for Upgrade World Wheat Numbers Have Turned Around Iowa Farmers Invest Millions in New Grain Storage Corn Starch Breakthrough at ISU FAQ: Is USDA going to use higher prices as base for farm bill revenue payments. NPPC Files Suit Against EPA FSA Announces Crop Disaster Sign Up USTR Talks Trade, Doha Culver Proposes $700 Million Rebuilding Plan Iowa Power Fund Receives Recognition from EPA Interior Drafts Offshore Oil Drilling Plan FAQ: For USDA farm program participation, just who is a "producer"? Better Corn Stands Mean More Bushels President Implements Peru TPA Argentina Increasing Grain Beef Herd Loan Guarantee Approved for Commercial Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Signup for Conservation Innovation Grants Announced Iowans Credit Improved Hybrids For 2008 Crop Results Iowa Legislature Begins 2009 Session Managing Through A Recession—Options For Farmers COOL Challenges Likely Canada Puts Hold on WTO Complaint Against U.S. EU Rejects U.S. Move on Trade Environmental Quality Incentives Program Amended DuPont and Athenix Collaborate to Advance Insect Control EPA, USDA Should Do Better Job Monitoring Nutrient Runoff Iowa Study Shows Trends in Farmland Ownership FAQ: Direct attribution rule changes payment limits First Seed Treatment Nematicide Receives Registration for Use on Corn National Pork Board Names 2009 Celebrated Chefs Hurt Says Livestock Producers Will Continue To Hurt In 2009 Hurt Says Livestock Producers Will Continue To Hurt In 2009 Hurt Says Livestock Producers Will Continue To Hurt In 2009 Iowa Directory Lists Native Seeds for Restoration and Conservation Farm Credit Announces Board Election Results National Ag Day Essay Contest Call For Entries Europe Must Eventually Accept Biotech Farm Bureau Delegates Set Policy Vilsack Faces Senate Ag Committee ASA Submits Policy Priorities Hay Expo Returns to Wisconsin NPPC Supports Changes To Animal ID System Decision to Place Biosecurity Lab At K-State Is Final Farming the Health Benefits from Soybeans Cattlemen name Schooley to ICA Hall of Fame Coalition of Organizations Backs Increased Funding of Agriculture Clean Energy Renewable Fuels Association Provides Outlook for Ethanol in 2009 Today's Rural Americans Aren't as Fit as Urban Americans BASF Plant Science Signs Up Two Brands to Market Corn Hybrids With NutriDense Mixed Reactions to COOL Regulations Secretary of Agriculture Reflects on His Tenure Ag Making Progress in Reducing Environmental Impact Economist Sees Another Year of Struggle for Livestock Producers Final Rule for COOL Published Food Industry Eagerly Awaits New High-Oleic Soybean Trait Fruit and Vegetable Growers to Meet Jan. 29-31 USB Chairman Comments on Checkoff Investigation Economist Sees Lower Crop Prices in 2009 AutoFarm Introduces OnTrac2 GPS Assisted Steering System USSF Responds to ASA Press Release All Things Considered, Ag Sector in Good Shape Corn Checkoff Offers Value-Added Grants for Market Development Courses for Beekeepers Being Held Across Iowa American Farm Bureau Ready to Work With New Administration Grain Exports Face Challenges In 2009 Biodiesel Capable of Meeting RFS Shortfall VeraSun Energy Shuts Three Plants How Will Soybean Checkoff Flap Affect Iowa? IronPlanet Announces First European Online Auction New Soybean Organization Formed Ag Secretary Summarizes Administration Accomplishments 2009 Iowa Pork Congress Set for Jan. 28-29 Hot Button Issues on Agenda for Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit Dairy Farmers' Dilemma High Interest in January USDA Report Obama Looking for New Commerce Candidate Schafer Signs Final Rule for COOL Farmers Find More Profit Potential in Food-Grade Soybeans Lessons Learned From 2008 Corn Growing Season USDA Recommend Audit of Soybean Checkoff NAWG Surveying Producers on Biotech Traits Save the Family Farm and Ranch Act Introduced Obama Stimulus Package Being Promoted Monsanto Outlines Development Pipeline Weather Channel and Monsanto Launch Farmer-oriented Service Carroll County Grazier Wins Spencer Award Iowa Soybean Association Kicks Off 45th Anniversary Cattle Importers Waiting on Mexico NCGA Wants Doha Movement Crop Insurance Industry Prepares For More Scrutiny 2008 Was Iowa's Fourth Wettest Year on Record Iowa Crop Variety Performance Test Results Available World Economy Will Play Major Role in Agriculture Vilsack Confirmation Hearing Set More U.S. Farmers May Plant Soybeans NCBA Names New CEO FAQ: Farm Bill Implementation Announced by USDA Farm Credit Grants $20,000 to Annie's Project Milk Income Loss Contract Program Signup Underway NCBA Names New CEO NCBA Names New CEO Mexico Wants to Change Shipments of U.S. Beef Mexico Wants to Change Shipments of U.S. Beef Connor Named to Head NCFC Mexico Wants to Change Shipments of U.S. Beef Movie 'King Corn' To Debut In Des Moines ISU Has Latest Word on Odor Control Iowa Climate Change Advisory Council Issues Final Report Group Criticizes EQIP Program Non-Organic Fertilizer Made it Into Foods Dry Weather Hits Southern Brazil Hog and Pig Inventory Down Former USB Chairmen Speak Out ISU's Walt Fehr Honored by Iowa Soybean Association Soy Transportation Coalition Reelects All Officers Pioneer Makes Acquisition to Enhance Information Solutions for Growers Bee Losses May Have Single Cause Upper Illinois Rivers Locks Still Closed Nitrogen Rate Study Held True to Form Iowa's Energy Plan Says "Think Beyond Corn" Iowa Cattlemen's Annual Convention Is January 6-7 China Sets Export Quota Limit Mexico Lifts Meat Import Restrictions for Some Plants How Much Grain do You Give Away? Premise Registration Requirement Cancelled Comment Now on Changes Proposed for Iowa Bee Rule Iowa Corn Growers Announce 2009 Crop Fair Schedule Top Soybean Yields Goes Beyond Plots USDA Scholars Program Open for 2009 Academic Year Could Two Major Grain Groups Merge? VeraSun Lender Seeks to Regain Lien ISU Vet Med Students Excel In Animal Welfare Judging Farm Bill Decision Is Good News for Iowa Corn Producers Winter Weather Stressing Livestock Grassley Against Russian Admittance to WTO Ports Association Wants Part of Recovery Package What Demand Exists for Soybeans in 2009? Organic Cotton Acres on the Rise Certain Farm Bill Provisions Support Organic Agriculture European Union Seeks Consultations on Hormone-Treated Beef ASA Sees ACRE Program as Positive Acting Undersecretary of Rural Development Named FAQ: How will USDA Treat Flexible Leases for Cropland? Higher Costs Unfold as Dairy Tech is Removed Beef Sector Sees Lower Returns and Margins Despite Smaller Inventories Last Month's Milk Production Forecast Lowered Bayer CropScience Continues Growing Strong Program Growers Get More Answers on VeraSun Milk Production Numbers Lowered EPA Partnership Issues Grant Applications Gates Foundation Supports School Meals Abroad Interim Final Rule Issued by USDA on 2009 Payment Limits Maquoketa Team Is 2008 Beef Scholarship Extravaganza Champion IRFA Elects Officers And Executive Committee for 2009 FAQ: What can I do ahead of final ACRE rules? Lower Cattle Numbers are Not Producing Higher Prices ACRE Program Details Finally Announced Signups Begin for Farm Programs Korea Buying U.S. Corn Iowa Farm Groups Comment On Vilsack Nomination Have a Plan for Winter Power Outages U.S. Pork Exports Defy Expectations Tips To Help You Survive Winter Ice And Snow Storms Strong Cheese Exports, Slow Domestic Sales Dairy Cattle: November Milk Production Up 1.4 % Plant Sales Could Allow JBS Transaction Another WTO complaint Over COOL Gets Filed Another WTO complaint Over COOL Gets Filed Another WTO complaint Over COOL Gets Filed USMEF Says October Numbers Continue to Show Progress Milk Income Loss Contract Program Signup Announced U.S. Oil Consumption to Flatten Mexico Files WTO Complaint Over COOL Court Proceedings on Hold USDA Announces New Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets Quality of Life Is High for Iowa Farm Families Plan to Attend a Crop Advantage Meeting - Coming Soon Pork Infuses International Flavor into Holiday Celebrations Senator Calls for Next Step in Vietnamese Importation of U.S. Beef Obama Officially Names Vilsack as Nominee for Ag Secretary Wheat Crop Estimate Cut in Argentina Manure Applicator Workshops Scheduled for 2009 Two Iowa Soybean Growers Named to Help Lead National Groups Food for Progress Assistance Announced Baucus Presses Vietnam on U.S. Beef Imports New NCBA Leader Announcement Soon Vilsack to Be Named Ag Secretary Missouri Lawmaker to Propose Decriminalizing Margarine USMEF Says October Numbers Continue to Show Progress USMEF Says October Numbers Continue to Show Progress Lessons Iowans Learned from Floods of 2008 Northern Iowa Community Wind Project Announced Revised Net Cash Income Numbers Still Record Meat Export Numbers Very Positive for Pork and Beef Producers Climate Change Could Cripple Agriculture New IRON Search Equipment Section Now in the Hands of Over 54,000 Wallaces Farmer Subscribers ISU Survey Shows Land Value Growth Is Slowing Down Ag Initiatives Fit Obama's Stimulus Plans New PCVAD Article Focuses on Disease Surveillance Dairy Group, Ex-Execs to Pay Corn Growers Support FFV Requirements in Detroit Bailout Bill Grants Available to Iowa Enhance Iowa Hog Industry Dorr Sees Challenges and Opportunities Ahead for Rural America Smooth Transition Occurring from Old Administration to New President-elect Makes Key Energy Nominations Uncertainty Remains on Possible Audit of Soybean Checkoff Groups Propose Farm-Based Energy as Key to Stimulus Package FAQ: Lease Arrangements and ACRE ISA Comments on Call for Probe of Soybean Checkoff VeraSun Wants to Keep Three Iowa Plants Running EPA Gives Livestock Producers Exemption No WTO Meetings This Year Increased December Chinese Imports Argentine Wheat Yields Down Iowa Land Value Survey Results To Be Released Dec. 16 Buhler Resurrects Versatile Name and Logo National FFA Announces Plans for Future Conventions Inspector General Completes Slaughter Investigation FAQ: Is ACRE a year-to-year decision? Education Efforts Create Export Opportunities in Middle East Obama's Energy Team Being Readied Major Increase in Farm Product Sales to Iraq National Change in Weather Pattern DuPont Unveils New Strategy to Expand Its Seed Business Farmers Will Cut Corn Plantings in Favor of Soybeans in 2009 It's Official: Liberty Link Beans Coming in 2009 FAQ: Getting ready for ACRE in 2009 Know Your Dairy Cattle Farm Feed Costs TB Confirmed in North Dakota Cow Peril Continues For VeraSun Corn Suppliers New House Agriculture Ranking Member Opposes CFTC Merger Overall Winter Wheat Condition is Good USB Responds to Allegations IOG Says Hallmark/Westland Was Isolated Incident Spring Crop Insurance Deadline Nears Auction of Surplus Dry Milk Delayed Beef Checkoff Could Increase Beef Checkoff Could Increase Soybean Association Calls for Checkoff Investigation Beef Checkoff Could Increase Markets Waiting for USDA Crop Reports TB Confirmed in North Dakota Cow TB Confirmed in North Dakota Cow Hallmark Westland Investigation Completed Culver Wants Congress to Enable Transmission of Wind-Generated Power Contract Status Still Uncertain for VeraSun Corn Suppliers General Economy Will Affect 2008-2009 Crop Prices See Attorney Before Cashing VeraSun Corn Checks GAO Issues Report on Agency Coordination Committee Working on Food Program Reauthorization New Papers on WTO Doha Talks Issued China and U.S. Agree on Need to Curb Trade Protectionism European Union Approves Import of Roundup Ready 2 Soybeans Monsanto Launches Initiative to Improve Water Quality in Mississippi River Basin Knight Visiting Argentina Farmers Can Get Credit, But Other Challenges Remain Promoting Increased Biofuel Production Globally Seed Pricing Stories Run Rampant Farmers Will Face Even More Challenges in 2009 Collaboration Results In Safer, Wiser Pesticide Use Corn Growers Are Heard In VeraSun Bankruptcy Proceedings ISU Seed Science Program Not Offered Anywhere Else Biodiesel Promotion Grants Available to Schools Biomass Feedstock Report Released VeraSun Receives Final Bankruptcy Court Approval Argentina Won't End Farm Export Limits Ethanol Co-Product Granted Entrance to Australia Report Outlines Agriculture Challenges for the Next 30 Years ECO-heater Warms Room for Less Homeland Security Selects Kansas for National Bio and Agro Defense Lab Kohl's '09 Outlook: Both Boom and Bust Are Possible USDA Slashes Export Forecast Several Factions Oppose December WTO Meeting Senate Agriculture Ranking Member Wins Runoff Manhattan Wins Bid for Bio-Agro Defense Facility Former House Ag Committee Member Says USDA Restructuring Inevitable USDA Seeks Public Comments on Deregulation of GMO Corn U.S. and China Meeting to Discuss Economy Iowa Co-op Partners in Story County Wind Energy Center Higher Yielding Varieties of Low-lin Beans Available VeraSun Cancels U.S. BioEnergy Corn Contracts Lawrence Named to USDA Advisory Committee EPIC Joins Growth Energy to Help Speak Up for Ethanol Lamy Stresses Need for Aid and Trade FDA Reports Progress in Protecting Food Supply Agriculture at the Forefront of 2009 Commodity Rebound Canada Moving Towards WTO Challenge Over COOL Pilgrim's Pride Files for Chapter 11 Protection Gate Closes on 'Cow and Sow Tax' Comments Public Meetings on Bovine Tuberculosis Scheduled Federal Agencies Set Energy Corridors Economy is Wild Card in Beef Cattle Price Forecasts Economy is Wild Card in Beef Cattle Price Forecasts Iowa Grain Indemnity Board Clarifies Coverage You Need to Aerate Stored Grain Now Light Up the Night Economy is Wild Card in Beef Cattle Price Forecasts Culver To Extend Harvest Weight Limit Exemption ICGA Urges Iowans To Show Support For American-made Ethanol Sukup Is Renew Rural Iowa Entrepreneur of the Month Iowa Learning Farm Offers New Videos Lame Duck Session Continues Next Monday New Videos Added to Consumer Education Series on YouTube Push Being Made for Change in Trade Policy with Cuba President Bush Pardons Turkey Help Available for Turkey Preparation Questions Collapse in Fertilizer Prices Cause Loss for The Andersons New Link Connects Farmers, Marketers and Consumers The Biofuels Boom - Will It Last? Does It Pay to Use Fungicides to Control Foliar Diseases of Soybeans? More Families Face Challenge of Farming Together Farmers Will Be Affected By Tax Changes Group Challenging VeraSun's Corn Contract Procedures GAO Report Questions Farm Payments South Korean Retailers Resuming U.S. Beef Sales South Korean Retailers Resuming U.S. Beef Sales South Korean Retailers Resuming U.S. Beef Sales ICGA Backs Grower Challenge to VeraSun Bankruptcy Terms Interest in Buying VeraSun Iowa Farm Bureau Annual Meeting Is December 3-5 Focus on Ways to Prevent Future Flooding Slow Start to Harvest Leads to Slow End U.S. Meat Production Forecast Lowered Food Prices May Finally Be Responding to Market Factors Several Factors Lead to Less U.S. Meat Production Pork Producer Appointed to Iowa Environmental Protection Commission Asoyia Officials Comment on Legislation to Ban Trans Fats Vilsack Says He Will Not Be Next Ag Secretary Evaluate Base Genetics, Not Just Traits More Evidence of Shrinking Beef Industry USDA Report Show Beef Industry Contraction VeraSun Closes Iowa Ethanol Plant, Wants To Void Corn Contracts Farmers File Objection In VeraSun Ethanol Bankruptcy Harkin Looks to Bring Transparency to Futures Market Winter Drought Outlook Mixed Bag of News Rains Expected to Downgrade Australian Wheat Crop Farm Groups To Broadcast Free Income Tax Seminar On ICN VeraSun Energy Bankruptcy Poses Perils For Farmers And Elevators You Grow It, We Burn It! VeraSun Reports Substantial Third Quarter Losses FAQ: ACRE Rules and Details FAQ: Yield Information and ACRE FAQ: What is ACRE? FAQ: What Are the New Provisions of the Farm Bill? Renewable Energy Group Gets $740,000 Iowa Power Fund Grant Detailed Iowa Soils Information Now Online Auto Bailout Remains Elusive Lower November Dairy Price Outlook Taiwan Must Drop 'Food Safety' Barriers National Biodiesel Board Elects Leadership Matching Funds Available for Meat Companies to Open International Markets Matching Funds Available for Meat Companies to Open International Markets Matching Funds Available for Meat Companies to Open International Markets Get The Facts On Selling And Buying Manure Fall And Winter Management Of Alfalfa StollerUSA Launches Updated Web Site for Growers and Farmers Schafer Leads Delegation to Brazil for Biofuels Conference Corn and Ethanol Industry Answers Attack Biodiesel Happy About Diesels Role in 2009 RFS EPA Issues Review of Own Agency Dairy Price Forecasts Have Dropped VeraSun Refuses to Honor Contract Prices for Corn WTO Chair Pushing for Quick Movement USDA