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Remember the days when you applied additional units of nitrogen to account for leaching or denitrification? No longer—higher natural gas prices mean you need to hang on to every drop of nitrogen and its smart environmental stewardship.
Use the “What is Manure Worth?” a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, to determine the viability of using manure as fertilizer on your farm.
Use the following Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, courtesy of Ken Rulon, to plug in your costs to compare conventional tillage and no-till.
Use this graph to determine how far water will move upward in your soil.
Read and watch more about pilot ethanol plant in Vonore, Tenn., which will product cellulosic ethanol by using switchgrass.
Use these online tools and information to help maximize your nitrogen.
Corn cobs could soon be worth more, thanks to Project Liberty, an ethanol facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa that will produce 125 million gallons of ethanol per year, with 25 million gallons coming from corn cobs. See how it will happen.
The Association Equipment Manufacturers has released its annual forecast for U.S. agricultural machinery sales, providing an overall snapshot of manufacturers’ predictions for 2009 business.
Learn more about the Mitchells’ use of technology in their farming business.
Learn more about Monsanto Company’s Roundup Ready Performance Plus program.
Learn more about the corn harvest and collection equipment, along with Project Liberty, a Poet cellulosic ethanol facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa.
Learn more about the pests that can steal your yields.
It’s easy to point fingers at “the funds” for first causing a price bubble and then leaving ag markets...
Catch up on other articles from The Profit Puzzle, Top Producer’s series linking farm financial performance to strategic decision making.
We surveyed our readers to find out how they use marketing advisers and what kinds of mistakes they think they make when using marketing advisers.
Check out this extra information concerning the Top 25 events that have affected agriculture in the past 25 years.
Use these links to learn more on the info presented in Top Producer’'s Profit Puzzle series.
In an October survey, Top Producer asked readers how often they use various pricing tools.
See the results of a recent Top Producer survey, which dives into the many sins producers make in marketing their business.
Find more information about specialty entries available for seeding in 2009.
Read more about the seed industry’s quest to double yields.
View the 2008 and 2010 charts for expected income growth.