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Farms.com Corn Report: Planting Tips For Producing High Corn Yields. Tim Welbanks, Agronomy Lead with Maizex Seeds provides some tips farmers should consider when planting the corn crop to achieve maximum yields. Tim shares some of thoughts on planting depth, fertility programs, tillage and pest control programs and uses a practical example followed by Maizex Seeds customers George and Doug Skinner who farm near Mt Brydges, Ontario.
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GRAND FORKS – North Dakota corn growers are planning a $1 billion nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing plant to be built near here in rural Grand Forks County.
Gov. Jack Dalrymple and Grand Forks Mayor Mike Brown will make a formal announcement today.
The plant will produce nitrogen fertilizer by converting gas currently being flared from oil wells in western North Dakota, according to Tom Lilja, president of the North Dakota Corn Growers Association. Other details will be released during today’s news conference.
The facility, which has been estimated to cost between $1 billion and
$1.5 billion, could supply fertilizer for up to 12 percent of corn and wheat acreage in North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota, Lilja said last summer, when the group initially announced plans to build a plant somewhere in North Dakota.
Read more at Inforum
New corn hybrids take up more nitrogen than older plant varieties after the crucial flowering stage. Amount of available N affects take up of phosphorus, potassium, sulfur.
A historical analysis of corn research shows that new hybrids are taking up more nitrogen than older plant varieties after the crucial flowering stage – a clue as to how plant scientists will need to adapt plants to increase yields.
Tony Vyn, a professor of agronomy, and Ignacio Ciampitti, a postdoctoral research associate, are studying the timing of nutrient uptake in corn and how that process affects yield. They found that modern hybrids (post-1990) took up 27% more total N from the soil after flowering than pre-1990 corn plants. In fact, N uptake after flowering in post-1990 hybrids averaged 56% of the total grain N at the end of the season.
Read more at Corn and Soybean Digest
Ghana.gov.gh Government Online Portal offers a range of information and services, including comprehensive directories with contacts for Parliament, the President, cabinet ministers, deputy ministers and national departments.
The Ministry of Food and Agricultural (MoFA) has announced fertilizer and seed subsidy for the 2013 farming season at a press briefing in Accra yesterday.
Mr Clement Kofi Humado, Minister for Food Agriculture, who addressed the press, said the Ministry, through a careful consideration, came up with selling prices of the various types of fertilizers and seeds for the farming season to ensure farmers got high yield.
The announcement, which takes effect from Tuesday, April 16, 2013, listed the fertilizers and seeds cost components.
A 50 kilogram bag of compound fertilizer of all types would cost 51 Ghana cedis while urea would cost 50 Ghana cedis for a 50 kilogram bag, but 50 kilogram bag of sulphate of ammonia would be sold at 44 Ghana cedis.
The seed price of 45 kilogram bag of maize would be sold at 45 Ghana cedis and a 50 kilogram bag of rice seed would be sold at 35 Ghana cedis while a 45 kilogram bag of soya bean would be sold at 45 Ghana cedis.
Read more at Ghana.gov
India - Drought lays waste to Kerala’s lush farms. Southern India is eagerly awaiting monsoon rains which are due in the next few weeks.
For many suffering through a drought, they can’t come soon enough.
Kerala’s lush and green nature is suffering its worst drought in nearly twenty years - and its affecting crops.
Al Jazeera’s Sohail Rahman reports from Kerala, India.
Louisiana US - An unexpected dip in temperature is throwing many rice farmers for a loop. LSU AgCenter Correspondent Tobie Blanchard tells us how colder temperatures are affecting this year’s crop.
A two-week healthy-cocoa campaign by YARA Ghana has been launched at Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality of the Central Region.
The annual training course includes workshops, farmer forums, radio talk-shows, and will focus on educating over 2,400 cocoa farmers in 16 districts on best farm-practices including proper fertilizer application for improved cocoa yield in the country. Unveiling the training programme, YARA Ghana Retail Sales Manager Mr. Henry Otoo-Mensah said the increased use of fertilizer combined with proper farm management practices will push Ghana’s cocoa production upward.
He stressed that YARA Ghana understands the needs of farmers with the introduction of the Nitrabor and Asaasewura fertilizers to help improve cocoa yields, translating into more income for them. “The Asaasewura and Nitrabor fertilizers have the potential to significantly reduce the risk of cocoa plants to the black pod disease and any other stress that threatens cocoa growth and production.
Read more at GhanaWeb
Britain will be forced to become a net importer of wheat for the first time in a decade this year, after the recent bitter weather devastated crops.
A disastrous 12-month cycle of poor weather has ruined harvests across the UK, costing farmers an estimated £500m, the chief economist of the National Farmers Union (NFU) warned.
The conditions mean Britain – traditionally a significant net exporter of wheat – will have to boost imports by more than a million tonnes.