to Determine If Producers Want Pork Checkoff Vote Bayer CropScience Offers Poncho 500 Rebate to Growers Coalition Calls for End to Ethanol Subsidie Concentration in Ethanol Industry Focus of Trade Commission Report Corn Harvest Delays Continue Tolman Calls for Food Price Cut Farmers Not Paid By VeraSun For Corn Should Contact IDALS Soybean Cyst Nematode Management Field Guide Available Kuhn Offers New Shredders Another Canadian Case of BSE is Found Another Canadian Case of BSE is Found Another Canadian Case of BSE is Found BSE in British Columbia Twin Rows Easier to Harvest Than 15-Inch Rows Schafer Says Progress on Doha is Being Made Colombian Dairy Sector is Big Market for U.S. Grains USMEF Gearing Up for Branding Promotion Lame Duck Session Will Be Held This Week Corn Prices Have Dropped, But Have Your Food Prices? National Organic Ag Expert To Discuss Climate Change Nov. 23 Attend A Crop Marketing Club Meeting Nov. 17-20 Soy Exports Set New Record Researchers Make Breakthrough in Developing Ug99 Resistance Schafer Appoints Dairy Board Members House Lame-Duck Session Doubtful Can't Blame Farm Subsidies for Obesity Problem Manure Applicators Must Meet Training Requirements Before Dec. 31 Dairy Promotion Board Named USDA to Release Funds for Conservation Disaster Assistance USTR Discusses Import Restrictions with EU Schafer Hopes New Administration Can Build on Past Success Iowa Turkey Federation Joins Livestock Coalition Nominate Someone for Renewable Fuels Marketing Award Poll Says Biofuels are Most Accepted Method to Achieve Energy Independence Stored Beans With Mixed Moisture Need to Be Aerated Annual Iowa Organic Ag Conference Is Nov. 24 New Ethanol Coalition Goes After Big Food Red States Turning Blue? Canada Trying to Regain Beef Access to Korea List of Top 100 Cooperatives Released Try These Welding Projects Iowa Corn Harvest 62% Complete National Pork Board to Complete 2009 Strategic Plan and Budget Soybean Harvest Nearly Complete, Corn Continues to Lag Winter Wheat Planting is on Target Corn Breakage Increases With More Grain Drying How Low Could Corn Prices Go? Same Hybrid Under Different Conditions Looks Different World Trade Talks Need New Approach Ethanol Positions Affected Rural Vote in Presidential Election What Does Obama Win Mean for Iowa Agriculture? New Amendments in Place for 2008 Farm Bill Beef Exports are Increasing UK Pushes for Origin Labeling Deadline For Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program Approaching Bankruptcy Raises Questions About Protection For Farmers Selling Grain Kubota Offers Gasoline RTV500 USDA Crop Report Comes out Monday Lower Harvest Prices Trigger Crop Revenue Insurance Payments 'Farm to School' Program Making Apples Available Secretary Makes Board Appointments USDA Transition to New Administration Underway Wetter Corn Requires Better Storage Management USDA to Hold Value-Added Producer Grant Meetings Repeat of 1980 Farm Crisis Unlikely Government Slashes Australian Wheat Estimate Rural Development Head Resigns Big Red Takes on the SxS Market Californians Pass Measure that Limits Livestock Confinement ISU Faculty Appointed to National Air Quality Task Force Field Molds Are a Corn Quality Issue This Year Farm Groups Assess Top Issues For Obama, New Congress Winter Hitting Dakotas, Bringing Wet Weather to Midwest Rural Housing Loans Outperforming Economy VeraSun Delays Opening of Plant Scientists Ask for EPA Rulemaking Delay Iowa Corn Harvest Remains Moist And Late VeraSun Energy Gets Finance Help Corn Harvest and Development Lagging Behind USTR Seeking Comment on EU Beef Hormones Dispute Favorable Weather Allows Start of Aussie Wheat Harvest VeraSun Says It Will Continue Operating Iowa Facilities Weather Summary For 2008 Growing Season USDA Announces New Administrators New Requirements For Controlling Manure, Wastewater From Large CAFOs McCain Farm & Ranch Committee Call Obama Out Over Statements ISU Agriculture And Life Sciences Alums Honored Moisture And Test Weight Are Corn Quality Issues In 2008 Harvest Reveals Surprises in Plots Ethanol Maker Declares Bankruptcy Trimble Acquires Tru Count Assets Council Created to Energize New Generation of Beef Industry Leaders Become a Master of Beef Advocacy Veal Retail Marketing Initiative Launching This Fall Rachel Ray Readers Respond to Pork Ad 2008 Pork Environmental Stewards Named NCBA Endorses None of the Above Big Push to Defeat Prop 2 EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules Expected USDA Announces Early Details of their Annual Outlook Seminar Choose Wisely When Making Soil Fertility Decisions Charges Filed Against Farm Employees in Hog Abuse Case Buhler Resurrects Versatile Tractor Brand Iowa On-Farm Research and Demonstration Grants Available for 2009 More Livestock Producers Need to Get a Permit Will Interest Rate Cut Help Farm Borrowers? Will Farmers Plant More Corn or More Beans Next Spring? Pork Promotion Was the Name of the Game in October Ethanol Has Advantage over Gasoline Environmentally and Economically Lamy Says Opening Trade is Healthy Vermeer Has "Cornstalk Special" Harvest Less Corn Residue to Maintain Soil Productivity Organic Oilseed Firm Name Rural Iowa Entrepreneur of the Month Sound Ag Policy Vital In 2008 Presidential Race USDA Revises Crop Production Estimates Lower New Draper Platform from Deere Goal Of Reducing Size Of "Dead Zone" Likely Won't Be Met Schafer Clarifies Rural Business Loan Guarantee Farm Credit Available, More Strings Attached Cast Releases New Commentary Evaluating Biodiesel Production Winter Wheat Ratings Released Genetics Provide Evidence for Virus Movement Via Migratory Birds Do Your Fields Need Conservation Repairs? New and Different Products Buck the Economic Trend Food and Fuel Forum Tackles Tough Issues CWT Announces Second Buyout This Year MGEX Board Recommends Trading Exclusively Electronically GIPSA Rules Affect Swine Contractors Iowa Farmers' Efforts Are Honored With Gulf Guardian Award ICGA Provides Calculators to Assess ACRE Program Precision Maps Can Reveal What Happened After the Fact Dairy Export Council Updates Web Site Dairy Safety Focus Of New Publication Ukraine Harvests Nearly 50 Million Tons of Grain Corn Disease Publication Updated and Available for Iowa Beef Center Announces "Iowa's Next Top Inventor" Competition Rust Reaches Corn Belt Big Three Packers Pledge to be COOL USDA Awards Electric Loans USDA Flunks Another Test On Civil Rights New Manure Nutrient Management Guide for Iowa On-Farm Research Conference Focuses on How to Get Good Data Schafer Makes Up Mind on ACRE Base Years Meat Production will Decline in 2009 Proposed USDA Bailout for Ethanol Brings Livestock Protest NCBA Accepting Applications for CEO Position Kuhn Has New Power Harrows Charges Filed in Iowa Hog Abuse Case Freeze Won't Affect Crops, Precipitation Slowing Harvest Some Argentine Wheat Helped By Rain Mexico Still Biggest Market for Distillers Grains Watch Soil Temperature for Nitrogen Application Ethanol Co-Products Dramatically Extend Corn Supplies U.S. Seed Industry Suspends Market Choices Certification Biofuels Are Best Option to Harness Solar Energy Farmetrics Seeks to Lower Ag Risks Positive Reactions Pour in on Justice Suit Against Packer Acquisition Too Many Plants Cuts Yields Rains Come to Argentina as Planting Season Begins Analysts Predicting Bigger Drop in Australian Wheat Crop Justice Department Files Suit to Block Beef Packing Merger McCormick Completes TTX Series With Third and Most Powerful Model Iowa Soybean Association Responds to Hunger ISU Economist Looks at 2008 Crop Production, Price Outlook Deere Offers 5D-5M Series Utility Tractors Grain Contract Schemes Occurring In Midwest Ground Beef Recall Announced Renewable Energy Will Help Economy to Recover Corn Growers Unveils Benefit Analysis Calculator Beef's Premium Depends on Quality Fertilizer Dealers Agree To Fall Nitrogen Code of Practice Register Now For 2008 ICM Crop Conference At Ames WTO Issues Ruling on Hormone Beef Ban No Hope for Doha Deal This Year World Wheat Production is Rebounding Make the Right Tillage Decisions This Fall USDA to Collect, Publish County-Level Data on Land Rental Rates Biotech Helping U.S. Farmers Satisfy Global Demand Ag Exports May Surpass Expectations CSREES Awards $2.2 Million for National AgrAbility Project Soybean Farmers Renew Challenge to End Hunger And Malnutrition News From ISU's Leopold Center for Sustainable Ag Record Number of Employers to Recruit at ISU Ag Career Day High Protein Breakfast May Help Dieters POET Gets Money for Iowa Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Checkoff Report Shows Benefits of Animal Agriculture Corn Belt Misses Storms, Leaving Corn in Good Shape New Biodiesel Blend Specifications Published Australian Farmer Selected For Kleckner Award Siemens and USDA/ARS Partner in Second Generation Biofuels World Bank/IMF Zero In On Food Crisis Raising of Animals Focus of Two Events Economic Downturn Does Have Silver Lining for Farmers Australian Wheat Crop Forecast Reduced Farmers Respond To USDA Raising Harvest Estimates Sensible, Thoughtful Policy on Biofuels Needed Silver Linings in Doom 'n Gloom Clouds Cash Rental Surveys Being Sent Out More Wetlands Incentives Available Ag Committees Schedule Hearing on Nation's Financial Mess Fall Frost Can Affect Forage Toxicity for Animals World Food Prize Symposium Taking Place in Des Moines Every Field Deserves the 'Push' Test Document Crop Losses, Prove Your Yield This Fall How Fast Can You Expect Corn To Dry Down? Trading Music for Oil Pork Partners With Soybean Council What's Covered, What's Not by Iowa Grain Indemnity Fund New Blender Dispenser Pumps for Ethanol Open in Iowa Presidential Candidates Look to Rural Areas Europeans Have Negative Attitude toward Cloned Animals as Food Schafer Addresses Globalization at the AgExecutive Forum U.S. Pork Industry will be Observed by Chinese Delegation Amity Launches Air Till Drill Wet Weather on Way for Parts of Midwest Grain Safety Means Avoiding the Grain Flow Hunger Summit to Focus on Iowans' Efforts to Combat Hunger Combating Invasive Pests Gets Nearly $1 Million USDA Awards More Than $28 Million in Specialty Crop Research USDA Proposes Biotech Rule Changes McCain-Palin Announce Rural Team National Biofuels Action Plan Unveiled Soybean Growers Ask USDA for Help Funding Soybean Rust Monitoring Decide Between Grain and Forage for Late Maturing Corn Harvest Late Maturing Soybeans for Grain or Forage? Iowa Farm Bureau Supports Credit Rescue Package Iowa Has Already Harvested Nearly 40% Of Bean Crop Egg Producers File Requests Alleging Humane Society Secretly Taped Calls Midwest Harvest Lags Behind Normal Pace Commerce Secretary Travels to Brazil for Trade Talks Balchem Introduces Rumen-Protected Lysine USDA Provides Incentive for Public Access to CRP Some Hybrids Like it Thick, Some Don't! How High Fuel Prices Affect Corn Prices Check Bean Seed Quality at Harvest Rotella T Goes Synthetic Chicken Industry to Consolidate Around Multi-Protein Model Iowa Approves 2008 Harvest Weight Limit Exemption When Will Killing Frost Hit Most Of Iowa? House Passes Bailout Package Value Cuts Promoted in Mexico How Do You Value Immature Grain Crops Harvested As Forage? Iowa Leader Pushes for Biodiesel Tax Credit Extension Favorable Weather Being Seen in South America Lack of Funding Forces Databank Closure Senate Sends Bailout Bill to House U.S. Positioned to Be Leading Biodiesel Market Soy Coalition Says Transportation Issues Need Fixing Tips on Managing Alfalfa Fields This Fall New St. Louis Facility Doubles Urea Capacity Farmer Mac Raises $65 Million in Capital Farm Credit Still Rock-Solid USDA Gives Disaster Declaration for 90 Iowa Counties Minimize Corn, Soybean Harvesting Losses Bill to Change Beef Checkoff Brought to Senate COOL for Meat Finally Enacted Frost is Flirting with Upper Midwest USDA Funding Overseas Promotion Dow AgriSciences Acquiring Another Seed Company Harvest 2008 Underway Statewide In Iowa Intern Opportunities With Pork Board Bumper Apple Crop This Year in Iowa Iowans "Crop Up" in National Leadership Roles We Test Miller's Renegade 180 Failed Bailout Drops Stocks for Agribusiness Companies Senate Passes Farm Bill Fix Hog Losses to Persist China Dairy Scandal Reaches United States Lessons Abound in Corn Field Before Harvest Tentative Deal Reached on Bailout Package Charge It - Two at a Time Iowa Farm Lenders Remain in Good Shape Scout Cornfields for Stalk and Ear Rots Tensions Continue to Run High in Argentina Tuesday is Important Deadline Date Packers Want "North American" Label for COOL Crisis Hikes Farmers' Costs, But Sector Is Strong Insurance Deadline For Fall-Seeded Crops Is Sept. 30 SATURDAY WEB TIP: Click on a Tab for In-Depth Information Presidential Candidates Answer Ag Questions National Cattlemen's Beef Association CEO Resigns Cargill Endows ISU Program to Accelerate Biorenewables Asoyia Receives $300,000 USDA Grant Schafer Announces New Head of Food Safety Stokes Resigns as National Cattlemen's Beef Association CEO Chance of Frost May Increase Next Week Europe Has Tremendous Potential as Market for Grain Sorghum Lincoln Electric Unveils Ranger 225 GXT Power Krawler Offers High Traction, Low Compaction Hogs and Pigs Report Preview House Approves 10-acre Rule Amendment Senate Hearing on Keenum Nomination to Farm Credit Administration Corn Exports Post Near-Record in 2007-08 Marketing Year "Good Neighbor Guide" Helps Livestock Farmers House Committee Attacks Air Emissions Exemption For CAFO Biodiesel Tax Credit Extended by Senate Financial 'Melt-down' Impacts Grain Pastures and Forage Benefit from Heavy Rains Crop Insurance Deadline Looms Paulson Says Decisive Action is Needed Iowa Announces $3.5 Million for Nine Water Quality Projects Farm Machinery Can Crush You! Precise Fueling for 4X4 Feed Industry Leaders Speak with Obama Advisers Nearly 25% Of Iowa Corn Now Safe From Frost Corn Crop is Downgraded Cattle UltraSound Business Wins Rural Iowa Award New Poll Shows McCain Leads With Rural Voters Ethanol Commercials Released Nationwide Cattle Inventories Are Shrinking Speculation Limiting Bill Approved in House House Ag Committee Tries 10-Acre Rule Fix Early-season Problems Show Up in Late-Season Stand Counts Field Days Explore Sugarbeets, Switchgrass for Alternative Energy Growing Marketplace Seeks ISU Ag Business Majors Pequea/Deere Agreement to Boost Frontier Brand Montana Loses Brucellosis-Free Status SATURDAY WEB TIP: Be on Alert What Is Needed To Maximize This Year's Corn Crop Weather Still Threatens Soybean Crop & Quality Truckers and Exporters Sign Agreement Plain Predicts Higher Placements Trade Mission Heads to Central America Next Week Farm Safety and Health Week Sept. 21-27 Iowa Power Fund OKs Key Grant for Cellulosic Ethanol FDA Issues Draft Guides on Regulating Genetically Engineered Animals Current Weather Should Calm Freeze Fears USDA Purchases Tomatoes Horse Bill Considered but Not Voted On Make Weed Management Decisions Now Are You Interested in Transitioning to Organic? Livestock Farmers Condemn Abuse At Iowa Hog Farm Iowa Farmland Values Increase Again Farm Progress Magazine Group to Feature IRONsearch.com Equipment Sections Time to Participate in 2008 Grain Quality Analysis Program New Process Improves Appearance, Odor of Irradiated Beef Judiciary Committee Set to Vote on Horse Bill Farm Bureau Says EPA Can't Regulate Ag Dust Australian Wheat Harvest Downgraded Slightly Farm Progress Magazine Group to Feature IRONsearch.com Equipment Sections Future of Biofuels Is Uncertain, Say Speakers at ISU Conference Iowa Corn, Bean Crops Still Lagging In Maturity Crops Continue to Lag Behind Normal WTO Talks Continue in Geneva CME Says Clearing Function Protected Fertilizer Companies Face Class Action Lawsuit Over Price Fixing USDA Lowers Production Estimates U.S.