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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.

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.

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.

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.