While the effect on the price of a loaf of bread is expected to be minimal, the dismal harvests will increase the country’s reliance on the secretive trading firms which dominate the international grain market.
The crop damage deals a further blow to Britain’s beleaguered farming industry, which is already reeling from a spate of recent livestock deaths due to the cold weather. To make matters worse, the weather has made planting new crops more difficult and damaged many of the seeds that have been sown in recent weeks.
Read more at The Independent
LONDON, April 3, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Global food demand has been rising on the back of increasing population and rising income levels in emerging countries. Agricultural chemicals companies such as Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. POT +0.41% , Mosaic Co. MOS +0.83% , CF Industries Holdings Inc.CF +0.70% , and Intrepid Potash Inc. IPI -0.33% have benefited immensely over the past decade from this trend. As farmers look to improve yields to meet rising demand, the outlook for agricultural chemicals companies remains bullish. On Tuesday, though, shares of all four companies struggled as the Basic Materials sector posted significant losses despite a rally in the broad market. StockCall has released full comprehensive research on POT, MOS, CF, and IPI and these free technical analyses can be downloaded by signing up at
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Shares of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. struggled in trading on Tuesday. The stock fell to an intra-day low of $39.21 before finishing the day 0.76% lower at $39.34. Potash Corp.’s shares have struggled so far in 2013. Year-to-date, the stock has fallen more than 2.80%, even as the S&P 500 has posted gains of more than 10% and is trading close to an all-time high level. The agricultural chemicals company’s shares have been struggling to break through $40 resistance level. The stock’s MACD is currently trading below the signal line and the zero-line, which is a bearish signal. Free technical analysis on POT available by signing up at
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Read more at Market Watch
EU greening measures reducing food production - Stuart Agnew MEP
Published on 12 Mar 2013
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• European Parliament, Strasbourg, 12 March 2013
• Speaker: Stuart Agnew MEP, UKIP (Eastern Counties), Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) Group -http://www.stuartagnewmep.co.uk
• Joint debate: Reform of the CAP (Rule 70a)
It’s a common problem for Myanmar’s farmers - corrupt businessmen with military connections stealing their land. With little legal protection, and the threat of violence, there’s not much they can do to stop it. But now, a commission is investigating the issue - and has started looking at hundreds of cases. Our correspondent Wayne Hay has more from Thilawa.
John Gibbons on global agribusiness & the supply-demand imbalance at Future Farm Americas John Gibbons, President of Olam Americas, gave a talk at last year’s Future Farm Americas titled “Keynote address: From ABCD to NOW: leading the way in global agribusiness & combating the supply-demand imbalance”.
Future Farm Americas is the leading technology and innovation event for agribusiness and suppliers. Farming companies, agribusiness, investors and technology providers will come together to see the latest products and new advances in ‘Smart’ farming.
For more information, go to www.terrapinn.com/farmamericas. Or, check out our blog at blogs.terrapinn.com/total-asset for up to date information on the agribusiness sector.
Interviews with agriculture and farming experts at the Agriculture Investment Summit Americas
MOGA: Punjab deputy chief minister and Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal has accused the UPA government’s proposed move to cut fertilizer subsidy by 15 percent from next fiscal year.
Sukhbir said SAD would not allow further cut in fertilizer subsidy till minimum support price of agricultural produce was not linked with the price index as per the recommendations of Swaminathan commission.
He also questioned the silence of Punjab Congress on this crucial issue.
Addressing gatherings in the favour of SAD-BJP candidate Joginder Pal Jain at villages Darapur, Chotian Kalan, Chotian Khurd and Budh Singh Wala, the SAD president said the agriculture sector the world over was highly subsidized but here in India the UPA government was bent upon squeezing even the last drop of blood of peasantry with series of anti-farmer measures.
Read more at The Times of India
Over 20 farmer Cooperative representatives from selected farming blocks in Samfya district are protesting against the PF government’s Fertilizer Input Support Programme (FISP).
The farmers today stormed ZANIS offices in Samfya complaining that their crops under the 2012/2013 farming season have failed to grow well due to delayed inputs and alleged inconsistent distribution mechanism used.
Patrick Kaoma a Camp Agriculture Committee Chairperson for the 18 Cooperative farming groups and clubs of Bangweulu Central Farming Block , flanked by George Mwape a trustee of 16 cooperative groups and clubs in Mano Block said a lot of farmers in their entities had experienced a delay of Urea and some D Compound fertilizer which was coming in trickles.
Another farmer representative, Boniface Chilufya, Vice Chairperson of Mwenshilungu farm Block said the situation was worsened by long distances farmers were forced to cover in order to access to the inputs.
Mr Chilufya said the fertilizer inflows’ pace was disheartening and proving to be an extremely costly venture on the part of a peasant farmer as they indefinitely had to wait or gamble to come to the boma in a bid not to be left out of the share of packs they had already paid for.
Read more at Zambia Reports
