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Sugar Crop Tumbling to Four-Year Low in India May Cut Glut
2014-02-19 08:05:15| Sugar Industry News
Sugar output in India, the largest producer after Brazil, may tumble to the lowest in four years after excessive rains in the biggest growing region cut yields and some farmers diverted the crop to make a local sweetener. Shares of producers climbed in Mumbai.
2014 crop insurance decisions
2014-02-19 02:47:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Producers have several crop insurance policy options to choose from, including yield protection (YP) policies and revenue protection (RP and RPE) policies, as well as several other group insurance policy options. There are also decisions with using enterprise units versus optional units, and whether or not to take advantage of the trend adjusted APH yields for 2014. Focus on Ag read more
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Houma man dedicated career to improve sugar crop
2014-02-18 08:32:13| Sugar Industry News
When Richard Breaux graduated from LSU in 1953 with a doctorate in agronomy, the sugar cane industry was facing a serious problem: Sugar cane research was struggling to bring about the type of improvements that farmers needed to stay competitive and increase their profits.
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VIDEO: Boosting crop yields in Tanzania
2014-02-16 07:43:46| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Lucy Hooker looks at how a G8 initiative to boost crop yields is working in Tanzania.
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Farmer alters crop rotation, drainage to cut weather extreme risks
2014-02-07 21:34:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Opts out of continuous corn The combination of weather extremes and disease and insect pressure have been especially hard on continuous corn, which took a 40-bushel per acre yield hit in 2010, 2011 and 2012 compared to rotated corn. For me the answer was to go back to a 50:50 corn-bean rotation, says Gary Niemeyer. It had been 85:15. read more
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