-China Trade Talks Scheduled This Week Iowa's 2008 Corn Harvest Estimate Lowered U.S. Soybean Crop Estimate Down Slightly From August A Golf Cart No More! Nitrogen Deficiency Biggest Discovery From Field Walks New Mexico's Cattle TB Status Downgraded SATURDAY WEB TIP: The Power of RSS Who Needs To Sign-up For SURE for 2008? Sept. 16 Deadline For 2008 SURE Disaster Assistance K-State Researchers Find Genetic BSE Cause K-State Researchers Find Genetic BSE Cause K-State Researchers Find Genetic BSE Cause K-State Researchers Find Genetic BSE Cause K-State Researchers Find Genetic BSE Cause USDA Awards Value-Added Grants to Iowans Farmers Union Asks USDA to Extend Buy-in for Disaster Assistance Testimony Highlights Need for Biodiesel Tax Incentive Extension State Departments of Agriculture Ask for Lift of Cuban Restrictions Biodiesel Board CEO Responds to New Report Kentucky Triples The Joy Heed Preharvest Intervals for Insecticide-Treated Soybean Fields Changes in Fertilizer Market Are Impacting Farmers Ike Could Bring Rust to Midwest Wyoming Keeps Brucellosis-Free Status Maple Leaf Identifies 'Likely Cause' Of Bacteria ACRE Meetings Being Held In Iowa House Judiciary to Vote on Horse Bill Bipartisan Group of Senators Rally Around Energy Plan USDA Administrator Talks COOL Cool Weather Limiting Crop Maturity Iowa Restricts Cattle Movement Due to Brucellosis Make Farm-Scale Ethanol from Sorghum Brazil Diary: No Easy Profit In Brazil FSA Deadlines Fast Approaching—September 16 and 30 Diplodia Ear Rot Being Reported in Iowa Corn Crop Condition Shows Stability ACRE Will be Available for 2009 Crops USDA Awards Science and Education Grants Soybean Rust Moving North CME Group Recommends Changes to Wheat Contract Republican Plank Calls for Repeal of Renewable Fuels Standard Sign Up Now for USDA Floodplain Easement Program Active Hurricane Season Continues WTO Meeting Scheduled in Geneva This Week National Farmers Union Hosting Fly-In Farm Progress Corn Fields Have Wider Implications New Power for MF Tractors SATURDAY WEB TIP: Go Mobile No-Till Soybean Production Field Days Next Week Cool Weather Now Doesn't Necessarily Mean Early Frost Ecological Economics Is Topic for Pesek Colloquium Sept. 11 Northwest Iowa Research Farm Marks 50th Birthday USDA Awards Value-Added Grants Canadian Government To Investigate Listeriosis Outbreak Analysis Suggests Higher Food Prices In 2009 And Beyond ISU Experts Discuss New FDA Irradiation Rule Iowa Corn Grower Groups Elect New Officers Assistance Mobilized for Gustav is Prepared for Continuing Storms Pork Board Names New CEO Republican Platform Calls for End to Ethanol Mandates Moly's New Hydraulic Chute Iowa Crops Beginning To Mature Dry Conditions Cause for Concern for Corn and Soybeans USDA Continues Evaluating CRP Situation Corn Growers' New Policies Aim for More Ethanol Options Livestock Issues to Be Covered at Sept. 8 Field Day Dow Completes Acquisition of Dairyland Seed Co., Bio-Plant Research Ltd. Elanco Announces Location for New Global Headquarters Firm to Give ISU $1 Million to Renovate Curtiss Hall Follow Pre-harvest Restrictions for Fungicides Obama Kicks Off Campaign with Biodiesel Plant Tour Less Meat in 2009 New Auger Options Lower Court Overturns BSE Decision New Virus Invading Honeybees Sudden Death Syndrome Crops Up in Iowa Bean Fields Hybrid Selection for '09 Starts Now SATURDAY WEB TIP: Join the Discussion Farm Bill Is Not Trade Compliant Farm Bill Funding Comes to Iowa Rural Water Systems Four Set Records at Iowa State Fair Livestock Sale Schafer: Renewable Fuel Decision Is "Watershed Moment" For United States Westland Worker to Talk About Supervisors, Owners Farm Bill Renewable Energy Provisions to be Discussed FSIS Requests Comments on COOL Label Approval USDA Announces Proposed Rule for Disposition of Downer Cattle Ag Drainage Is Critical for Efficient Crop Production Eastern Iowa Cattlemen to Host Hereford Tour Dorr Announces $35 Million in Energy Grants and Loans Big Red Takes on the SxS Market Consumers Favor Biodiesel Brazil Seeks Permission to Sanction U.S. Goods over WTO Cotton Case Experts Advise Cover Crops for Flooded Spots Iowans Continue Pushing for Ethanol Pipeline Own the History of John Deere Vets Say Initiative Not In Animals' Best Interests American Ag and Energy Council Announces Formal Organization Sustainability: Produce More, Conserve More New Branding Provides New Seed Performance Technologies to Enhance Genetics and Traits Exclusive Survey Shows Farmers Wary of Increasing Corn Acres Biodiesel Powers 2008 Farm Progress Show Farm Progress Show Features Crop Specialists Public Meeting Scheduled on Farm Bill Renewable Energy Provisions Egypt is Important Partner to U.S. Breakthrough in Producing Hydrogen from Biofuels Omega-3 From Biodiesel Byproduct Don't Miss These Exhibits at Farm Progress Show Take a Closer Look at New ACRE Program Iran Purchases U.S. Wheat U.S. Working to Move Doha Forward Watch Fields Where Common Rust Was Prevalent Feedlot Numbers Continue to Shrink Feedlot Numbers Continue to Shrink USDA Issues Electric Loans Feedlot Numbers Continue to Shrink DFA Adds New Division SATURDAY WEB TIP: Customize to Maximize Why Are Soybean Aphids So Bad This Year? Listen To Experts On Stage At Farm Progress Show Drainage Field Day Set for Sept. 10 at Story City Corn Growers Announce State-Level PAC Awards Look Good Welding for Less Will Argentine Farmers Strike Again? Need for Midwest Ethanol Pipeline Highlighted Monsanto, China Seed Expand Corn Seed Joint Venture Dairy Export Prospects Improve Food, Fuel & Climate: Moving from Debate to Dialogue New Director for Iowa Division of Soil Conservation Researchers Seeking Healthy Honeybees USDA Expands Crop Insurance Premium Reductions Lower Dairy Sales Expected in 2009 Elanco Will Buy Posilac Dow Selects Name for Nitrogen Stabilizer Additional States and Seed Technology Approved for Crop Insurance Premium Reductions Elanco Will Buy Posilac A Web Change is Coming Make Hay Quickly with Windrow Pro Southeast May Benefit from Tropical Storm Asian Soybean Rust Less Prevalent in 2008 Expert Advice for Managing Soybean Cyst Nematode Plan for 2009 Crop Year by Managing Flooded Soils Feinstein Questions Ethanol Tariff Instant BSE Test Being Developed USDA and China Sign Biofuel Agreement New, Multimillion Dollar Site Ready for 2008 Farm Progress Show USDA's 2008 Corn Yield Forecast Is Above Trend Line Crop Conditions Are Steady Argentine Farmers Protest Economic Environment Dairy Farmers Feeling the Squeeze of High Production Costs Dairy Farmers Feeling the Squeeze of High Production Costs Rail Antitrust Exemptions Being Scrutinized Rural Cooperative Development Centers Receive $4.5 Million Canada Confirms Another Case of BSE Field Tours Will Show Biomass Crops Aug. 25 and Aug. 29 Governor's Charity Steer Show Raises $100,550 Thick Corn Holding Its Own With Rain There Will Be Enough Corn To Meet Demand Practical Farmers Of Iowa Holding Field Days Six Biodiesel Companies Earn BQ-9000 Certification Remarkable Numbers for Beef and Pork Exports 'Not Your Father's Tillage' Featured at Farm Progress Show Goss's Wilt Prevalent on Corn in Western Iowa DDGS Pelleting Course May Lead to More U.S. Exports to Japan. Online Dairy Class Offered U.S. Trade Development Has Succeeded in Japan Organic in Year of the Flood Featured at Aug. 20 Field Day Prop 2 Supporters Sue AEB, USDA Iowans Urged to Keep Eye Out for Emerald Ash Borer Scout Now for Downy Mildew and Other Soybean Diseases Food Inflation May Slow Because of Falling Commodity Prices Will Rust Show Up on Late-Planted Beans? Weather Pattern is Predicted to be Neutral WTO Leaders Have Differing Views on Doha Round USDA Issues Clarifications of COOL Interim Rule Tight Corn Supplies Will Continue Next Year Mild Temperatures Help Iowa Crops Crop Insurance Deadline Plays a Role in Farm Bill Disaster Programs Russia is Growing Market for U.S. Beef Practical Farmers Schedule Field Days in Iowa Crops Are Looking Good Know Your Spots - Leaf Diseases On Corn Iowa Leaders Applaud EPA Ruling On RFS Possible E. Coli Contamination Prompts Recall of Ground Beef Dow AgroSciences to Acquire Dairyland Seeds August Report Supplies First NASS Estimates for Corn and Soybeans Fungicide Applied on High-Yield Plots Last Week Brazil Diary: More Grain Buyers in Brazil Soybean Aphid Numbers Have Increased Rapidly 2008 Iowa State Fair Gets A Good Start Dow AgroSciences to Acquire Dairyland Seeds RFS Mandate will Remain in Effect Anhydrous Prices Soar on U.S., International Markets Emergency Grazing Extended Farmland Ownership Stakes Have Never Been Higher Iowa Farm Receives National Stewardship Award Deere Adds to Its Compact Utility Line John Deere Launches New Utility Tractor Lineup EPA Denies RFS Waiver New State NRCS Conservationist for Iowa Soy Transportation Coalition Tours Key Infrastructure Monsanto Plans to Part with Posilac USDA Announces TRQ Increase Bush Talks Free Trade in South Korea Monsanto to Sell POSILAC Farm Futures Survey Shows Crops Recovered From June Floods World Wheat Outlook is Looking Favorable Railroads Want to Quit Hauling Anhydrous Ammonia Hot, Humid Weather Is Helping Crops Mature Senator Harkin Introduces Ethanol Pipeline Bill Web Site to Aid Pork Producers Manage Tough Times CRP Acres Released for Grazing in Drought Disaster Counties Weather Helping Crop Conditions New Online Ticket Order System Offered for Farm Progress Show Haying and Grazing of CRP Battle Not Over Yet Mandatory COOL Shouldn't Affect Consumers Breakthrough on Avian Influenza Research New Iowa Corn Checkoff Rate Goes Into Effect Sept.1 Deadline for Carbon Credit Contract Signup Is Aug. 15 New Power for MF 5400 Series Maturity Issue Could Have Legs Watch For Soybean Aphids NOW Iowa Crop Loss Less Severe Than Expected Brazil Diary: Iowa Intern Offers Inside Look at South American Competitor How Can Progress in Geneva Move WTO Talks Forward? Cellulosic Biofuel Research Gets Shot in Arm Rural Electric Loans Awarded Plymouth County Pork Producers Donate to Flooded SE Iowa Hog Farmers Hart Named New Grain Marketing Economist at ISU Report Recommends Cautious Action Toward Biofuels Off-Road Vehicle Line Gets Makeover Iowa Soybean Association Breaks Ground for New Offices Iowans Invited to "Join the Ride" at 2008 Iowa State Fair Energy Speculation Bill Still Stalled Salmonella Found in Mexican Irrigation Water USDA Issues Interim Final Rule on Federal Milk Marketing Orders Specialty Crop Research Applications Available Failure to Reach WTO Agreement Unfortunate Iowa Taking Steps to Open Public Lands for Haying and Grazing Rouse Named Executive Director of ICIA Weld or Keep the Lights On Horse Transport Bill Introduced in House USDA Says No to CRP Penalty-Free Early Outs WTO Talks Breakdown in Geneva U.S. Beef Reaches South Korea U.S. Beef Reaches South Korea U.S. Beef Reaches South Korea Limits on Farm Operating and Ownership Loans Increased Corn and Bean Conditions Very Good Interim Final Rule for Mandatory COOL New Grass-Based Livestock Group Formed Crop Delays Will Carry Through to Harvest Cow Power Could Generate Electricity for Millions Cow Power Could Generate Electricity for Millions Cow Power Could Generate Electricity for Millions When Is Right Time to Spray Fungicides? Here Come the Bean Leaf Beetles Groups to Host COOL Workshops COOL Workshops Being Presented Groups Hosting COOL Workshops Veneman Mentioned as Potential Obama Running Mate Diesel Air Compressor Is Thrifty This Could Be Decision Week for Fungicides More Federal Disaster Assistance Available July Cattle Report Shows Smaller Inventory July Cattle Report Shows Smaller Inventory Elk Likely Source of Brucellosis Pork Checkoff Sponsoring Future Leaders July Cattle Report Shows Smaller Inventory These Dark And Stormy Nights Do You Want To Change Your Cropland Lease? USDA Renews Funding for Swine Health Research Cutting the Carbon Hoofprint Producers with Approved Contracts Can Continue Haying and Grazing CRP Swine Health Research Funding is Renewed CFTC Combating Manipulation of Futures Markets Harkin Says WTO Action Not Likely Until Next Year PFI Field Days Focus on Crops, Grazing, Next Generation Should Cattlemen Consider Warm Season Grasses? Cutting the Carbon Hoofprint Pork Board Elects New Leadership Animal Care Initiative Launched by Farm Bureau Animal Care Initiative Launched by Farm Bureau Animal Care Initiative Launched by Farm Bureau Animal Care Initiative Launched by Farm Bureau Court Rules to Allow Haying and Grazing of CRP Animal Care Initiative Launched by Farm Bureau Versatility Both Ways Australia Receives Much Needed Rain Farm Bureau Launches Animal Care Initiative Some Progress being Made at WTO Meeting Is That Common or Southern Rust on Iowa Corn? Unusual Foliar Diseases Showing Up in Corn Corn Congress Re-elects Iowans to National Board Soybean Cyst Nematode Now Appearing on Bean Roots Amendments Could Derail Speculation Bill RFS Waiver Decision Delayed Opinions on U.S. Subsidy Cut Vary Greatly Renewable Energy Grants and Loans Awarded by USDA Kubota Lays Down Tracks With New Krawler EU and U.S. Offer Cuts on Subsidies Iowa Crop Conditions Continue To Improve In July Congress Investigating Speculation Lamy Says Now is Time for Action Shift in Sweeteners Near Record Numbers Seen for All Milk Prices Fewer Cattle and Less Bang for Checkoff Buck More EQIP Money Available for Iowa Late Silking Puts Corn Yield at Mercy of Fall Weather Know Your Hay's Humidity Milk Prices Remain Very High Beef Industry Must Do More with Less Dig Roots Now To Assess Corn Rootworm Damage Start Scouting For Soybean Aphids Judge Orders Parties to Work out Compromise on CRP First Half of 2008 Was Wettest Ever for Iowa Contact FSA for Emergency Conservation Assistance FMD Bill Passes Senate Committee Public Meeting Scheduled on BioPreferred Labeling U.S. Trade Representative Hopeful about Ministerial Meeting USDA Funding Research of CCD EPA Not Expected to Roll Back Mandate Argentine Senate Rejects Sliding-Scale Tax Farm Groups File Amicus Brief on CRP Presidential Candidates Pledge Support to Agriculture Bi-partisan Delegation Headed to Colombia E85 Ethanol Sales Up Sharply as Gas Prices Rise Tips to Help Manage CRP for Hay or Pasture Getting Ready for COOL More Rain Likely in Corn Belt Additional Funding for Conservation Programs Rallies Attempt to Tilt Argentine Senate Vote Knowing Your Corn's Silking Date Is Valuable Information Take Advantage of Iowa Hay and Straw Directory Governors Association, GM Team Together on E-85 Expansion New Record Set for Pork Sales, Beef Also Increases New Record Set for Pork Sales, Beef Also Increases Beef Checkoff Launches New Web Site Iowa Crops Continue To Improve Cutting Costs by Limiting Pasture Clipping Meat Exports Continue to Rise Flooded Fields May Have More Disease Farmland Leasing Meetings Begin July 17 Pequea Offers Fluffer Tedders Reduce Use of Fuel and Time by Using Smaller Pastures and Frequent Moves New Record Set for Pork Sales, Beef Also Increases Badger Band to Officially Kick Off Wisconsin Farm Technology Days Case IH Adds New Flail Conditioner USDA Provides Funding to Develop Science-Based Tools. WTO Nations Reviewing Revised Texts Australian Drought is Hurting Wheat Seeding FSA Allows Manure Application on CRP Online Calculator Can Help You Evaluate New Farm Program Fungicide Could Be Next Big Call Farmers OK Increase In Iowa Corn Checkoff USDA to List Stores Receiving Recalled Meat New Grizzly 550 Purrs Like a 700 Conservation Funding Pushed by Harkin Is Released FSA Announces 2008 DCP Sign-Up Senate Introduces Legislation to Protect U.S. from FMD Barge Traffic Resumes on Mississippi River NCBA to Review Governance Structure Pioneer Launches New Generation of Soybean Varieties Environmentalists Lodge Complaint with USDA Farm Credit Helps Customers Hurt By Severe Weather Iowa Cropland Rental Rates Up 18% For 2008 Soybean Association, EU Feed Industry Want Greater Biotech Acceptance Courts Issue Restraining Order to Stop Haying of CRP Senate Ag Committee Approves CFTC Nominees Peterson Urges Caution on Regulating Energy Futures Iowa Farm Bureau Asks Congress for Specific Help Field Days Look at Opportunities for Next Generation in Farming Mexican Sweeteners Added to USDA Reports USDA Releases CRP Acres for Livestock Grazing in Flooded Regions Argentine Court Upholds Legality of Grain Tax Asgrow Narrows Finalists for Roundup Ready 2 Yield Iowa Crops Improving With Better Weather Insurance Has Greater Importance this Year R-Calf Obtains Preliminary Injunction Crop Development Continues to Lag Behind Normal How to Get Better Weed Control in RR Beans USDA Begins Issuing Advance Payments South Korea Names New Cabinet Ministers ICGA Supports Keeping The Current RFS NPPC Urges EPA To Waive Ethanol Mandate Signs of Disease, Insects Showing on Young Corn House Sets Hearings on Futures Markets British Newspaper Attacks Alternative Fuels Truncated Signup Period for DCP Program Kansas Reader Wins Polaris Prize Culver & Northey Call For Immediate Release Of CRP Farmers Reminded of Corn Checkoff Vote July 8 Helping Iowans Make Better Decisions in Tough Times Don't Use Flood-Soaked Grain for Feed or Fuel Bigger Acreage Helps Soften Flood Losses NBB Responds to AEI Discussion Plaintiffs Ask Court to Consider New BSE Case in Ruling USDA Official Tapped for Farm Credit Position Drier Weather for Midwest at Last National Sorghum Checkoff Begun Degree Days Continue To Lag In Iowa Ag Leadership Program Deadline Nears