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USDA: Despite late start, record corn crop likely

May 10, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

DES MOINES, Iowa The wet start to the corn planting season is expected to reduce the amount each acre produces this year, but farmers are planting so much of the crop that they’re still likely to bring in a record amount. Continue Reading

Wet spring brings troubling start to corn planting

May 7, 2013 in The Daily Republic

In the biggest corn-producing state, Iowa, only 8 percent of the corn crop is in the ground, down from 62 percent the same time last year.
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Wet spring brings troubling start to corn planting nationwide

May 7, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

ST. LOUIS John Reifsteck looks out at his muddy 1,800-acre central Illinois farm and wonders when he’ll get to plant. Continue Reading

Poet restarts production at Missouri plant

April 24, 2013 in The Daily Republic

The Sioux Falls-based company during the downtime made about $14 million in upgrades, including adding a more efficient evaporator, a new administration building and scale house and a new control system.
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LETTER: Wheat industry gave up crop’s ‘king’ status

April 20, 2013 in The Daily Republic

The corn industry was willing to accept biotechnology while wheat was not and the results couldn’t be more telling.
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GUEBERT: Land prices reach nutty levels

April 4, 2013 in The Daily Republic

How long will this all last? About 10 minutes longer than the end of mandated ethanol use.
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King wheat? Wheat on the Northern Plains continues to decline as interest in corn and soybeans is strong again this spring

April 1, 2013 in The Dickinson Press

GRAND FORKS Wheat is a big part of Brian O’Toole’s life. The Crystal, N.D., farmer grows it, handles it in his family seed business and promotes it as a member of U.S. Wheat Associates, which develops export markets for the crop. Continue Reading

Wheat losing its ‘king’ status on Northern Plains

April 1, 2013 in The Daily Republic

Farmers in the Dakotas increasingly prefer corn and soybeans to wheat because of greater potential for profit.
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USDA: Highest corn acreage since 1936 expected

March 29, 2013 in The Daily Republic

Acreage in some states hit hardest by last year’s drought retreated, while Southern states such as Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas are shifting cotton acres to corn.
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USDA releases prospective spring planting for SD

March 28, 2013 in The Daily Republic

SIOUX FALLS (AP) Producers in South Dakota intend to plant 250,000 less acres of corn in 2013.
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