crop reports

CropVillage 0071 Show Notes:

• USDA recontacting farmers in flooded areas to update next crop report
• Serious soil issue... wet weather and disease concerns coincide
• Grains trading on weather and a bit of good news as China sharply curtails its petroleum subsidies
• Bean Leaf Beetle agile, mobile and reproducing infantiles
• Link to the Pro Farmer Leading Edge Conference brochure, July 13-15 in Des Moines.

CropVillage 0029 Show Notes:

• Review of today's USDA reports with Mike Woolverton
  
• Time to sell... but what to plant?
• Cyst nematode resistance becoming a problem. Working on it at the Univ of IL
• Easing into agriculture. Several efforts underway to enable newcomers to enter the fields
• Communicating with that next generation with Don Tyler