Confidence in Food Safety is Rebounding Late Corn Replanting Carries Major Risks Only Half Of Iowa Corn Crop Rates Good Or Better Planted Acreage Exceeds Expectations Wet Weather Continues to Delay Corn and Soybean Progress Goodlatte Speaks Out in Favor of RFS Reduction USDA Announces Grants Clark Tapped to Head NASS U.S. Hog Inventory Surprises Analysts Disaster Loans Available for Flooded Farmers Iowa Hit With Half Of U.S. Crop Damage Spray Late Emerging Weeds In Corn? Sidedressing Corn Without N Will Level Playing Field WTO Director General Pushes Trade Talks Senate Anti-trust Chair wants to Block JBS Acquisitions Permanent Disaster Program and ACRE Will Take Time Leopold Center Seeks Project Ideas for 2009 R-CALF USA Wants Brucellosis Program Expanded Remember Safety During Flood Renovations Build Stock Trailers with "PerfectFit System" U.S. Beef Set to Enter South Korea Following a Wet Planting Season - Will Crop Diseases Flourish? Crop Rotation Variance Granted for Organic Farmers Direct and Counter Cyclical Payment Sign-Up Announced HSUS Releases More Video Uncertainty Surrounds Crop Production FMC Wants to be Your Hero USDA Plans for More Crop Surveys Carefully Clean Farm Buildings After Flood Financial Assistance for Flood, Tornado Victims AVMA Testifies on Antimicrobial Resistance before Senate House Agriculture Committee Postpones Energy Vote Integrated Electronics Keep Tabs on Harvest Operations Corn Conditions Improve; Soybeans Still Lagging Behind Crop Disaster Sign-up Begins Is Your Well Water Safe to Drink? Former USDA Economist Criticizes Ethanol Policy Cattle Supply is Shrinking CFTC Chief Assesses Futures Market in Back-to-Back House Hearings Canada Confirms New BSE Case in BC Canada Confirms New BSE Case in BC Canada Confirms New BSE Case in BC Kawasaki Adds Fuel Injection to Brute Force 750 Crop Devastation Nears $3 Billion South Korean U.S. Beef Imports Could Resume Soon Corn with Preplant N Gets Nod Early Why Flooding Is Occurring More Often Swine Waste Feeds Grassland Pastures Missouri's Plain Pegs Swine Breeding Herd Down 2% Haybuster Has New Grain Grinder Group Forms Ag Safety Council Photo Diary: A Look at the Flood Landscape Machine Works Like a Dawg June 25 Next Key Date For Crop Insurance Meat Industry Responds to South Korean Demand for Younger Cattle South Korea to Import Only Younger Cattle Renewable Fuels Standard Under Fire USDA Working to Assess Flood Impact Companies Donate To Support Flood Relief Efforts Manage Manure Storage Structures in Wet Weather Farm Progress Show Site Development on Schedule Biofuels Take Heat from Flood Impact Flood Impact Keeps Spreading New Biotech Advancement Announced National Corn Growers Name South Dakota Farmer to Leadership Farm Bill Veto Overridden...Again Biofuels and Renewable Energy Get Special Attention New Chevron Delo Grease Weather Is Making Post Applications More Challenging June Agricultural Crossword Multi-Trait Corn Package Moves to Regulators Next Flood Challenge: Crop Insurance Hayfield Lodging - Some Fields Have Fallen Flat ISU Research Farm Field Days 2008 Schedule Crop Insurance May Help Flooded Farmers Disaster Assistance Reminders From FSA South Korea Leader to Make Beef Statement Scab Incidence Varies Across Midwestern States China Buys Beans Under the Arch Survey Shows Extensive Need For Replanting Biodiesel Clears Significant Hurdle Iowa Flooding Moves Downstream...to the Mississippi Grain Dispute Case Moves to Higher Court USDA Extends Deadline to Report Planted Acres Group: New Hypoxia Plan Needs More Information Pick Up Loose Material with the Clawt Pick Up the Pieces and Move On Record Prices Cause Buyers to Back Off Iowa Officials Stunned By Aerial View Of Crop Loss FAPRI Says Oil Major Factor in Commodity Prices Flooding Slows Iowa Biofuels Production Farmers Facing Tough Decisions On Late Planting Syngenta Issues Alert on Five Hybrids Up To 20% Of Iowa Grain Crop Lost To Flooding Flood-related Resources Available For Iowa Dole, McGovern Named 2008 World Food Prize Winners Get Answers At Emergency Crop Meetings FSA Nominations Open June 15 Flooding Causes Closing of Mississippi River Locks USDA Announces Farm Bill Provisions Pros and Cons of USDA Allowing CRP Acres for Livestock Use An ATV Stile Rural Voters May Sway the Presidential Picking? Erosion Control Structures Are Paying Off Rains Continue in Midwest; Drought a Concern in Other Areas U.S. Will Not Renegotiate Beef Deal with South Korea Practical Farmers of Iowa Hosts Field Days DOE and USDA Send Letter to Senate Energy Chairman CFTC Interagency Task Force to Study Commodity Markets Iowa Crops Behind Normal, Plagued By Flooding Farmers Warned As More Flooding Expected USDA Cuts Corn Yield Estimate Food Before Fuel Partnership Launches Campaign M-F Adds Four New Subcompacts Canadian Food Label Consultations Close Corporations Joining USDA in Promoting Nutrition Beginning Farmer and Rancher Committee Will Hold Open Meeting ICGA and IRFA Expose Trickery of Anti-Ethanol Critics Oklahoma Attorney General Urges Scrutiny by DOJ Weather Remains Issue for Corn and Soybeans Twin-Row Concept Gains Momentum Western Iowa No-Till Field Day June 17 How to Make Soybean Replant Decisions President Will Veto Farm Bill Again USDA Releasing Supply, Demand and Price Projections SIP Growing Well Carefully Assess Hail Damage To Corn Advice For Farmers With Flooded Fields Senate Re-Votes on Farm Bill Cattle Feedlot Tours Slated for June 16-19 Windsock Designed for Chemical Application Projects Pork Producers Warn of Significantly Higher Pork Prices Schafer Says FAO Meeting Productive Blender's Credit Viewed in New Terms Lamy Says Talks Moving Toward Moment of Truth Immigrants Fuel Alternative Weed Control Weldcraft Offers New TIG Torch Iowa Conference to Address Livestock Situation Seven Iowa Watersheds to Receive $5.4 Million Senate Holds Hearing for CFTC Nominees Update Considered for Poultry Improvement Plan WTO Rules Against U.S. in Cotton Dispute Company Announces Commitment to Double Crop Yields Pulling Back The Curtain and Peering Into the Future Of Corn June 10 WASDE to Include Cotton Price Projections Should You Capture This One-Time Tax Savings? Iowa Farm Bureau Proposes Comprehensive Energy Plan Some Gas Pumps Unable to Compute High Prices Tyson to Withdraw Raised Without Antibiotics Label USDA To Step Up Defense Of Ethanol State of Iowa Opens Trade Office in China Consider Replant Options For Corn Fields U.S. Presents Strategy to Combat Food Prices Planting Springs Forward High World Wheat Harvest Needed Avian Influenza Research Funding Renewed South Korean Protesters Ask Court to Block U.S. Beef Higher Fuel Prices Boost Custom Farming Costs Referendum to Raise Iowa Corn Checkoff Announced This Year's Plots Will Put Delayed Planting Theories to the Test Critical Time for Farm Strike in Argentina Congress Back From Recess USDA Announces Record Forecast for Exports Will You Be Planting Soybeans In June? Flooded Corn Fields, Saturated Soils Survey on Continuing Pork Checkoff will be Conducted Schafer Leads Presidential Delegation to Rome South Korea May Allow U.S. Beef in Next Week World Pork Expo Marks 20th Anniversary Miracle Heel for Skin Damage Pork Prices Increase Despite Surplus Supplies Windows-based Program on Display at WPX Still Time to Signup for Livestock Assistance Programs WTO is Reviewing Doha Documents Farm Groups Address 'Hype' Surrounding Ethanol Evaluate Alfalfa Fields for Harvest Timing It's Time to Scout Emerging Crop Stands As Black Cutworms Hatch, Economic Thresholds Drop Fungus Improves Corn-to-Ethanol Process Iowa Corn Crop 93% Planted, Soybeans 72% Planted USDA will Implement New Farm Bill to Best of Its Ability Schafer Confident Beef will be Heading to South Korea Soon Corn and Soybean Progress Improving; Wheat Still Slow Developing Pork Prices Increase Despite Surplus Supplies USDA Opens CRP Ground for Haying and Grazing CCSP Releases Report on Climate Changes Where Do You Get Weather Information? Another Delay to Beef Trade with South Korea Argentine Farmers Promise Action DDGS Market Budding in North Africa, Mature in Israel Argentine Farm Talks Break Down Again Iowa Groups Hail Passage of Federal Farm Bill Still Time to Return Your Ag Census Forms Hybrid Vigor Difference Visible to the Row Iowa Corn Is Having Emergence Problems Weed Control Timing Is Critical To Protect Corn Yield President Touts Importance of Agribusiness in Global Trade Coalition Remains Committed to Helping Livestock Farmers House and Senate Override Farm Bill Veto Trade Ministers Must Move Doha Talks Forward Little Change Expected in 2009 Meat Exports JBS Contracts Require Feedlots to Waive Rights One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for Farm Bill Alfalfa Management Practices Aid in Curing Process Congress Halfway to Veto Override Wild Weather Has Impacted Many Areas Crop Insurance Deadlines Loom JBS Wants Feedlots to Waive Rights Argentine Farm Talks Scheduled Biodiesel Tax Credit Extended President Vetoes Farm Bill Research Shows Low-Input Farming Systems Pay New Ethanol Legislation "Great for Iowa Consumers" MIG Welding Made Easy USDA Proposes Ban of Downer Cattle No Time to Waste for CSP Signup Potential Tariff Reduction Formulas Released in WTO Talks Authorities Investigating DFA DFA Investigated for Possible Price Manipulation Ban of Downer Cattle Proposed by USDA Good Progress Made in Corn Planting Corn Growers "Call to Action" to Defend RFS Still Behind Normal, But A Stellar Week For Planting Farm Bill Veto Could Happen Tuesday Chinese Earthquake Shouldn't Affect Grain Markets EPA Seeks Comments on RFS Waiver USDA Host New Conference on Food and Fuel Feedlots Beginning to Clear Backed Up Inventories Revised Texts for WTO Ag Negotiations Being Released Heritage Catalog for Ferguson, MF and MH Minimize Soybean Yield Loss from Late Planting Delayed Preemergence Herbicide Applications For Corn Raindrops and Cool Temperatures Plague Some Areas Cattle on Feed Report Shows Record Marketing SunEthanol Wins DOE Grant Black Cutworm Advisory Issued For Iowa Don't Switch Corn Hybrid Maturities—Not Yet Iowa Cattlemen Promote May Beef Month Grassley Takes to Senate Floor to Defend Ethanol Administration Still Plans to Veto Farm Bill Final Rule on Livestock Price Reporting Issued Biodiesel Tax Incentive is Extended Senate Passes Farm Bill USDA Issues Final Rule on Livestock Price Reporting USDA Issues Final Rule on Livestock Price Reporting USDA Issues Final Rule on Livestock Price Reporting Square Yard Bales from Massey Ferguson Farm Bill Makes it over First Hurdle Ponds Found to Take Up Carbon Like World's Oceans South Korean Beef Trade Delayed Almost 400 Arrested in Immigration Raid Biobased Product Groupings Designated House Approves Farm Bill Mercy For Animals Accuses Gemperle of Lying U.S. Beef Won't be Headed to South Korea This Week May Agriculture Crossword ISU-ConocoPhillips Collaboration Advances 26 Projects Iowa Agriculture Continues to Lead Nation Farmers Urged To Consider Replant Option House Takes Up Farm Bill Cold More of a Problem than Wet Senate Votes to Stop Deposits to Oil Reserve Iowa Lags With 46% of It's Corn Acres Planted Iowa Farm Bureau Calling for Veto Override Farmers Making Progress with Corn Planting NASS Making Final Push to Complete Ag Census Undercover Video was Staged Slower than Expected Growth in Dairy Industry Population Study in the Ground CSP Sign-up Will Run Through May 30 Iowa Receives Funds to Promote Specialty Crops Schafer Says President Committed to Veto At-a-glance Temp and Humidity Readings Dairy Industry Growing Slower than Expected NAIS May Play a Role in Implementing COOL Ethanol Incentives Don't Fuel Food Costs Tips For Coping With Delayed Soybean Planting President Will Veto Farm Bill Celebrate May Beef Month in Iowa Conference Committee Releases Farm Bill Report Midwest Senators Oppose RFS Waiver Large Wheat Crop May Not Drop Prices CSP Sign-up Extended Checkoff Chairman Calls on Iowans to 'Stand Up for Corn' How Much Corn Planted In Iowa Depends On Location Farm Bill Agreement Reached U.S. Livestock Allowed into Russia Senate Hearing Questions Use of Ethanol Subsidies HSUS Releases More Videotape Host of Crop Protectants Get Approved Should You Plow up Your Alfalfa Stand? Deadline June 1 for Century and Heritage Farms Debate Continues on Blame for High Food Prices House Holds Hearing on RFS Implications National Sorghum Checkoff Approved When Is It too Late to Plant Forages? Iowa Has Only 18% Of Its Corn Planted Republican Senators Join Assault on Ethanol FTC Challenges Agrium's Purchase of UAP Planting Progress in Midwest Still a Mixed Bag Congress Schedules Hearing on Concentration in Agriculture Slow Emergence Saving Winter Wheat Crop Time for Another Shot at 300-bushel Corn Another Request for Ethanol Waiver Argentina Strike Resumes Pay Attention to Planter Adjustment in Wet Soils Manage 2,4-D Carefully For No-till Burndown Weed Control NIMBLE Registered for Small Grains USDA Purchasing Pork USDA and DHS Hold Joint Conference Iowa Farmers Finding Places To Plant New Farm Bill All But Done Iowa's Future Bolstered by FFA and Agriculture Iowa Agriculture Making Environmental Improvements Congress Sends Farm Extension to President Increased Food Costs Not Caused by Single Factor State Attorney Generals Asked to Investigate JBS China Causing Grain Shortage Two-Week Extension of Farm Bill New Source for Soybean Production Information Nominations Open for 2008 Spencer Award Deadline Approaching for Dairy Disaster Sign-up Farm Bill Conference on Hold Major Changes Made in Farm Bill Commodity Title USDA Honors Dee River Ranch for Conservation April Showers are Stretching into May Iowa FFA Elects New State Leaders Soil Management & Land Valuation Conference May 21 New Directory Will Help Pesticide Applicators Avoid Drift Damage Hard to Tell What Will Happen with Farm Bill Final Pew Report Proposes Changes for Animal Production Ethanol is Under Attack Dairy Industry Launches Environmental Initiative Watch Fields Closely If You Delay Weed Control Only 3% Of Iowa Corn Acres Planted Hay Prices Are Going Through the Roof Farm Bill Meeting Rescheduled FSA Releases Farm Information Beef Board Begins Process to Analyze, Change Checkoff FDA Sued for Food Inspection Work Plans FDA Approves Baytril 100 for Swine FDA Approves Baytril 100 for Swine Farm Bill Conference Committee Meeting Postponed Resist Temptation to Take Shortcuts Just to Plant Texas Seeks Ethanol Exemption Conference Committee Working Out Final Details of Farm Bill Leopold Center Working With New York Food & Ag Center Beef Producers Learn From Trade Mission to Mexico FDA Withdraws StarLink Testing Guidance Farm Bill Funding Breakthrough Congress Passes Farm Bill Extension Did Harsh Winter Kill Crop Insects? Iowa Soybean Rust ID System Gets Overhaul Colombian Trade Ticker Launched Reversing Animal Infertility Australia Clears JBS to Acquire Tasman Senate Extends Farm Bill Corn Planting Finally Gets Started In Iowa Delay Burndown Herbicide Application In No-till? AWB Barred from USDA Export Programs Plenty of Potential for U.S. Beef in South Korea Karcher Offers Hand-truck Washer Design NPPC asks USDA to Address Pork Industry Crisis FDA Releases Final BSE Feed Rule WTO Talks Remain Sluggish Utah State Student Named Young Animal Scientist Hemorrhagic Bowel Syndrome Full-Season Hybrids Best Choice, Even if Planting Is Delayed ISU Extension Updates its Soil Fertility Web Site Bush Asks For Longer Extension of Farm Bill Argentine Talks Break Down CFTC Explores Market Conditions A Gut-Level Green Issue Argentine Wheat Register Closed Indefinitely STEP-UP Gives You a Pickup Boost Corn, Barley and Oat Acres Cut by Canada Carbon Offset Web site Launched Study Shows Ethanol is More Efficient Farmers Want Ag Weather Program Returned to WOI-AM Don't Create Problems for Your Crops This Spring On-line "On the Road" Is a Ford Feature President Signs Extension; Congress Still Has Steep Climb South Korea Opens Market to U.S. Beef Base Cropping Decisions on Long-Term - Not One Year Doha Deal Needed This Year Cattle on Feed Report Bullish High Production; Low Profits in the Hog Industry U.S. and South Korea Agree to Beef Deal Beef Production Higher than Expected Hog Industry Seeing High Production; Low Profits Cattlemen's Foundation Awards $3,000 in Scholarships Farm Bill Remains Up in the Air Conference on Livestock Odor Reduction May 19-21 Comment Period Closes on NAIS Business Plan More Beef Production than Predicted Senate Extends Farm Bill Global Trade is Slowing Down Climate Change Conference April 25 at ISU Power Fund Moves on Renewable Energy Proposals House Passes One-Week Extension of Farm Bill USDA Barter Initiative Will Help Feed Hungry USDA Implements NAIS Business Plan Strategy Immigration Raid at Five Pilgrim's Pride Plants NAIS Business Plan Strategy Implemented by USDA U.S. Pork Exports Continue to Break Records Got Dairy Cows? Check Out This Survey N.Y. Reactivates Milk Marketing Advisory Council Canadian Hog Cull Underway NAIS Business Plan Strategy Implemented by USDA NAIS Business Plan Strategy Implemented by USDA Stockyards in South St. Paul Hold Final Sale Conference Committee Approves Farm Bill Titles Midwest Has to Deal with Another Storm Fuel Costs Drive 2008 Custom Rates Higher PTO Incident Survivor Spreads Word on Farm Safety Farm Bureau Urges Changes to Temporary Worker Program Funding Remains Major Roadblock for Farm Bill Wanted: People Passionate about Pork Farm Groups Call for Stop to U.S.