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USDA: Record Corn Crop is Still Within Reach
2013-05-10 23:12:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: American Farm Bureau Federation The May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report released today by the Agriculture Department shows that a record corn crop is still reachable despite a slow start to planting season, according to American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) analysts. The report forecasts a corn yield of 158 bushels per acre, implying a record crop of 14.14 billion bushels, up 3.36 billion bushels from 2012 when much of the nation was overtaken by severe drought. The current record corn crop was produced in 2009 at 13.09 billion bushels. read more
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Linking Conservation Compliance and Crop Insurance
2013-05-08 17:38:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: American Farm Bureau Federation The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) has joined with a diverse group of 44 conservation, environmental, crop insurance and agricultural organizations in distributing a position paper that outlines a common-sense compromise to linking conservation compliance and crop insurance premium assistance and to opposing means testing, payment limitations or premium subsidy reductions for the crop insurance program. read more
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May 6, 2013 Crop Progress Report: Corn 12% Planted, Soybean Planting Started
2013-05-07 21:08:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Corn planting progressed a bit last week, moving up 7 points from the week before to 12% planted overall. The five-year average is 47% planted, and last year the overall corn planting progress was 69% at this time. North Carolina and Texas have the most corn in the ground at 89% and 70% completed so far, and slightly behind the five-year averages for each state. read more
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May 6, 2013 Crop Progress Report: Corn 12% Planted, Soybean Planting Started
2013-05-07 21:08:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Corn planting progressed a bit last week, moving up 7 points from the week before to 12% planted overall. The five-year average is 47% planted, and last year the overall corn planting progress was 69% at this time. North Carolina and Texas have the most corn in the ground at 89% and 70% completed so far, and slightly behind the five-year averages for each state. read more
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US crop insurance shields farmers from drought
2013-05-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: When dry weather destroyed Leonard McKissick's soybeans last year, US government-backed insurance paid him $US40,000, the bulk of his loss. Across the Arkansas Delta this spring, farmers such as McKissick are sowing fields that suffered the worst drought in more than half a century. Even though crops may fail again, landowners are shielded by taxpayers from the full burden of their bad bets. Drought helped drive the cost of crop insurance to a record $US17.2 billion, the US Department of Agriculture...
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