http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=371 When corn futures prices hit $7.88 in July, some analysts suggested that $7 might be the new plateau for corn, and North Dakota Ag Economist Harlan Hughes told the 2008 High Plains Ranch Practicum class that he expected $6-plus corn prices to persist for a Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:06:25 -0600 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=369 By Susanne Stahl DTN staff reporter Many fertilizer dealers are in a bind. Falling crop nutrient prices, along with a prolonged harvest that pushed fall applications back 50 percent to 60 percent of normal in some areas, has left them stocked with higher-priced inventory that Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:06:03 -0600 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=370 Those who remember the Blizzard of ’49 tell a similar story of how it began. A warm January morning with temps in the 50’s, a light breeze becoming stronger throughout the morning, clouds building on the west horizon. In the early afternoon temperatures plunged, the Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:05:33 -0600 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=365 The 2008 corn harvest, the latest since 1992, went well into December and corn piles like this one south of Gering, Neb., appeared across the region. Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:58:45 -0600 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=364 One of the top themes of the 2008 election cycle was energy independence, and each major presidential candidate presented a plan to achieve that goal. The McCain and Obama plans were remarkably similar, with each candidate emphasizing the need to replace petroleum-based fuels with so-called Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:57:58 -0600 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=363 Internet access to data representing the vital signs of key watersheds could be among the eventual benefits from an ARS program that’s now being expanded. A Web-based data system developed by a team of ARS researchers, data managers and information-technology staff, the program compiles, documents Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:57:37 -0600 http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php http://www.thebusinessfarmer.com/V2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=362 Last week the Des Moines Register was only one of a score of corn-belt newspapers reporting in-depth on the precarious financial situation of the nation’s ethanol industry. The Register’s lead read, “Experience is said to be a hard teacher, and the ethanol industry has learned Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:56:36 -0600