http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com Top Stories RSS Feed Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:14:00 -0500 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=626 Conditions across much of the tri-state region have been summer-like over the past week, featuring daytime temperatures in the 90s, plenty of sunshine and clear skies, mild breezes, and only a few widely scattered thunderstorms. While the summer weather has for the most part been Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:43:51 -0500 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=625 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has received a letter signed by 75 members of Congress urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to allow limited planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa. The bipartisan group supports action by USDA that would allow farmers to plant seed that's being Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:39:48 -0500 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=624 I was giving a ranch tour to some city folk a few years back. As we drove along county roads and trail roads I pointed out crops and cattle and talked about what we do on the ranch and why. The four city folk - Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:38:27 -0500 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=623 A University of Wyoming technician here discussed his research July 8, detailing how he uses a radioactive alloy to emit high-energy neutrons that collide with hydrogen atoms. But Axel Garcia y Garcia is not a nuclear engineer or an advanced weapons designer. He's an irrigation Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:35:35 -0500 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=621 Officials from Platte Basin Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) and the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) met at the Monsanto Water Utilization Center near Gothenburg on Tuesday, July 27 for the first review of the Basin-wide plan for the Platte River Basin in Nebraska. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:33:02 -0500 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=617 Corn growers, the ethanol industry, and motoring public, and the rest of America are awaiting EPA's decision on whether to allow ethanol to expand beyond the 10 percent blending limit, and if so, how much. The proposal being studied by EPA would have the blending Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:24:58 -0500 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=616 High barometric pressure was the norm across much of the tri-state region over the last week, one part of a meteorological equation making for hot, dry weather and clear skies - perfect conditions for wheat harvest. Unfortunately, much of the winter wheat crop across the Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:05:50 -0500 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=615 Sutton resident and beef geneticist Ronnie D. Green has been named University of Nebraska Vice President and Harlan Vice Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Green, Global Technical Services senior director at Pfizer Animal Health, will begin Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:01:51 -0500 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=613 Farm leaders from numerous commodities joined House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) and Ways and Means Committee Member Earl Pomeroy (D-N.D.) on a sugarbeet farm in the Red River Valley on July 7 to tackle one question: "Is the safety net in the current Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:59:34 -0500 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=610 The once-popular ethanol industry is scrambling to hold onto billions of dollars in government subsidies, fighting an increasing public skepticism of the corn-based fuel and wariness from lawmakers who may divert the money to other priorities. The industry itself can't agree on how to persuade Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:54:06 -0500