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Sept. 3 Crop Progress: Heat progresses corn, soybean maturity, worsens condition
2013-09-03 22:48:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
The heat helped progress the corn crop in the last week. According to the most recent USDA Crop Progress report, many of the major corn-producing states are seeing corn reach maturity, and soybean pod set is nearing average rates. The condition of both crops worsened, however, in the last week. read more
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Crop insurance has strong support
2013-09-03 18:35:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Many farm operators across the Upper Midwest are facing some crop loss in 2013, due to late and prevented planting this past spring, and now from very hot, dry weather late in the growing season in some areas. There will undoubtedly be large financial losses to some farm operators in many areas, as well as with associated businesses, and in local communities. The drop in corn prices and soybean prices, compared to recent years, will also lead to further financial loss for affected farm operators. The financial losses to corn and soybean producers in 2013 will be somewhat mitigated for farm operators that carry Federal Crop Insurance coverage. Focus on Ag read more
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Sustainable Crop Production: Campden BRI Seminar
2013-09-03 13:18:00| Food Processing Technology
The call for sustainable intensification of crop production by the UK Ggovernment's food and farming report focused attention on the need for increasing productivity, while reducing the negative environmental impacts associated with overuse of resour
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Crop pests head polewards to flee heat
2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: A fungus is heading your way. The caterpillars are on the march. So are viruses and any number of insects and nematode worms, and since 1960 they have been shifting north and south at an average speed of 3 kilometres a year as the world warms, according to researchers at Exeter University in the UK. Sandra Gurr and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they looked at more than 26,000 observations of 612 well-known crop pests and had access to observations made much earlier, including...
Crop pests advancing with global warming
2013-09-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: Crop pests and diseases are moving towards the poles at about the same speed as warmer temperatures. The finding suggests that climate change is driving their relocation, and raises major concerns about food security. Climate change is expected to cause changes in the distributions of species around the world, with an overall shift away from the equator and towards the poles. Ecologists have already documented such a shift in many wild species, including some birds and insects The changing climate...
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