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Assessing how you stand financially

02/22/2012 3:53:51 PM

Do you know where your business stands financially? Completing year-end financial statements can help one evaluate a business, large or small, on the profitability and ability to cash flow through statement and ratio analysis. ... Full story.

2012 Alltech Symposium to envisage the world of 2050

02/22/2012 3:30:30 PM

The world population is growing at an incredible rate, which means that people and industries alike must explore innovative ideas in order to plan for the future. ... Full story.

USDA website supports America’s future farming generations

02/22/2012 2:59:13 PM

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and USDA's National Agricultural Library, in partnership with the American Farm Bureau Federation, have announced Start2farm.gov, a new online portal that helps provide assistance for beginning farmers and ranchers. ... Full story.

Rains green things up, but hay, grazing still in short supply

02/22/2012 2:40:45 PM

Most of the state received rain the third week of February, further greening up pastures and winter wheat, according to reports from Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel. ... Full story.

Corn and wheat futures post good gains on Wednesday

02/22/2012 2:39:38 PM

Corn futures were solidly higher on Wednesday. Technical buying and the unwinding of soybean/corn spreads ahead of the USDA annual outlook conference on Thursday and Friday of this week supported the market. ... Full story.

USDA report shows butter stocks up 60 percent

02/22/2012 2:07:42 PM

According to the USDA's latest Cold Storage report released on Wednesday afternoon, total natural cheese stocks in refrigerated warehouses on Jan. 31, 2012 were down 1 percent from the previous month and down 7 percent from a year ago. ... Full story.

Crop markets mixed on Wednesday

02/22/2012 10:57:54 AM

Corn futures are trading mixed at midday. Old-crop contracts are trading slightly higher and new-crop lower ahead of USDA’s annual outlook conference later this week. ... Full story.

Milk production, lack of bullish news pushes price declines

02/22/2012 7:57:33 AM

The consensus coming out of the Tulare dairy show from the producer community is that break-even levels, mostly from the West Coast, are around $17.00 to $17.25 and many are very nervous with nearby futures prices nearly $2.00/cwt. below that. Unfortunately, little end seems to be in sight to the falling dairy futures markets in the short- to medium-term. ... Full story.

High number of tornadoes expected in 2012

02/22/2012 7:30:00 AM

Don’t let the seemingly calm winter fool you - AccuWeather.com forecasters are expecting yet another above-average number of tornadoes this year. ... Full story.

Corn and soybeans to open lower on Wednesday

02/22/2012 7:15:00 AM

Corn futures are called 2 to 3 cents lower. Overnight trade at 6:45 am CT was 2 1/4 to 2 3/4 cents lower. ... Full story.

Blaze that killed more than 60 cows ruled accidental

02/22/2012 6:00:00 AM

There is no definitive cause of a fire that killed more than 60 cows last week on a southwest Michigan dairy. “We had the state fire marshall out there and he couldn’t get a cause on it; there was so much damage,” a spokesman for the Buchanan Township Fire Department told Dairy Herd Network. “So, we ruled it undetermined, accidental.” ... Full story.

U.S. farm-loan giant confident it will stay free of Dodd-Frank

02/21/2012 3:25:10 PM

The Farm Credit System, a giant government-linked lender to U.S. farmers and rural communities with $230 billion in assets, is confident it can stay mostly exempt from oversight by U.S. banking regulators despite bitter criticism by competing private banks, Farm Credit officials say. ... Full story.

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