-Korean Beef Talks What If You Don’t Have Fertilizer Applied Yet? Planting Time Decisions Are Critical for Soybeans Conference Committee Agrees on Farm Bill Programs Corn Planting and Wheat Development Behind Schedule South St. Paul Stockyards Hold Final Sale ODA Amends Dairy Labeling Rule Halt to U.S.-Korean Beef Talks Asked for by Farm Groups April Crossword Puzzle Senate Counters House Farm Bill Proposal Don't Be Discouraged With Soggy Start Are Corn Prices Really at a Record Level? Interest Grows In Narrow Rows Preliminary Injunction Dismissal Denied in Labeling Case CSP Workshops This Week for Middle Iowa Watershed Southwest Wheat Projected Below Average Ag Exports Shattering Records Oil Not Corn at Heart of Rising Food Prices Follow-Up Planned for Food Summit House Succeeds in Delaying Colombian Free Trade Agreement. Farm Bill Conference Stumbles U.S. Resumes Beef Import Talks with South Korea U.S. Resumes Beef Import Talks with South Korea Iowa No. 1 in Producing Its Power from Wind How to Cope With High Feed Costs Leave the Steering to FarmPRO U.S. Resumes Beef Import Talks with South Korea JBS Acquisitions Are Still Being Questioned Will Wet Start Mean Even More Soybeans In 2008? House Names Farm Bill Conference Committee Deere Launches Two New Tractor Lines New Money Approved for Water Quality Projects ISU Partnership to Cooperate on Biofuels Research Colombia FTA Vote In Jeopardy Anti-Trust Laws May Need to be Revisited The Farm Bill: When? Youth PQA Phase-Out Concludes June 1 DeLauro Pushes for NAIS Compliance on Federal Procurement DeLauro Pushes for NAIS Compliance on Federal Procurement DeLauro Pushes for NAIS Compliance on Federal Procurement Several Ways USDA is Fighting Bovine TB Several Ways USDA is Fighting Bovine TB Several Ways USDA is Fighting Bovine TB Another Extension of Farm Bill Not Out of Question I-LEAD Accepting Applications for Ag Leadership Class Culver Signs Surface Water Protection Act Schafer Discusses Colombian FTA USDA Fighting Bovine TB More CRP Going to Crop Production China Boosts Hog and Poultry Subsidies Food Safety Summit Comes to Washington Rural America Issues Aren't Red or Blue Nematodes in Soil Can Damage Corn Pressure Rises for Farm Bill Decision Bush Sends Colombian FTA to Congress USDA Hosting Food Safety Summit Sow Lameness Symposium Held USDA Changes Meat Inspection Procedures USDA Changes Meat Inspection Procedures USDA Changes Meat Inspection Procedures A Pair of Bears for 2008 Pioneer to Treat its New Soybean Varieties with CruiserMaxx Beans Two Weeks Until Farm Bill Deadline USDA Changes Inspection Procedures Problems for Crops Keep Expanding First-ever Sow Lameness Symposium Held Iowa Hog Producers Looking at More Red Ink Soggy Soils Could Mean Big N Losses This Spring When Will Right Planting Window Appear? Carver and Wallace to Be Featured at Lecture Farm Safety Advocate Is 'America's Greatest Hometown Hero' House Members Join Conservation Groups Against Cutting Farm Bill Conservation Farm Bill Keeps Grinding Forward Schering-Plough Program to Affect All People, Units Livestock Producers Number One Consumer for U.S. Soybeans Smithfield Names New Pork Team Seminar on Swine Disease Draws Crowd in China Operation Strip-Till Gets Rolling in Iowa Rules Proposed for Deer Control in Iowa Offsets Still the Major Problem for Farm Bill Wet Spring Troublesome; But Bigger Problems Could Follow Monsanto Plans Expansion in Louisiana Comments on Two CAFO Issues Are Due Partnership to Help Advance Cellulosic Ethanol Conversion Technology Farmers Rethinking Planting Plans Grassley Pushing for Higher Blends of Ethanol More Rain Coming for South and Midwest Weather Watchers Say Odds Favor Dry Summer Corn Growers Take 2 in the Ethanol Debate Argentine Wheat Exports Set to Open Next Week Rising Pork Output Pressures Prices Pioneer Releases Information to Advance Corn Research EPIC Responds to Time Article U.S. Proposes to Merge CFTC and SEC WTO Rules Against EU on Beef Hormones Pesticide Drift Reduction Starts Now EPC Limits Manure Application on Soybeans Swine Disease Seminar Draws Crowd in China Hog Cost/Price Squeeze Hog Numbers Higher than Expected Stopping Stalk Rot Starts Now Winter Annual Weeds Pop Up in No-till Fields CSP Sign-Up Begins April 18 in Selected Watersheds U.S. Still Accepting Renewable Energy Pledges Hogs and Pigs Report Shows Record Inventories Conservation Groups Send Letter to Ag Leadership Major Cattle Agreement Reached Between U.S. and Mexico Major Cattle Agreement Reached Between U.S., Canada and Mexico Colombia Agreement Headed to the Hill Check Alfalfa Stands for Signs of Winterkill Consider Options to Control Common Stalk Borer Bobcat Enters Tractor Market Wheat Condition in Southern Plains Going Downhill CSP Details Published in Federal Register JBS Acquisition of National Beef, Smithfield and Five Rivers Still Being Fought Brazil Soybean Crop Breaking Records Staff Still Struggling Through Farm Bill Changes Proposed in Price Limits on Futures Contracts ISU Extension Agronomist on Expert Biofuels Panel Racing Team Turns to Ethanol Small-Scale Biodiesel Can Benefit Cattle Ranches Higher Milk Production Expected in 2008 Should You Grow Some Spring Wheat? ISU Extension Crop Production News Now Online Milk Production Increases in 2008 Cattle Ranches Can Benefit from Small-Scale Biodiesel Research Clarifies Effect of Feeding DDGs When Mead E3 Biorefinery Reopens Remains Unclear High Beef Demand Continues Conversion of Pasture to Cropland Consider Fungicide Seed Treatment for Beans Beware of Soybean Seed Quality Problems Beef Demand Remains High Chinese Crops Hurting from Drought Flood Waters Are Headed South Ag Leader Offers Entry-level Guidance System Egg Association and Humane Group form Relationship UN Agency Asks for More Aid Food Company Chief Attacks Biofuels Support Seek Good Sources for Pasture Herbicides Community Service Grants Available from FFA Iowa Farmland Values Up 11% in Past Six Months New Iowa Master Farmers Named for 2008 Nitrogen Results Become More Significant New Mahindra Available Johne's Funding Commitment Renewed NRCS Soil Maps Now Available on the Web Schools Promised Reimbursement for Recalled Beef Farmers Reminded to Contact Iowa One Call National Ag Day Puts Iowa Farmers in Spotlight USDA Renews Johne's Funding Commitment Pfizer Acquires Catapult and Bovigen Pfizer Acquires Catapult and Bovigen Pfizer Acquires Catapult and Bovigen Preview of USDA Hog Inventory Report Preview of USDA Hog Inventory Report Eggs: Great Food for the Iowa Economy Factors Besides Biofuels Are Affecting Crop Prices New Boomer Does More Than Mow Planting Advancing Rapidly in South Conservation Security Sign-up is Announced USDA Names New Deputy Financial Officer Brazil's Soy Harvest Moving Quickly 2008 Iowa Corn Indy 250 Race Set for June 22 2008 Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign Announced Schafer Discusses Administration Position on Farm Bill WTO Meetings Show Promise Canada Seeks Comments on DDGS Feed Rules Producers Planning to Shift Acres Back to Soybeans Aussie Wheat Crop Critical for World Wheat Stocks Beginning Farmer "Bank of the Year" Award Announced Market Needs More Low-lin Soybean Acres NASS Still Accepting Ag Census Ag Week Celebrates Agriculture CME Merges with NYMEX Reorganization of NCBA Staff Universal Remote for Tarping Schafer Supports Farm Bill Extension Caution Advised on Soybean Cyst Nematode Control Farmers Face Glyphosate Price Hike Corn Illustrated Results Don’t Back Seed Rate Increases Argentine Strike Continues NCBA Reorganizes Staff Cattle Industry Loses Leader Cancer Claims Livestock Leader How to Make Renewable Fuels Sustainable Two New Cutters Available Learn How to Market Fruits and Vegetables Annual Iowa FFA Convention Is April 14-15 Bush Says He'll Sign Farm Bill Extension Westland/Hallmark Meat Chief Admits Failures at Plant Opportunities for Trade Plentiful in Africa Failures at Westland/Hallmark Admitted by Company President Do You Want to Get into the Hog Business? Apply for USDA Renewable Energy Grants & Loans Farm Bill Extension is Official USDA Creates New Office for Small Meat Plants Lack of Rain Giving Southwest Jump on Planting Glyphosate Resistant Johnsongrass Confirmed New Herbicide for Winter Wheat Pay Limits Still Being Pushed Iowa Is Increasing Turkey Production Consider Side-by-Side Corn Fungicide Trials Storms Keep Coming Through Midwest China Encouraging Soybean Imports Ag Leadership Agrees on Extension Deere Announces Tier 4 Mission Technology for Larger Engines National Ag Day Essay Winner Announced New Office Created for Small Meat Plants New Office Created for Small Meat Plants New Office Created for Small Meat Plants It's Gonna Be a "Rubber Boot" Spring Biofuel Mandates Will Keep Crop Prices High in 2008 Crop Insurance Will Cost More In 2008 USDA Wants Faster Reporting of Food Illnesses Early CRP Release Still a Big Issue Pilgrim's Pride Sells Turkey Plant Woody Biomass Projects Receive Grants from USDA Corn Growers Debate Key National Policies Iowa Soybean Growers Help Set Policy Priorities Chevron Offers New "Diesel" Oils Even Glyphosate Tolerance has its Limits Farm Bill Deadline is Fast Approaching Brazil Soy Crop Estimates Raised Rains Delay Argentine Corn Harvest Iowa Farm Agritourism Conference Is March 15 Cattle Processors Losing Money Took Opportunity to Sell Surplus Kill Capacity behind JBS Acquisitions Harkin Says Farm Bill is in Reach Deere Collectors Will Gather March 11-12 Researchers Are Studying Switchgrass as a Renewable Fuel Dow Acquires Triumph Seeds Disaster Assistance for Dairy Producers Finally Available Iowa Beef Council Elects New Officers Unlocking the 'Magic' Behind Iowa's Corn Crop Inputs Eating into Farm Income Dairy Signup Begins WIREC Dedicated to Increasing Renewable Fuels Globally Ethanol Industry Gets Shot in Arm from Report FAPRI Says Agriculture's Economic Outlook is Strong National Beef Packing Company Being Sold U.S. Premium Beef Selling National Beef Packing Company Farmers Growing Wheat Urged to Interseed Clover Culver Introduces Energy Plan to Legislature No Partial 2007 Countercyclical Payments Biomass Research Gets Big Boost in Funding Changes to Regulation of CAFO Permits No Pretty Picture for Pork Producers Group Opposes Glyphosate Resistant Sugarbeets New Iowa Field Guide Available for Soybeans Bill Introduced in Legislature to Boost Ethanol Sales Administration Concedes Ground in Farm Bill Fight New Tool for Wheat Weed Control Water Quality Grant Funding What Would Permanent Law Mean USDA Awards Weed Grants Andean Trade Extension Signed Global Trade Talks are Doable Sidedress Application Worth a Close Look This Year Companies Consider Building Ethanol Pipeline Control Erosion and Keep in Compliance Farm Bill Financing Still Not Resolved AMI President Testifies on Hallmark/Westland Issues to Senate Subcommittee New Organization Working To Quantify Sustainable Agriculture Monsanto Develops Second Generation Soybean Scholarship Winners Announced at Classic Political Analyst: McCain Will Have Uphill Battle Schafer: Agriculture's Boom Spearheaded by Trade Ford and John Deere Commit To Using More Soybeans in Production Insurance Product Geared to Ethanol Market Product Aims at Stress Reduction Iowa Corn Growers Visit Brazil Iowa NRCS Names New State Resource Conservationist Crop Insurance Deadline March 17 Senate Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Hallmark/Westland Issues Glauber Appointed Permanent USDA Chief Economist Cleavinger to Take Reins of NAWG Company Working to get EPA to Rethink Refuge NCGA, ASA Outline Policy Goals for 2008 Corn Grower CEO Defends Biofuel Mandates ISU College of Agriculture Presents Awards How to Reduce Nitrate Losses from Fields? Global Demand for Glyphosate is Outpacing Capacity Corn Growers Still Expect New Farm Bill House Extends Andean Trade Act Bayer CropScience Executive Sees Bright Future Farmers Worry Over Input Costs, Markets, Weather U.S. Wheat is Needed by the World Two Iowans Appointed to New EPA Panel Iowa's Marilyn Adams Wins National Award Multiple-Resistance Weeds: Coming to a Field near You? Congress Still Negotiating Farm Bill Number Winter Weather Just Won't Quit New BSE Case Confirmed in Alberta New BSE Case Confirmed in Alberta Some Farmers Have Additional Time to eFile Tax Returns New Holland Introduces T1510 Policy Expert Says Hillary Clinton Best for Agriculture New BSE Case Confirmed in Alberta New BSE Case Confirmed in Alberta New BSE Case Confirmed in Alberta Doha Will Impact Future Negotiations Survey Indicates More Soybean Acres Poet Teams Up With ISU on Corn Starch Study Seeds May be in Short Supply Ethanol Industry Outlook Released LMA Asks High Court to Hear Horse Plant's Case ISU Talks Biofuels, Healthy Oils and 'Pharma Crops' Frost Seeding Time Is Here for Pasture Improvement Acres Stampede Back to Soybeans from Corn Planting Pattern Still Intriguing Question Federal Agencies Find No Risk from Seed Contamination Corn Stocks to Tighten but Prices Should Strengthen U.S. Extension Service Extends Its Reach With eXtension Web Portal EPA Selects Citizens for New Agricultural Advisory Committee USDA Holds Technical Briefing on Hallmark/Westland Recall Too Busy To Report The Good News 'Farming Matters' Forum To Be Held March 25 Good Years Ahead for U.S. Agriculture Presidential Cabinet Members will Participate in WIREC Distiller Grains Exports Nearly Double U.S. Ag Exports to Top 2007 Record by Wide Margin Demand for Grain is Straining U.S. Supply ACWA Expands Into the Des Moines River Watershed NASDA President Discusses Castro Resignation Make Right Choices on 2008 Crop Insurance Annual Agricultural Outlook Forum is This Week EPA Announces Advisory Committee Study Shows Technology May not be Cause of Increased Corn Yield Trends Minnesota Finds another TB Herd Smithfield Begins Sow Reduction New IDALS Staff to Focus On Urban Conservation Senate Receives Counter-offer from House Smithfield Begins Sow Reduction Magellan, Buckeye Partners Studying Midwest Ethanol Pipeline Annual Iowa Water Quality Conference Feb. 26-27 Dryness Pushes Down Argentine Crop Yields Companies Sharing Insect Control Technology Biofuels Bill Introduced In Iowa Legislature Companies Sharing Insect Control Technology Monsanto Makes Big Donation to World Food Prize Foundation Canada Sending Record Number of Hogs Ag Secretary Thanks State Ag Departments Winter Weather Has Helped Western Water Situation New Compact Utility from John Deere New Herbicide Launched for Soybeans Canada Sending Record Number of Hogs UNL Report Shows Byproducts Aid Dairymen 'Business As Usual' Farm Bill Falls Short ISA Weighs In On Alternative Farm Bill Plan Something Not Natural About Killing Healthy Corn Plants Animal Cruelty Charges Filed Animal Cruelty Charges Filed Senate Makes Funding Proposal Doubts Raised About Recent Global Warming Studies Animal Cruelty Charges Filed Progress Made on Farm Bill Retail Beef Prices May Come Down John Ikerd Headlines Shivvers Lecture Feb. 24 Apply for 2008 Value-Added Producer Grants Finding a Final Number for Funding the Farm Bill Ritchie Industries Deepens the Pond Retail Beef Prices May Come Down Retail Beef Prices May Come Down Biobased Product Showcase Scheduled USTR Files Appeal to WTO Call Before You Dig This Spring ISU Alum to Take a Look at the Next 150 Years House Framework Rejected by Agriculture Groups Winter Weather Could Cause Problems for Wheat Net Farm Income Will Likely Set Record International Symposium on Beef Cattle Welfare Set for May 28-30 House Releases Framework for Farm Bill Iowa Congressman Cites Need for More Veterinarians USDA Releases Advance Copy of 10-Year Projections Soybeans Continue to Stay Strong Korean Beef Trade May Resume Soon From the Fuel Pump to the Classroom Study