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Wheat and Minor Oilseeds See Most Significant Changes in Marketing Loan Rates (6/14/02) County level commodity loan rates for the 2002 crop wheat are differentiated by classes of wheat. For North Dakota that means separate loan rates for hard red spring, hard amber durum and hard red winter wheat. Previously there has been a single loan rate that applied to all classes, says farm management specialist Dwight Aakre. MORE Identity Theft, Don’t Let It Happen To You (6/14/02) Can you completely prevent identity theft from occurring? MORE Be Aware of Internet Fraud (6/14/02) Internet fraud is a danger to Internet users. MORE
Manage Pesticide Risk by Controlling Exposure (6/13/02) As the season for applying agricultural chemicals begins, farmers and other applicators should check and update their personal safety equipment, says a North Dakota State University Agriculture Safety Specialist. MORE Assess Flooded Crops Carefully, NDSU Agronomist Advises (6/13/02) Recent heavy rains in eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota will result in substantial crop damage and losses. How serious will the damage be? Prolonged soil saturation definitely affects crop growth and yield, but the extent of the injury will depend on the type of crop, growth stage, duration of the flooding and the air and water temperatures at the time of ponding, says agronomist Duane Berglund. MORE AUDIO 1 AUDIO 2 AUDIO 3 NDSU Economist Outlines Farm Bill’s Counter Cyclical Payment Calculation (6/11/02) The counter-cyclical payments of the new farm bill are similar to the deficiency payments producers received under the 1990 farm bills, but there are important differences, according to farm management specialist Dwight Aakre. MORE Time of Harvest Is Critical in Minimizing Hay Cost (6/10/02) Beef producers can reduce the cost of livestock feed from harvested forages by cutting plants at the optimum growth stage, says range scientist Lee Manske. Cutting forages at the growth stage when the greatest amount of nutrients can be captured per acre reduces the costs of nutrients and in turn the costs of livestock feed. MORE Large Proportion of North Dakota’s New Housing Continues to be Multi-Family Units (6/07/02) North Dakota had 2,130 housing units authorized by building permits for construction in 2000. Of these newly-authorized housing units, 1,259, or nearly 60 percent, were single-family homes or one-unit structures. MORE BeefTalk: June Is Time to Shift Into Neutral Before the Next Crunch Time (6/13/02) Beef specialist Kris Ringwall reflects on the neutral periods in the beef business that reward the senses with all those intangible feelings that make life what it is. MORE Prairie Fare: Is It Done Yet? (6/13/02) You can’t judge a burger by it’s color, says food and nutrition specialist Julie Garden-Robinson. They only way to truly know if it’s cooked to safe perfection is with a meat thermometer. She also offers a recipe for Sweet and Sour Meatloaf. MORE Plains Folk: Please stop by later for Tom Isern's column. Hortiscope (6/13/02) Ron Smith answers readers' questions about the world of plants and gardening. MORE Market Advisor: USDA Ending Stock Projections Close to Trade Expectations (6/14/02) USDA released its latest supply and demand report on June 12. Relative to trade expectations, ending stocks of all wheat were just above the trade range of expectations, corn was well above and soybeans were nearly equal to the average of expectations. MORE |
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