Ohio farmers surveyed March 1 reported they would be planting more corn this year, taking land from soybean, winter wheat, oat, barley and hay production. Hay producers expect to harvest 1.15 million acres, down 5 percent. Here's what the National Agricultural Statistics Service office in Reynoldsburg found:

n Corn after corn takes 40 to 60 more pounds of nitrogen than corn after soybeans. n There is a reduction in yield when corn follows corn instead of soybeans. n Shifting to more corn will likely add to the time needed for planting, and that can push more acres of corn outside of the optimum planting window. n There is added risk for insect and disease problems with corn after corn, so additional pesticides and/or stacked-trait resistant hybrids may be needed. n At harvest, trucking, drying...

Due to high corn prices, continuous corn (corn crop after corn crop) is increasing, rather than rotation of nitrogen fixing (fertilizer) and erosion control sod crops with corn. The productions of ethanol requires significant energy inputs to grow, harvest, transport, and process the corn and other grains required by the industry. But with high corn prices, farmers are now asking the Agricultural Department to release them from these contracts so they can plant corn on these low-producing,...

Of the town's total agricultural land area of 24,034 hectares, 61 percent is being utilized for corn production, only 28 percent for palay farming and 11 percent for high value crops. Corn has played, and will continue to play, an important role in sustaining our local economy as well as the country's corn industry," said Mayor Isidro Janita. And signs are not around that the town will cease to be a major agricultural producer, with officials banking on the decades-old corn industry to...

In Chicago, corn, soybeans, wheat and ethanol were all trading lower. Cocoa and frozen concentrated orange juice were stronger, but coffee, cotton and sugar were falling. Energy prices were on the decline Monday in New York, while metals were mixed. Investor Relations . Privacy Policy . Terms of Use . Conflicts Policy . Corrections . Internet Index . Advertise . FAQ . Logout Site Map . Who's Who . Reader Feedback . Employment . Customer Service . Contact Us Subscribe to our RSS Feed...

A hard freeze destroyed most of the wheat crop in the area and damaged a large portion of the corn. While most of the wheat across north Alabama appears to be lost, a good portion of the corn crop could actually have survived because of the severe drought in the weeks before the freeze. Bishop said that he's never seen a freeze damage so many crops. An extension office survey taken earlier in the year showed a 30 percent decline in the amount of cotton being planted this year, while the...

If we were to meet that goal, according to some reports, all of the nation s corn crop would have to go into the production of ethanol and a lot of the soybean crop would have to go into biodiesel as well. The price of basic food items are beginning to rise because of the increased price of corn all stemmed by the world s voracious appetite for oil and gasoline. In this country that means ethanol, and because of a few confused notions, most people believe it will only come from corn. Cane...

Also, the weekly export inspections release came out this morning and inspected corn shipments for last week came in at 29. It's obviously no surprise that we going to get the crop planted, but there are several questions that remain surrounding weather developments, acres, yield prospects, etc And only time is going to reveal the answers to these questions. This seems to be just another reminder on how US demand is expected to slump, as the South American crop comes on-line and begins to...

In any case, according to Wall Street Journal sources, employing ethanol to reduce greenhouse gasses is fantastically inefficient, and costs probably as much as 16 times the optimal abatement cost for removing a ton of carbon from the atmosphere (January 27) When corn ethanol is burned, the co2 released is composed of carbon that was already pulled out of the atmosphere by the corn plant. In any case, according to Wall Street Journal sources, employing ethanol to reduce greenhouse gasses...