Claims Biofuels Could Worsen Global Warming OEFFA Calls Milk Labeling Ruling 'Extreme' The Beef Buck Stops Here WTO Deadline Approaches for U.S. Appeal Dupont and Precision BioSciences Reach Agreement Iowa Grape Industry Provides Significant Economic Activity Lawmakers Encouraged to Support "Surface Water Protection Act" Brazil May Extend Wheat Tax Exemption Farm Numbers Shrink as Size Increases BoomPilot Offers Section Control New Ag Secretary Talks Better Beef Trade New Ag Secretary Talks Better Beef Trade New Ag Secretary Talks Better Beef Trade GIPSA Proposes Last Minute Rule National Stewardship Award Announced National Stewardship Award Announced NCBA Adopts Policy to Increase Beef Checkoff USDA Provides Update on Meat Packing Investigation DuPont Pledges $1 Million to World Food Prize IDALS Recognizes Top Renewable Fuel Marketers Time to Trust Nitrogen Trials! Officials Oppose Sugar Proposals NCBA Adopts Policy to Increase Beef Checkoff NCBA Adopts Policy to Increase Beef Checkoff More Census Forms to be Mailed GIPSA Proposes Last Minute Rule National Stewardship Award Announced Delegates to Discuss Challenges Facing the Pork Industry Try a Tarp Grabber! Corn Growers Say Farm Bill Falls Short Corn Will Dominate Cattle Market in 2008 Corn Will Dominate Cattle Market in 2008 Corn Will Dominate Cattle Market in 2008 USDA Offers Grants to Assist Value-Added Ag Projects Farmers Market Workshop Set for Feb. 23 Harkin Pushing Forward With Farm Bill Brazil Cuts Wheat Import Tax Settlement Reached in BSE Lawsuit Settlement Reached in BSE Lawsuit Supply-Demand Forecasts Come Out Friday Argentine Corn Sales Explode Settlement Reached in BSE Lawsuit President Reiterates Veto Threat Veterinarian Loan Hearing Ohio Releases New Rule on Dairy Labeling Online Calculator Helps Figure Food Crop Profitability Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit Draws Huge Crowd Grassley Will Take Pay Limits to Conference American Farmland Trust President Will Step Down Farm Bill Main Topic of Ag Commissioners Meeting Biodiesel Yields Higher Energy Balance Budget Coming Under Fire Changes Proposed for Farm Worker Program Suspension at Hallmark/Westland Meat Company Nominations Being Accepted for Environmental Award Winter Storm Moves Across the U.S. ISU Extension Offers Ag Drainage Workshop Working Americans Find Grocery Bills Easier to Pay Than Taxes Solution to Energy Independence Is At Local Level Biodiesel Meets Fuel Quality Standards More Countries Approve New Biotech Beans E. coli Vaccine Moves Closer We Review Arctic Cat's 700 Auto Diesel Farm Bill Conference Members Named More Countries Approve New Biotech Beans Longer Comment Period for Livestock Label Rule Longer Comment Period for Livestock Label Rule Longer Comment Period for Livestock Label Rule USDA Proposed Budget Released New List Of SCN-Resistant Soybean Varieties For Iowa Ethanol Sales Reach Nearly 74% of Gasoline Market in 2007 Growing Dairy Herd Growing Dairy Herd Working Groups Help Producers Delay for Dairy Disaster Assistance Sign-up Longer Comment Period for Livestock Label Rule Longer Comment Period for Livestock Label Rule Delay for Dairy Disaster Assistance Sign-up Learn More About Right Way to Apply Manure ICGA Launches "Kernels of Truth" Campaign Right Population to Plant Remains a Mystery U.S. Cattle Brucellosis Free U.S. Cattle Brucellosis Free Bovine TB Detected at Fresno County Dairy Former Purdue Dean Earl Butz Succumbs at 98 U.S. Cattle Brucellosis Free Downturn of Cattle Cycle Bovine TB Detected at Fresno County Dairy Cattle Cycle on Downturn Ford Rolls Out 2009 F-150 National Pork Board Names 2008 Celebrated Chefs Wind Will Play Large Role in Energy Future Harkin Hopes to Move Forward on Farm Bill IDALS Launches New Farm-To-School Program State Egg Producer Group Gives ISU Big Gift Deadline Looms for Census of Agriculture Marketing Expansion of Low Linolenic Soybeans Bush to Propose Ethanol Tariff Change Study Shows Evolution of Meatcase Demand for ISU Ag Graduates Remains Strong Snow Cover Can Make a Difference in Nitrogen Applied to Wheat Fields Iowa Beef Expo Set for Feb. 10-17 in Des Moines Farm Bill is First Priority for Schafer Charges of Slaughterhouse Cruelty Being Investigated GAO Looks at Food Safety Oversight First Commercial American Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Rural Infrastructure Loans Available USDA Investigating Charges of Slaughterhouse Cruelty Partnerships Leading Way for U.S. Ethanol Industry High Food Prices Could Help Trade Talks Naturally Raised Comment Period Extended Hay Expo Returns to Northeast Iowa Argentina Reopens Registries Schafer Meets With President Bush Dynamic Weather Conditions Packer Price Reporting Ruling USDA Rural Development Names Top Lender Do You Want to Build Cattle Feedlot or Hog Barn? Crustbuster Offers Drive-Over Pit Woods Offers Counter-rotating Tiller Plant Corn on Corn or Go Back to Beans in 2008? Iowa Electric Co-ops Add $1.1 billion to Local Economies Senate Confirms New Ag Secretary CME, Nymex in Merger Talks WTO Sets Target for Trade Talks Lower Argentine Corn Yields Ethanol Contract Replacement Crop Insurance Coverage Enough Infrastructure for Ethanol? Iowa Retains Crop Production Crown Approximately 33% of Worker Deaths Are Farmer Buis Urges Action Roto-Mix Offers New Vertical Units How to Grow Whopper Ears New Conservation Program Disaster Payment Sign-up Underway Schafer Hearing Goes Smoothly More Landowners Signing Up for Carbon Credits Water Quality, Livestock Odor on Legislative Agenda Two New Deere Skid Steers Economic Slowdown Won't Affect Agriculture Much Emergency Funding for Moth Eradication Iowa Power Farming Show January 29-31 Fire at CBOT Could Complicate Trading Today Schafer Confirmation Hearing Two Fuels from One Kernel of Corn Consider Sharing Labor and Machinery Vermeer Launches 40 Series Disc Mowers More Market Access for U.S. Beef New Biofuel Process Shows Promise Egg Web Site Launched New Challenge of Roundup Ready Bobcat Unveils Three New Compact Tractors Predictions of a Warm Spring Iowa Cattlemen's Association Elects New Board Members Help Keep Iowa's Farms in the Family No Need to Renegotiate NAFTA Freezing Temperatures Hit U.S. TB Confirmed in Minnesota Minimal Risk Restrictions Removed Lows Hold in Early Grain Market Trade Congress Back After Break Market Access Benefits Both Parties Germination Issues Affecting Soybean Seed Soybean Growers List Policy Priorities for 2008 Sunflower 4412 Aimed at Residue Management Lower Milk Prices Possible in 2008 Capturing More Sunlight Key to Future Yields WTO Deal Still Possible E85 Sales Continue to Grow in Iowa Livestock Odor Project Still a Priority for DNR Add-on Cargo Light Makes Sense Food Prices on the Rise DDGS Head to Algeria FDA Expands Acheson's Role One Millionth Acre Enrolled in CREP Lincoln Vista Helmet Blinks Bigger Northey Plans to Visit All 99 Counties Again in 2008 Culver to Keynote Renewable Fuels Summit Jan. 3 Renewable Energy Conference Attracting Attention Helping Cold Stressed Livestock AgroFresh and Syngenta Form Alliance EU Fails to Respond to WTO Lease Agreement Reached by NPPC and NPB AFBF Votes to Support COOL Soybean Association Launches Membership Campaign USDA Rural Development Invests $371 Million in Iowa "E" Model Deere Means "Electricity" Opinions Mixed on Clone Announcement Cattle Risk Management Workshops to Be Held Across Iowa Iowa Legislature Begins 2008 Session Biomass Advisory Committee Members Appointed Farm Bureau Elects Leaders FDA Approves Cloned Products What’s Ahead For Crop Prices? National Pork Board CEO Resigns ISU Beginning Farmers Conference Is Jan. 26 Animal Welfare a Heated Issue GM Partners with Ethanol Company Vet Group Reorganizing as Part of HSUS Key Meat Markets Should Reopen Soon EU Lags on Biotech Dispute Changes Final Brief Filed in Cattle Case Dodge Makes Statement at North American International Auto Show Sometimes Luck Helps! Iowa Fruit & Vegetable Growers Annual Meeting Jan. 24-25 Corn Farmers Need to Crunch Numbers for 2008 Farm Bill Veto a Serious Threat Sunco/AcuraTrak Hones Three-point Guidance Schafer Hearing Scheduled Farm Bill Not On Road To Passage Murphy Resigns U.S. Delegation Travels to Mexico City Farm Bill Needs to Get Done Quickly ISA On-Farm Network Conference Is Feb. 20 Iowa Farmers Urged to Fill Out Ag Census Will Doha Round Be Completed in 2008? Farm Bill Compromise Faces Tough Sledding RX for Off-season "Lock Up" Changes to Regulations of Chemicals Iowans Urged to Apply for Soil Conservation Loans Biotech Yield Endorsement Approved by RMA Big Kioti and Upgrades Unveiled New Round of Crop Reports Coming Friday EU Won't Delay Ban on Cages Biodiesel Company Goes Belly Up Outbreak of Tornados; Flooding May Follow E. Coli Use in Biofuel Production Iowans Appointed to Soybean Transportation Board Farm Credit Vital to Meeting Energy Bill's Biofuel Goals Senators Travel to Europe No Definition of 'Natural' Scholarship Deadline Extended Grain Standards for Distillers Grains Nebraska Study Finds Major Potential in Switchgrass Ethanol Tackle Waterhemp with Practical Solutions Spencer Award to Be Presented to Linn County Farmer Farmtrac Upgrades Small Tractor Line Pork Groups Team Up with Illinois Corn Growers on DDGS Research Veto Threat could be Negotiation Tactic Breakthrough on Avian Flu USDA Proposes Horse Transport Rule Pork Groups Team Up with Illinois Corn Growers on DDGS Research One Year’s Data is Just That - One Year! Ethanol Helping Americans Battle Back as Crude Oil Hits $100 Soy Task Force Calls for Industry Change Kawasaki Counters RZR with Teryx 750 Funding Deal Needed for Farm Bill Leadership Changes at FDA New Working Documents Issued by WTO Appropriations Bill Expands Disaster Aid New Yamaha Rhino Earns High Praise Second Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit Jan. 31 Grazing Summit Is January 11 in Des Moines Nasty Conditions in Midwest; Another Storm on the Way NASS Administrator Retires Energy Merger Advances Write About Cooperatives for $500 Scholarship Association to Give Away Free Polypay Starter Flock Is Now a Good Time to Sell Land? Project Fosters Custom Grazing in Iowa Census of Agriculture Surveys Are Being Mailed Full Implementation of NAFTA Collins' Retirement Becomes Official Simpler Farm Loan Process New CBP Position Now Is Time to Learn How to Go Organic Iowa One Call to Host 'Damage Prevention 101' Retail Beef Prices on Rise Nitrogen Rate Study Held True to Form Food and Fuel Crops Can Co-Exist Soybean Rust Review Schmitt Is New State Veterinarian for Iowa Higher Soybean Acreage in 2008 2007 Was Wild Year for Weather in Iowa La Nina Has Arrived! Corn Industry Success Brazil Biodiesel Mandate ISA Sets Policy Priorities at Annual Meeting Iowa Renewable Fuels Association Continues to Grow Weather Trend Continues Hogs and Pigs Report Released Ammonium Nitrate Security Rethinking the Food Pyramid for One Group Census Packets Hit the Mail Soon High Cattle Feedlot Inventories Organic Farmer Mentoring Program Seeks Participants Learn to Manage Crop Profit Margins for 2008 Argentina Registry Stays Closed Applying Fungicides to Corn May Not Pay Biodiesel Performs Well in First Year of Truck Test Peterson Discusses Farm Bill Conference Conner Unhappy With Conference Bill Schools; Roads Receive Funding Livestock Farmers Wrestling With High Feed Costs Many Farmers Missing Out on High Yielding Beans Christmas Came Early for Corn Growers ICA Annual Convention Just Around the Corner Food Aid for the Hungry Farmer Could Have Paid for Irrigation System in One Year! USDA Funding Rural Development Initiatives New FSA Director Named 2008 Fungicide Application Requirements New Energy Bill Will Have Significant Impact on Economy CAST Releases New Report on Gene Flow in Biotech Crops Free Trips Offered to Farmers to Attend National Conference Change to Latitudes by Rain-X New Ag Trade Office in China Conservation Innovation Grants Available Biotech Alfalfa Regulations Changed Voluntary Incentive Program Unveiled to Reduce Livestock Odors ISU Synthetic Diesel Fuel Project Gets Grant Business Model for Animal ID Energy Bill Enacted Disaster Payments Issued Wet and Snowy December Isn't Over Yet New Swine Flu Identified New Swine Flu Identified President Signs Energy Bill Average Value Of Iowa Farmland Tops $3,900 Comment Period Reopened Commercial Manure Applicator Training Set for Jan. 4 BSE Diagnosed in Alberta House Sends Energy Bill to President WTO Issues Decision in Brazil-U.S. Cotton Dispute Manure Applicator Workshops Scheduled Amity Offers Air System New BSE Case Found In Canada Conservation and Agriculture Scholarships Offered Farmers Named to IFB Resolutions Committee New WTO Case against U.S. Programs Nebraska Becomes Tenth State to Register More Than Half of Animal Premises Energy Loan Guarantee Agreement New Chemical Pump National Corn Yield Contest Winners Announced Farm Bill Finished by Senate Three New Millermatics La Nina Impacts Winter Weather in Corn Belt Specialty Crop Growers Urged to Apply for Funds Proposed Rule for Naturally Raised Livestock Proposed Rule for Naturally Raised Proposed Rule for Naturally Raised Full-season hybrids Did Better Planted Early Full-season Hybrids Did Better Planted Early Rain in Argentina Gives Corn a Boost Peru FTA Signed Naturally Raised Rule Proposed Pilgrim's CEO Suffers Stroke Senate Votes to End Farm Bill Debate Senate Passes Energy Bill Iowa Seed Directory Provides Helpful Information Culver Calls on Congress to Support Continued Growth of Wind Energy PFI Announces Sustainable Ag Achievement Award Payment Limitations Rejected by Senate House Works toward Vote on Omnibus Spending Additional Aflatoxin Research Funds Requested Grassley-Dorgan Amendment Withdrawn Vote Scheduled for Subsidy Amendments Women in Denim Award Nominations Sought Farm Bill Extension Sought South Korean Market for U.S. Beef U.S., China Strengthen Biofuels Cooperation ARGO Off-Road DVD Fall Price Rally Lures More Acres Back to Corn EPA Approves New Corn Herbicide Poultry Can Be Fed Higher Levels of Distillers Grains CSIF Helped More Than 220 Farm Families in 2007 Action on Farm Bill Ice Storms Hard on Livestock Livestock, Ethanol Combination Best for Rural Communities China Lifts Ban on Pork Plants Beef Extravaganza To Be Held December 15 Christmas Tree Growers Make Generous Donations Action Expected on Farm Bill East Fork Biodiesel Plant at Algona Begins Production Court Denies Rehearing of Air Emissions Case Russia May Reopen to U.S. Beef Livestock Farmers Urged To Prepare For Severe Weather MacDon Unveils Harvesting Equipment on Tour Corn, Food Price Correlation Weak Iowa Gives Out $563,800 to Spur Use of Biofuels Check Presidential Candidates on Agricultural Issues Picking Right Planting Date as Important as Planting Early Amendments Offered to Farm Bill Picking Right Planting Date as Important as Planting Early Winter Storms Hit, More on Way Energy Bill passes House, Stopped in Senate Research Links E. coli to Dried Distillers Grain Farm Bill Deal Struck in Senate Renew Rural Iowa Celebrates First Year Study Shows Benefits of Farmer Efforts to Protect Water Quality Energy Bill Makes it Through House Senate Switches Cloture to Energy Bill Economic Policy Being Discussed in Japan Take Care of Stored Grain in Your Bins Always Practice Safety When Working Around Grain Farm Bill Outlook is Still Murky Pesticide Summit in Rome USDA Appoints Advisory Board Beef Plants Being Scrutinized Wheat Registry Remains Closed in Argentina Legislative Study Group Supports Plan to Mitigate Livestock Odors ISU Releases Pig Genetic Marker Technology Peru Trade Agreement Passes Senate Survey of Beef Processing Plants Premiums Offered for Pioneer Low-Lin Soybeans R-Calf Scholarship Applications Available Applications Available for R-Calf Scholarship Peru FTA Approved High Prices Mean No Countercyclical Payments Big Increase in Fall Tillage This Year in Iowa EQIP Provides Record $21.3 Million to Iowa Farmers in 2007 Farm Bill Future Still Unclear One More Hurdle for Peru FTA Asgrow and Dekalb Launch New Web Site Doosan Infracore Completes Acquisition of Bobcat New Holland Endorses B100 in its Diesel Engines Bob Wisner Retires from ISU Extension Uncertainty Remains as Congress Returns Argentine Frost May Have Caused More Damage Watershed Grants Awarded High Population Didn't Pay in Field-Scale Test High Population Didn't Pay in Field-Scale Test Dairy Disaster Program Signup Announced No Deal on Senate Farm Bill Debate New USDA Communications Director ISU Establishes Bioeconomy Institute Discovery of Rust Late in 2007 Was No Surprise China Drops Trade Subsidies FSIS Ends Extra Testing