Grain News

Fact checkers not kind to Bachmann's debate performance
MinnPost.com (blog)
But grain analysts say the frost damage may still show up in later calculations, after the harvest is complete.” Better business minds than mine will have to decide if this is good news. But Mia Lamar of the Dow Jones Wire says: “Huntington Bancshares ...

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USDA: Sept. frost did less crop damage than first thought
Minnesota Public Radio
But grain analysts say the frost damage may still show up in later calculations, after the harvest is complete. "I had customers in west-central and northwest Minnesota that had a drop of eight to 10 bushels per acre because of the frost," said Al ...
Harvest: Beans mostly binned; corn combining underwayGrand Forks Herald
Farmers bring in the harvestPost-Bulletin
Soybeans follow corn and wheat contracts lowerBismarck Farm & Ranch Guide
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Mn/DOT asks motorists, farm equipment operators to safely share the road ...
Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
St. Paul, MN — Motorists traveling on Minnesota highways this fall need to be aware of large farm equipment transporting crops to markets, grain elevators and processing plants, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT). ...

Potash, Mosaic Climb on Improved Fertilizer Price Outlook
BusinessWeek
Potash Corp. climbed 6.5 percent to C$49.44 in Toronto, while Plymouth, Minnesota-based Mosaic Co., the world's largest maker of phosphate fertilizer, rose 4.3 percent to $55.77 in New York. “The outlook for grain prices looks robust,” London-based ...

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Foreign Ag Service team visits area farms, West-Con
AG Week
The purpose of the visit was to understand all areas of US agricultural, develop relationships with farmers, visit farms, feature Minnesota's high-quality crops, and visit grain elevators and export facilities. Their tour of Western Consolidated began ...

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Tough quarter for Cargill
Calgary Herald
... Minnesota-based Cargill said Monday in a statement. Sales rose 24 per cent to $34.6 billion. Global economic uncertainty created commodity market "turbulence," limiting "prudent trading opportunities," said Cargill, the grain distributor that's the ...

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MnDOT asks motorists, farm equipment operators to share the road
Brainerd Daily Dispatch
BAXTER — Motorists traveling on Minnesota highways this fall need to be aware of large farm equipment transporting crops to markets, grain elevators and processing plants, the Minnesota Department of Transportation reported. ...

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2011 Yields Disappointing in Upper Midwest
Corn and Soybean Digest (blog)
Most of the corn being harvested in south-central Minnesota in the past two weeks has been at 13-17% moisture, meaning it can go directly to grain bins without additional drying, or can be hauled to grain purchasers with very little price dockage for ...

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US District Court: Farmer admits he destroyed bird eggs
Pioneer Press
But Staloch's lawyer contends the 59-year-old Minnesota Lake grain farmer did it out of frustration with tens of thousands of dollars in pelican-related damage he had already suffered and the prospect of more to come. In a trial scheduled for next ...

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United South Central FFAer is national Star Farmer finalist
Agri News
He sends text messages to lenders, regularly checks grain markets and gets updates from the farm. On weekends, he comes home to move hogs, vaccinate hogs and do whatever else needs doing. He doesn't take breaks, Eilertson said. ...

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ADM Donates $125000 to Living Lands & Waters
MarketWatch (press release)
"A cleaner Mississippi River benefits communities up and down the river, from Minnesota to Louisiana, and those who enjoy recreational activities on the water. It's also vitally important for ADM because we depend upon the river to transport grain from ...

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Fewer women participate in WIC program
St. Cloud Times
In 2009, changes to the WIC program gave participants access to a wider variety of healthful foods, including fresh fruits and vegetables, whole-grain bread and rice, tofu and jars of baby food. The changes reflected current nutritional research, ...

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Team effort in play for farmers
Marshall Independent
"Granted we have good grain prices, but if you look at land prices or land rent, seed and fertilizer has gone up, so the volatility becomes so much greater." The volatility of the markets makes it a necessity for farmers to know where they're at with ...

Modified Grain Stocks Report Offers a Golden Opportunity
National Hog Farmer
If your cost structure is close to that represented by the ISU estimates and you can realize the average Iowa-Minnesota basis of the past five years, you could have locked in profits of $13.22/head for all hogs sold in 2012 at Friday's closing corn, ...

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Minnesota farmers wrestle with one consequence of rising land values: higher ...
Pioneer Press
The higher prices, though, reflect good times for many Minnesota farmers. Compared with 2009, median net farm income in 2010 soared 260 percent to nearly $120000, thanks to a rebound in the livestock sector and robust grain prices, according to a ...

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Soybean stocks rise 69 percent
Hutchinson Leader
by Matt McMillan The Minnesota September 1 Grain Stocks Survey estimated SOYBEANS stored in all positions at 25.2 million bushels, up 69 percent from a year earlier, according to the US Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics ...

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Grain Markets Decline Sharply
Corn and Soybean Digest (blog)
Cash grain prices in Lake Crystal, MN, on Sept. 23 were $5.92/bu. for corn and $11.64 for soybeans, which are still very good harvesttime grain prices compared to recent years; however, theses prices are well below cash grain prices a few weeks ago. ...

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Upper Midwest wheat crop smaller than last year
BusinessWeek
... though officials expect the grain to be of better protein quality. Wet conditions in the spring and excessive heat and humidity in the summer all worked against wheat yields in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana, Agweek reported. ...

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Farmer charged in protected birds' deaths
UPI.com
16 (UPI) -- A Minnesota farmer was charged with annihilating a pelican colony that is a protected species by killing hundreds of chicks, police said. Craig L. Staloch, 59, a grain farmer near Minnesota Lake, was charged in federal court in Minneapolis ...
Minn. farmer charged with killing hundreds of pelican chicks, a protected speciesMinneapolis Star Tribune

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