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July 29 Crop Progress: Corn Starting to Dough, Soybeans Setting Pods
2013-07-30 22:20:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Nearly three-quarters of the overall corn crop has started silking, and 8% of the overall crop has reached dough stage. Over half of the overall soybean crop is blooming, at 65%, 9 points behind the five-year average. Twenty percent of the overall crop is setting pods. read more
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Crop Conditions Hold Steady
2013-07-30 15:30:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture In the top 18 states for corn and soybean production, crop conditions are holding steady with solid advances being made in crop maturity, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) report for July 29. Corn condition at 46% good and 17% excellent duplicated last week’s rating. However, in states like Kansas, only 29% of the crop was rated as good and just 4% was listed as excellent. read more
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Demand Prospects for Old Crop and New Crop Soybeans
2013-07-30 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The recent sharp break in old crop soybean prices and basis indicates that the market believes that supplies will be fully adequate until the harvest of the new crop begins in six or seven weeks. For that to be the case, the domestic crush in July and August would have to be down sharply from the level of crush last year and sharply below the pace in June of this year.
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RETAINING THE CALF CROP ADDS VALUE TO INDUSTRY
2013-07-25 18:36:19| Cattle Today
Cattlemen wage their own chess game with the industry every day. Planning strategies to counteract what's happening with the weather, market demand or increasing costs. No year is the same and cattlemen must constantly be adjusting to keep profit margins.
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Mapping of Oil Palm Genome Could Boost Productivity of Key Crop, Study Says
2013-07-25 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Scientists say they have identified the gene responsible for the yield of oil palm crops, a discovery that could boost the productivity of the worlds top source of vegetable oil and help reduce the size of oil palm plantations in the worlds tropical regions. Writing in the journal Nature, Malaysian and U.S. researchers describe the mapping of the genome of the oil palm, whose products are used in everything from food to cosmetics to biofuels. According to the scientists, the so-called shell gene...
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