Grain and Livestock Industry to Benefit from New Available Software Crop Advantage Meetings Set for January Energy Deal is Near FSA Ballot Deadline Looms Smaller Soy Area in Mato Grosso New Dairy Web Site Helps Iowa Producers Anonymous Gift of $3 Million Funds Unique Endowment at ISU Reaction to Collins Retirement Signup Announced for Dairy Disaster Program Public Comments on Proposed Rule Sought Nebraska Ethanol Pipeline Discussed USDA Chief Economist Retires Senate Closer to Limiting Amendments to Farm Bill Iowa Farmers Elected to National Biodiesel Board Iowa Farm Bureau to Hold 89th Annual Meeting NCBA President-Elect Resigns Dry Conditions Plague Wheat Crop WTO Postpones Overturn of Biotech Ban Survey: Consumers Don't Fear Biotech Proposed Milk Rule Comment Period Rootworms are Unpredictable, if Nothing Else! Refuge Planning Impacts Seed Purchase Decisions Get Questionable Cornstalk Bales Tested Before Feeding Advisory Committee Needs Nominations Research Continues into Cause of Colony Collapse New Claas Corn Heads for Non-stop Harvest Seattle-Houston Joint Venture Targets Biodiesel Major Australia Supermarket Chain Turns up Nose to Biotech Bonus Option Offered on Carbon Credit Contracts Variety Test Results for Small Grains Available Freeze Scares Producers in Argentina PorkBridge Educational Series Enters Third Year A Farmer and a Nation Give Thanks America Needs to Thank Farmers Meat and Poultry Hotline Open on Thanksgiving FARMALL Makes a Comeback EU Looks at Capping Farm Subsidies Missouri Representative Says Window Still Open for Farm Bill Learn the Latest on Agricultural Drainage Sheep Program Offered at 28 Iowa Locations Thanksgiving Meal Cost Increases Food Stamp Grants Announced Poor Conditions for Winter Wheat Crop FSA County Elections Underway Canadian Cattle Entering the U.S. EPA Now Has Manual to Help Ethanol Plants Learn About the Power of Wind Keep the Water Warm More than Corn Borer Causes Dropped Ears Midwest States Sign Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord Iowa Extends Harvest Weight Limit Exemption Farm Bill Action Still Stalled House Weighs in on Extending Current Farm Bill U.S. Delegation is Attending Agriculture Conference Philippines Opens Beef Market New Spreaders from Pequea Senate Cloture Vote Fails Environmental Agency Seeks Ag Committee Nominations Unique Program Pairs Farmers with ISU Specialists USDA to Pay $257 Million in CSP Payments Nationwide House Asks for Year Extension of Current Farm Bill Senate Holds Cloture Vote Japanese Prime Minister Visits Washington Quantity Loss Signup Underway New Yamaha Rhino Earns Good Marks New Power Tiller from Kuhn U.S. Faces WTO Complaint Senate Leadership Compromises on Farm Bill Amendments Conner Emphasizes Importance of Finishing Farm Bill 'Modern Marvels' to Showcase Future of Corn Iowa Carbon Credit Information Meeting Nov. 20 Harvest Is Wrapping Up In Iowa Energy Bill a Long Shot to be Completed This Year Apply for State Watershed Improvement Funds Iowa FFA Has Three National Winners in 2007 New Holland Supports 100% Biodiesel Drought-Like Conditions Hurting Winter Wheat New WTO Trade Text Released Hobart Handler 210 Loves Aluminum Show-Me a World Record New Book Tells Tale of the Masters Agritechnica is a 'Really Big Shew!' Iowa Forage and Grassland Conference Nov. 19-20 Farm Bill Extension is Possible Farm Bill Would Require Biobased Expo Cagle's Receives Buyout Offer No Movement on Farm Bill Interagency Import Safety Report Has Companion Oil Price Affecting Commodity Prices Changes in Acquisition Procedures for Biobased Products Iowans Applaud Override of Bush's WRDA Veto Biofuel Advocates Want to Loosen Rules for Farm Credit 'E' Model Deere Means Electricity New Holland Supports 100% Biodiesel Free Income Tax Seminar To Be Broadcast Across Iowa Veto Override Ends Wait for Lock Modernization New PQA Fact Sheet Helps Pork Producers Learn the Economics of Sharing Farm Equipment Positive Reaction to Peru Free Trade Agreement USDA Farm Loan Program Announces Changes Goodyear Expands Wrangler's Applications Senate Overrides WRDA Veto Peru Free Trade Agreement Passes House House Ag Committee Holds Hearing on Meat Recalls ISA Directors Support Biodiesel Incentives Winter Feeding Strategies Are Focus of Meetings FAO Report on High Food Prices USDA Announces Funding for Whole Genome Animal Selection Progress Has Been Made in WTO Senate Stalled by Procedural Debate GPS Receivers May Need Reconfiguration House Overrides WRDA Veto Cooperation Needed to Improve Water Quality Chose High-Yielding, SCN-resistant Soybeans Amendments and Administration Dominate Day Two of Farm Bill Debate Action Plan on Import Safety Released South American Planting Advances Floor Debate on the Farm Bill Iowa Heads Into Homestretch On 2007 Harvest 2007 Cornstalk Nitrate Test Results Available Trip to Colombia a Success Optimistic Outlook for Beef Exports to Middle East Confirmation of New Ag Secretary on Back Burner Hay Directory Helps Both Buyers and Sellers Let Soil Temperature Guide Fall Application of Nitrogen Senate Takes Up the Farm Bill Stalk Rot Threat Increases with Stress Override Vote of WRDA Veto Expected FSIS Steps Up Testing of Canadian Meat and Poultry Bush Vetoes WRDA October Was Fourth Wettest Ever For Iowa Integrated Crop Management Conference Is Nov. 28-29 Ethanol Co-Products May Be Used to Build Roads Asian Beef Trade Team Returns Senators Urge EPA to Study Higher Ethanol Blends FSA County Elections Begin 2007 Alfalfa Variety Performance Data Available Iowa Organic Conference Is Nov. 19 at Ames House Committee Approves Peru Agreement; Delegation Set to Visit Columbia Ed Schafer Chosen as New Ag Secretary Cancer Prevention Report Says Limit Red Meat Bush Names New Ag Secretary Americans Want More Renewable Fuels NCGA Displays Outrage at UN Official's Statements ISU Ag Alums Recognized for Outstanding Achievements Local Farmers Honored at "Farm to Folk" Event Decision on Biotech Ban in Hands of European Commission Dry Weather Allowing Combines to Roll Consider Planting Cover Crops This Fall Australian Wheat Estimate to be Released Tuesday CSP Payments Almost Ready to Send No Price Cut on Beef at the Grocery Store Farmers Encouraged to Fight the Urge to Fall Till Dealers Agree to Fall Nitrogen Code of Practice Congress Limits FSA Closures Excess Heat During Season Can Hold Down Yields USDA and FFA Partner on Census of Agriculture Electric Loans Awarded by USDA UN Official Calls for Halt in Biofuels Production Try This Propane Lamp ISU to Present National Conference on Bioeconomy EQIP Signup Period Ends November 30 Reaction to Senate Farm Bill Runs the Gamut Conner Taking Congressional Delegation to Columbia U.S. Winter Wheat Conditions Farm Bill Passes Senate Agriculture Committee Farm Bill Mark-up Underway Iowans Contribute Over $6 Million to Fight Hunger Harvest an Acre, Feed the World Corn Traits Earn European Import Approval WRDA Arrives on the President's Desk Europe Approves Corn Traits for Import Sensaphone Watches Your Fields Weather Change is Welcome Aggressive Action by FSIS against E. Coli ASA Concerned by Priorities of New Farm Bill 'FRESH' Farm Policy Legislation Introduced Smithfield Grants Are Available for Iowa Hog Producers CAST Releases Report on Cellulosic Biomass Compromise Reached on Interstate Meat Sales Iowa Hopes To Make Harvest Progress This Week Payment Limitation Amendment Bypassing Committee Mark-up Congress Closer to Conference on Energy Bill World Food Prize Winner Heralded No Break in Fuel Prices Grass-Fed Label Standards Released Renewable Fuels Take Center Stage at World Food Prize Symposium Standards Released for Grass-Fed Label Shift to Corn May Reverse in 2008 Conner Wants Action On Farm Bill Wet Weather Raises Corn Quality Concerns Aflatoxin in Northwest Iowa Corn Isn't Widespread John Deere Links Dealer's Inventory to eBay Stress vs. No Stress Evident in Corn Illustrated Plots Possible End to Testing Corn for StarLink Goals Needed for Beginning Farmer Assistance Conner Pleased Farm Bill is Moving Forward Big Donation Made to Improve Water Quality ISU to Hold Ag Career Day Oct. 23 at Ames Wheat Prices Could Push CRP Land into Production New Record Estimated for Brazilian Soy Crop E85 Pumps Certified Safe Iowa FFA Prepares for National Convention Free Energy Efficiency Guide Available Now is the Time to Fight SCN Harkin Unveils Deal on Farm Bill EPA Announces Formation of Agricultural Advisory Committee Early Grain Imports for Cattle Feed May Result from Australian Drought More Soybean Rust Found in Iowa Fields Iowans Go to Cuba to Sell Corn and Distillers Grains Minnesota Ethanol Plant Construction Delayed Conservation Call-In Day Organized Record High Soybean Exports Bobcat Enters Compact Tractor Boom House Passes 25x'25 Energy Goal Be Careful Before Releasing Cattle into Damaged Cornfields Wet Weather Slows Iowa Harvest This Week More than 2.5 Million Acres Enrolled in Carbon Program Aflatoxin Found in Iowa Cornfields NFU Urges Congressional Blockage of BSE Minimal Risk Rule AgriEdge Corn Program Expands for 2008 Farmers Plan to Profit from Low-linolenic Beans in 2008 Magellan Opens New Biodiesel Blending Facility Very Little Progress on Beef Trade with South Korea Corn Illustrated Plot Still Standing - Or is it? Grassley Defends Harkin's Postponement Wheat Stocks Lowered Again Cub Cadet, Yanmar Join Forces for New Tractors Deere Rollout: Track Suspension in Action Research Grants Awarded to Study Invasive Pests Doha is Still Doable Decreasing Price of Natural Gas May Not Translate to Lower Fertilizer Costs Peru FTA Headed for Senate Floor ISU Ag Dean Explains Plans for New Century Farm Want to Start or Expand a Feedlot? Consider These Factors First Rust Found in North Carolina Iowa Biofuels Expo Set For Oct. 17 In Des Moines Water Quality Grants Issued Increased Biofuels Use Intensifies Water Quality, Quantity Issues Former Ag Secretary Joins Senate Race Iowa Soybean Association Issues Acre Challenge to Growers National Air Emissions Conference to Be Held in Iowa in 2008 Environmental Group Targets Agribusinesses Move Grain with New Conveyor New World Record Soybean Yield Set in Southwest Missouri Rain Slows Harvest, But Yields Are Good In Iowa Tracking the Price of E85 Ag Groups Fighting EPA Dust Rule Smaller Meetings May be Key to Doha Success Time to Refocus Your Grain Marketing - No LDP This Fall Use New Online Option for Soil Conservation Check Out New Land Search Tool U.S. and South Korea Schedule Beef Talks Resolutions Introduced in Congress to Block Canadian Cattle Farmers Reminded of Crop Insurance Record Requirements Not Much Time Left for Australian Wheat Crop Weekend Storms Send Rust Spores Across the Midwest Avenger in Collector's Garb Planning Started for Renewable Energy Conference APHIS Wraps Up Biotech Rice Investigation Iowa Turns Clover Green for National 4-H Week Oct. 7-13 Iowa Crop Performance Test Results Now Available Expect More Normal Yields from Irrigated Corn Plot Rust Spreads Farther North and West Meat Recall Forces Topps Out of Business USDA Volunteer Killed in Afghanistan Farm Bill Pushed Back; Finance Passes Disaster Aid U.S. Notifies WTO of Domestic Supports Smart Decisions by Rural Communities Make a Difference John Deere Donates $750,000 To Iowa FFA Center Johanns to Officially Run for Senate USDA Reviewing Recall Procedures National Coalition Announces Dairy Animal Well-Being Principles and Guidelines Community Connect Grants Issued Deere Adds to Air-seeding Line Governor Doyle Announces New Cheese Production Record in Wisconsin National Coalition Announces Dairy Animal Well-Being Principles and Guidelines Another Delay in Farm Bill Action in the Senate E85 Wholesale Cost Now Way Below Regular Unleaded Fertilizer Sales Representatives Reluctant to Give Prices NASDA and NFU Back Interstate Meat Sales Provision Australian Wheat Crop Estimate Continues To Plummet GAO Says U.S. Agriculture May be Vulnerable to Foreign Pests Farmers Fined For Hauling Heavy Loads Of Grain State Ag Officials Respond to ‘Weak Inspection’ Allegations USGC Releases Final Numbers from China Corn Tour Conner Optimistic About WTO Talks Senate May Actually Move on Farm Bill Iowa's Corn Growers Smell Success in Livestock Expert To Speak At ISU On Climate Change Kaiser named new World Dairy Expo Dairy Cattle Show Superintendent Iraq Buys U.S. and Canadian Wheat Kaiser named new World Dairy Expo Dairy Cattle Show Superintendent Polaris Offers 6 Passenger UTV Ethanol Plant Construction Halted Leaders Talk Safety at Washington Meeting Plan Now for World Dairy Expo World Dairy Expo Kicks Off Today Weather Aids Harvests Of Corn, Soybeans Good Conditions Aiding Planting in Argentina Pork Center Developing Swine Schools Infrastructure Needed To Move Iowa's Biggest Corn Crop USDA Issues Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants Peru FTA Goes Back to Congress USDA'S Conner to Speak At World Food Prize In Des Moines ICGA Applauds Senate's Approval of WRDA Conference Report Rust Continues to Spread Later-Planted Corn Yields Could Nose Dive Bush Addresses Climate Conference Lack of Rain Worries Brazilian Soybean Growers No Early Release of CRP Asian Soybean Rust Found In Central Iowa Field Opinions Differ on Peru FTA Aflatoxins Found In Some Northwest Iowa Corn Grain Quality Problems Appearing In Northern Iowa ICIA Receives ISO 9001:2000 Certification USGC China Corn Tour Sees Lower Production Global Climate Change Conference Opens in Washington Crop Insurance Sales Deadline is Almost Here Iowa's Corn Crop Delivers Food, Feed, and Fuel Farm Bureau Against Long-Term Extension of Farm Bill Pork Producers Are Upping Expansion Pace EU Drops Mandatory Set-Aside Australian Ag Minister Predicts Poor Wheat Crop Peru Free Trade Agreement Moves Closer Vilsack Lands a Job With BIGMAP at ISU Corn Farmers Making Environmental Progress Lower Crop Insurance Premiums for Using Biotech House Version of COOL Will Be in Senate Farm Bill Soybean Rust Still Moving North USDA Awards $1.2 Million to Assist Value-Added Ag in Iowa Panama Reopens Border to U.S. Cattle USDA Issues $223 Million in Electric Loans Brazil's New Soybean Crop May Set Record Federal Funding to Improve Food Safety ISU Bioeconomy Conference Set for Nov. 5-6 2007 Harvest Is Underway Throughout Iowa Acting Ag Secretary Talks about USDA's Top Priorities Hunger Summit to Unite Iowans in Action Against Hunger WRDA Passes Senate, But Still a Long Road Ahead China's Feed Growth Will Ramp Up WTO Rules in U.S. Favor on Rice Dispute Peru Trade Agreement Passes Senate Committee Iowa Land Prices Rise at Record Rate Southern Iowa Farmer Wins E85 Motorcycle Hybrids of Yesteryear Study Becomes 'How Not To' Plot Soybean Rust Found In Kansas Iowa State New Century Farm Gets Grant Concerned Groups File Petition to Remove IDNR Authority Beef Quality Assurance Program Raises Awareness Save Money by Guaranteeing Your Loan Reaction Toward Johanns After Resignation Swift and Positive Conner Celebrates Food Stamp Anniversary; Awards Grants Harkin Introduces Bill Establishing National Food Safety Framework China May Cut Import Duty on Soybeans PIG Opportunity Secretary of Agriculture Resigns U.S. Trade Negotiator Offers to Accept WTO Subsidy Cap New Pork Program Launched September Is Corn Month in Iowa NAWG Implores Senate to Provide Safety Net USDA Gives $22.7 Million in Value-Added Grants New LGMA Doubts Following Dole Recall Johanns Reportedly Will Run for Senate Farm Payments Play a Role in Converting Grasslands to Cropland Culver Appoints Climate Change Advisory Council Iowa Grazing Survey Indicates Pasture Rental Rates Farm Bill Extended by One Month Lowering Interest Rates Good for Farmers Pork Producers Council Holds Legislative Conference in Washington Harvest Ready to Enter Full-Swing In Iowa Report Questions Link Between Ethanol and Higher Food Prices Monsanto, ISU Settle Dispute Over Low-Linolenic Soybeans If Australia Stays Dry U.S. Wheat Could Reach New Highs Weekend Frost Causes Fears of Decreased Soybean Yields Bech Named Deputy Administrator for Biotechnology SmartStax Will Provide Farmers One-Stop Weed and Pest Control Reactions Vary On USDA's Minimal Risk BSE Rule Get Free Grain Analysis from ISU Testing Lab Iowa Governor Approves Harvest Weight Limit Exemption European Commission Proposes Stop to Setaside Corn Illustrated: Early Harvest Indicates Typical Nitrogen Pattern Soybean Rust Continues to Move North New Class Action Suit Brought Against AWB EU Court Rules in Favor of GMOs USDA Announces Final BSE Minimal Risk Rule Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences Partner on Eight-Gene Stacked Corn USDA Awards Cooperative Development and Community Facility Grants USDA Announcing Final Rule on Canadian Cattle Imports Today Export Demand Offsets Lower Ethanol Consumption Iowa Corn Board Announces Published Patents Culver Appoints Members to Iowa Power Fund Board Ag Secretary Makes Appointments to United Soybean Board Possible Senate Run? Ag Secretary is Keeping Mum USDA Increases Estimates For 2007 Corn Crop Soybean Growers Choose New President New Farm Bill Faces Time Crunch Progress Being Made on U.S.