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U.S. government paid $17 billion for weather-withered crops last year
2013-08-28 21:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Desiccated corn and sun-scorched soybeans have been in high supply lately - and we`re paying through the nose for them. The federal government forked out a record-breaking $17.3 billion last year to compensate farmers for weather-related crop losses - more than four times the annual average over the last decade. The losses were mostly caused by droughts, high temperatures, and hot winds - the sizzling harbingers of a climate in rapid flux. Could some of these costs have been avoided? The...
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How 2013 crops compare with 2009 crops
2013-08-27 17:02:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Could crops drastically improve from August forward similar to 2009?? Grain Market Viewpoint read more
Extreme Heat, Scarce Rainfall Could be Hard on Crops
2013-08-27 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - In this week's "Marker Preview" published in National Hog Farmer magazine, Steve Meyer writes: The old story goes that a particularly crotchity old man took one final swipe at his family by having the following epitaph engraved on his tombstone: "Well, I told you I wasn’t feeling well!"
Extreme Heat, Scarce Rainfall Could be Hard on Crops and Production Costs
2013-08-26 21:06:00| National Hog Farmer
By Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics, Inc., Adel, IA I feel a bit that way today as I watch the corn and soybean markets explode upward. Well, I told you it was dry! Dryness, of course, is not the only driver of the increases, so far, of 60-cents per bushel for soybean futures, 25-cents per bushel on corn and $15 per ton on soybean meal. read more
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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers
2013-08-23 22:30:16| Green Car Congress
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