-Korean Beef Trade Issues Slow Start for U.S. Soybean Harvest Crop Protection Firm Talks Strategy Kuhn Extends Mower-conditioner Line Tax Package May Help Farm Bill Agriculture Census Offering Information; Options Online Public Comments Sought on Climate Change Report EU Trade Commissioner Says Clock is Ticking on Doha New Satellites Require Updates to Some Farmer's GPS Equipment Iowa Corn Organizations Elect New Officers Drake University Ag Law Center Marks 25th Anniversary Australian Wheat Crop Estimates Released Brazil's Wheat Crop Looks Better Than Last Year's U.S. Officials Urge Congress to Move on Free Trade Agreements Disaster Aid Signup Dates Announced Bobcat Replaces 533 with Compact S100 IDF Promotes Good Dairy Farming Practices Farmers Urged to Take Online FMD Survey Farmers Urged to Take Online FMD Survey Chinese Government Says It Will Not Stop Soybean Imports Western Canada Already Seeding Winter Wheat Country of Origin Labeling A Year Away…Maybe Give Feeder Calves a Breather Tips for Storing and Handling This Year's Crop Renewable Energy Conference Has Big Name Speakers Mixed Bag of Crop Results in Corn Illustrated Area USDA Rural Development Issues Grants for TV Upgrade Soyoil Gets Big Boost by Biodiesel Virus May Be Cause of Bee Deaths Soy Formula May Stop Child Illness Farmers Urged to Take Online FMD Survey Coalition Meeting Focuses on Biotech Producers Urged to Take Survey to Help FMD Study Counties in Iowa Affected by CRP Decision One More Iowan Is Driving a Flex Fuel Vehicle U.S. Soybeans May Hit $10 in 2007 Honda Enters UTV Market with Big Red Grain Group Forecasts Record Feed Grain Exports Final Push Needed For WTO Trade Talks Another Iowa Ethanol Plant Begins Production Your Ideas Wanted on Rural Driving Safety C. Coleman Harris Retires Countercyclical Payments Begin for Cotton and Peanuts Company Pushes Idea of a New Revolution Farmers May Need to Update GPS Equipment Opinions Differ on House Farm Bill Kubota, Land Pride Announce Agreement A Call for Genebanks to Prevent Livestock Extinction Iowa Farmers Preparing For 2007 Harvest John Deere Unveils 5003 Tractor Line NCGA Pushing Legislative Issues Iowa Department of Ag to Help Cities Fight Runoff Flex Fuel Vehicles Announced for 2008 Congress Back in Session with Plenty to Cover Group Asks for CRP Acre Release Corn Illustrated: Too Early To Tell if Fungicide Application Helped Disaster Sign-up to Start Oct. 15 ICGA Delegates Want Consumer Tax Benefit for E85 Use Arctic Cat Introduces Diesel ATV Borlaug Learning Center to Be Built at ISU Farm Register Now for Iowa Biodiesel Fuel Seminars USDA Projects New Export Record Japan Loses Another Ag Minister Horse Flu in Australia Draws Inquiry Yields Not Hurt As Much As You May Think Grains Council Outreach Efforts Talk Biotech, DDGS NCGA: Keep the Heat on for the Farm Bill Giant Soybeans to Be Auctioned Off Business Grants Promote Rural Development New Engine Idea Enhances Efficiency Keeping Score on Soybean Rust Income Limits Still Hot Topic for Farm Bill Farm Bill Needs Beginning Farmer Options Soggy Soybeans May Yield Less Trade is Hot Topic for Ag SowBridge is Pork Production Educational Program Farmers Urged to Turn to Biodiesel for Harvest New Herbicide Tech on Display Iowa Crops Thrive Despite Torrential Rains Trimble, Dickey-john Partner for Future Lincoln National Ag Award Recipients Named at 2007 Farm Progress Show What to Wear to Fund Youth in Agriculture New Survey Shows Fight for Acres Ahead in 2008 Gates Open for 2007 Farm Progress Show Online Film Attempts to Turn Up Heat on Farm Bill Battle ISU Specialists Discuss Wet Field Conditions Watch Out for Corn Nematodes South Korea Resumes U.S. Beef Inspection German Poultry Farm Infected with Bird Flu Analysts Take a Look at Biofuel Boom Familiar Landmark Rises from Progress City Ag Secretary Makes Plans to Attend Farm Progress Show Corn Growers Remind Growers About New Corn Tech Responsibility USDA Invests in Produce Safety Iowa Farmers Interested In Growing Wheat EPA Develops Help For Anhydrous Ammonia Facilities USDA: Chinese Currency Could Boost U.S. Ag Exports Farmers Fear Crop Loss Following Torrential Rains Growers Urge Action on Mississippi River Locks Corn Trait Gets Japan Nod Chinese Complain About U.S. Soy Quality NCGA: Extreme Conditions Show Importance of Safety Net Flooding Could Pressure Soybean Production More Soft Red Wheat to be Planted USDA Pushes Renewable Energy Projects Tropical Storms Raise Rust Worries Iowa Corn Yield Prospects Looking Good Iowa Growers to Sponsor Corn Indy 250 Again ISU Gets Challenge Grant to Renovate Veterinary Facility South Korea Could Decide Soon on U.S. Beef Dairy Industry Documentary Available on DVD Suspected vCJD Case Refuted Ag Exports to Top $78.5 Billion Five States Poised to Harvest Billion Bushel Corn Crops USDA Aims to Be Better Energy User NCBA Discusses Policies for 2007 New Alternative Swine Production Health Reference Available Grains Council Continues International Biotech Effort New Chance for U.S. Beef in South Korea? Corn Illustrated Weekly: Where Did All the Beetles Go? Iowa State Fair Breaks Ground for Big Addition Governor's Charity Steer Show Raises $118,125 U.S. Food Aid Flawed, Charity Says Water Scientists Worry About Biofuel Side Effects Fruit Producers Brace for Immigrant Crackdown McFarlane Busy with New Seedbed Tool State Council Unveils Proposals to Boost Ag Education New Alternative Swine Production Health Reference Available Sugar Could Boost Ethanol Corn Growers Look for Farm Bill Changes Use Distillers Grains for Livestock Rations Take a Peek at the 2007 Farm Progress Show Site Underwriters Labs on Track to Certify E-85 Pumps Corn Growers Applaud as Culver Unveils E85 Trooper Fleet Southern Corn Harvest Begins What Can New Farm Bill Do to Help Beginning Farmers? Sustainability Initiative Draws Farm Group Support Attend Educational Cattle Feedlot Tour Nearest You Iowa Corn, Soybeans Continue to Look Good Monsanto Appeals Roundup Ready Alfalfa Injunction Plan Fuel Purchases to Catch Lower Prices Time to Get Your Grain Dryer Ready Still Time to Harvest Carbon Credits Valley Offers Single-span Engine Drive NCGA Holds First Agri-Industry Council Meeting Wheat Group Eyes Doha Negotiations Corn Illustrated Plot Offers Surprises British Foot and Mouth Tests Coming in Negative ISU Celebrating 150th Birthday at State Fair ICGA Wants You to Contact Senators About Farm Bill NCGA: Corn Growers Reducing Erosion Japan Set to Approve Agrisure RW USDA Report Predicts Largest Corn Crop in History Farmers Encouraged to Take Advantage of CSP Program If You Plan to Apply Manure, You Must Meet Requirements ICGA Applauds New Consumer Study That Dispels Energy Myths EPA: 2,4-D Not a Human Carcinogen Angus Producers Partner with USDA on Animal ID Meeting to Address U.S. Animal Disease Readiness Angus Producers Partner with USDA on Animal ID Angus Producers Partner with USDA on Animal ID Culver Appoints Director of New Iowa Energy Office Aphids Explode in Iowa Soybean Fields! Farm Management Consultant Suggests Farmers, Tenants Talk Buhler Lists Two New Products for Grain and Hay Conservation Security Program Gets More Funds Watch Out for Door-to-Door Meat Sales Rain Gives Relief to Parched Iowa Crops How Will Global Warming Affect U.S. Corn Belt? Food Standards Aren't U.S. Issue Only U.S. Could Be Making Progress on Japan Beef Talks NMPF Takes Lead in National Dairy ID Effort Disease Outbreak in England Is Reminder to U.S. Producers Test for Nitrogen Before Planting Wheat House Energy Bill Nabs Oil Money AerWay Unveils New Close-coupled Tandem Farm Futures Predicts Record Corn Crop Britain Deals with Foot and Mouth Disease Heat Wave Will Separate 'Men from Boys' Soybean Aphids This Year Are Worse Than in 2003 Wind Turbine Built at State Fairgrounds Senate Will Discuss Rural Broadband Access Study Works Towards Rust-resistant Soybeans Farm Production Costs Climb WRDA Passes House, 381-40 GAO Finds Problems in Animal ID Implementation Japan, Korea Beef Talks Hit Snags USDA Provides Emergency Funds for Bovine Tuberculosis Northey and Wal-Mart Encourage Iowa Shoppers to "Choose Iowa" U.S., China Meet for Food Safety Talks Carbon Credit Signup Deadline Approaches Stay Safe When Lightning Strikes Senate Farm Bill Could Include Controversial Tax Measure Corn Yield Contest Postmark Deadline Is August 1 NOAA: Nutrient Pollution Damaging Nation's Estuaries New Soybean Trait Offers 7-11% Yield Advantage New Soybean Trait Offers 7-11% Yield Advantage Governments Look to Back Up Ethanol Goals WRDA Nears Completion Soybean Topics Featured at Iowa Learning Farm Field Day Practical Farmers Iowa Invites You to August Field Days Rains Help Corn - and Ethanol Reactions Pour in After House Farm Bill Passage Iowa Learning Farm Hosts 'Field Day' in Muscatine First Signs of Disease Noticed in Corn Illustrated Plots Weather Guru Sees Strange Twist to Corn Crop Soybean Aphids Reach Threshold in Many Fields New Soybean Aphid Publication Available Farm Bill Passes in House Legislation Bans Hog Waste Lagoons in North Carolina Legislation Bans Hog Waste Lagoons in North Carolina WRDA Edges Forward House Farm Bill Faces Threats Iowa Biodiesel Board Selects Director Become a Pork Quality Assurance Plus Advisor Soybean Rust Could Move North from Texas A Tale of Two Bills Northey Announces July Good Farm Neighbor Award Recipient Four Viticulture Field Days to Be Held Farm Bureau Survey Shows Retail Food Prices Up in Second Quarter John Deere Overhauls Four Instruction Manuals Senators Propose Revenue Counter-cyclical Program Johanns Threatens Farm Bill Veto Over Lack of Reforms Korean Bone-in Beef Decision Expected in July Flaws Appear in Farm Payment System Northey to Listen to Iowans' Views Aug. 1 Is National Corn Yield Contest Deadline Northey to Visit Marshalltown Ag Groups Voice Opposition to Kind-Flake Iowa Corn and Soybean Crops Still Thirst for Rain Honey Bee Research not on Farm Bill 'A-list' Congress Gets Ethanol Ownership Bill The Farm Bill for Corn Growers Smith Looks for Other Ways to Make Ethanol Scout for Western Bean Cutworms Now Farm Bill Reactions Come In New Chairmen of Biodiesel Board Selected Corn Illustrated Weekly: Drought Damage Assessment Is Tricky Business Remember Costs in Cash Rent Negotiation New Program Will Focus on Underground Utility Safety Legislators Broker COOL Compromise Johanns Reacts to Farm Bill Automated Weighing System Gets Patent New Farm Bill Clears House Committee American Council on Science and Health Acknowledges Borlaug Senate Legislation Expands Biodiesel Education Program Scientists: Only Use Fungicides for Disease Add-on Dump Truck USDA Partners With U.S. Animal Identification Organization EPA Announces Extended Feeding Operation Deadlines Grain Storage Management Meetings to Be Held Hoffman Elected President of ASA Consumers Still Beefing Up With Market Declining, Oats Could Be Cover Crop Monsanto Takes its Show on the Road Specialty Crops Get Boost in Farm Bill Draft Iowans Must Take Steps to Own Wild Animals Leyda, Hjelm Appointed to Fill Vacancies Corn Crop on Record Pace Peterson Proposes $1 Million Eligibility Cap Johanns Announces New Protections for Fruit and Vegetable Imports Northey Concerned About Tax Increase Northey to visit Chickasaw, Howard, and Mitchell Counties Johanns Expresses Disappointment with Farm Bill Borlaug First to Get Congressional Medal for Agricultural Efforts John Deere Announces 5003 Series Tractor Line-up China Returns Fire in Food Fight Renewable Energy Gets $100 Billion Globally Cato Institute: U.S. Dairy Policies are 'Milk Madness' Corn Illustrated Weekly: Low N Rates Produce Classic Nitrogen Firing ISA, IRFA Welcome New Biodiesel Plant to Iowa Grazing Trip Offered Free to Producers and Landowners Biofuels a Hot Topic at Energy Summit Syngenta Grants Zimmerman Corn Rights to Hoegemeyer Hybrids New Web Site Provides YieldGard VT Tips Researchers Say Good No-till Management Can Net Higher Profits Johanns Disapproves of House Farm Bill EPA Meets with Ag Leaders Iowa's Suburbs Show Most Growth New Director for Iowa Crop Improvement Association USDA Seeks Comments on Biotech Regulations ASA Joins Rice Groups in Backing Peterson Proposal Farm Bureau Votes to Back U.S.-Korea FTA Iowans Have Six New Energy Independence Fueling Options Conservation Security Program Funding Restored Beef and Meat Groups Debate Country-of-origin Labeling Senators Introduce Ag Market Competition Legislation Brazil to Join Canada in WTO Complaint Against U.S. Leopold Center Seeks Projects for 2007 Maintain Grain Quality in Storage American Farm Bureau: 'Food vs. Fuel' Not a Concern Conservation Districts Unhappy With Farm Bill Language New Insecticide Gets EPA Registration Iowa Crop Report Shows Rainfall Is a Problem Be a Local Hero, Buy Locally Grown Iowa Crops Starting to Show Serious Heat Stress Japan U.S. Beef Imports Climbing Japan U.S. Beef Imports Climbing Japan U.S. Beef Imports Climbing Ag Groups Ask Congress for More Research Funding Global Biofuel Output Will Double by 2012, Report Says National Corn Yield Contest Entries on Record Pace Johanns Says Progress Being Made on Farm Bill Corn Illustrated Weekly: Mid-season Chlorophyll Readings Leave Questions A Way to Make Biodiesel Cheaper, Faster, Better Keep Current Soybean Standards, Grain Groups Say Kuhn Lengthens Its Rotary Rake Line Cattle Producers Urge Equal Opportunity Energy Policy Iowa Department of Ag Has Three New Bureau Chiefs Funds Earmarked For Renewable Fuels Lab New Opportunity for Organic Producers Ag Secretary Content with Farm Bill Progress U.S. Grains Council: Panama FTA a Win for Producers National Sheep Seminars and Sale Set for Aug. 4 in Iowa ISU Announces Changes for FAPRI Staff Iowa Gets Conservation Innovation Grants Senator Calls for "Import Czar" How to Move Forward with Ethanol? Governor Appoints New EPC Board Member Leopold Center Marks Two Decades of Achievement New USDA Facility to Deal with Animal Diseases Congress May Require Full Korea Beef Imports to Sign FTA Wheat Harvest Could Suffer from Immigration Bill Failure Study: Ethanol Co-products Gaining Popularity Iowa Poised to Produce Record Corn Crop Drop in Bean Acres Puts Squeeze on Biodiesel USDA Gives Interim Approval to Change in Organic Regulations U.S. Wants China to Reopen Market for Beef Shift to Corn Acres Changes Price Outlook Corn Illustrated Weekly: Chlorophyll Meter Will Unmask Differences - Hopefully! Machinery Firms Make Changes Farm Bill May Include Crop Insurance Reductions U.S. Ag Exports Rise in 2006 Corn Plantings Reach 92.9 Million Acres When More Is Less Is Good BASF and Monsanto Partner for Trait Promotion OPEC: Biofuels Not a 'Magic Bullet' New Crop Protection Products in the Pipeline Leopold Center to Celebrate 20 Years with July 10-11 Events Immigration Bill Comes Up Short in Senate China Says Defends Safety of Food Exports Companies to Help Farmers Understand Ethanol Yield Potential Improve Hay Quality with Fork Governor Moves to Increase E85 Ethanol Use Mason City Experiencing a Boom in Biofuels Immigration Bill Faces Crucial Vote in Senate Summer Aerial Application on Corn Expected to Be High Harkin Wants to Reduce Direct Payments Companies Slow to Market Jointly Labeled Chemicals ISU Agronomy Professor Is New Wallace Chair USDA Awards Grants to Start Rural Iowa Businesses Corn Illustrated Weekly: Hybrid Differences Still Show After Irrigating Iowa Corn, Soybeans Are Looking Good Cargill Technology Wins EPA Award Tyson and Syntroleum Form Sythentic Fuels Company U.S. Beef Makes Strides in Korea, Japan Onset Offers New Smart Sensor Iowa's Corn Crop Rated 56% Good, 22% Excellent Soybean Rust Turns Up in Three States European Governments Stalled on GM Corn Talks SCN Females Now Apparent on Soybean Roots DDGS Can Be Pelletized Payment Limits Not Likely in Farm Bill, Peterson Says Legislation Would Let More Meat Cross State Lines ISU to Build 'Biofuel Farm' in Boone County No-till Continuous Corn Featured at Field Day CRP Contracts Expiring Sept. 30 Can Be Re-Enrolled Energy Bill Clears Senate Johanns Chides House on Farm Bill Action Eligible Groups Encouraged to Apply for Watershed Funds