Farm Bill

CropVillage 0078 Show Notes:

• Special presentation reviewing ACRE and SURE program components of new farm bill

CropVillage 0072a Show Notes:

• Special presentation featuring Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer discussion of the 2008 Farm Bill implementation

CropVillage 0065 Show Notes:

• Farm Bill Fundamentals... ACRE Program (Average Crop Revenue Election) with K State's Risk Management Specialist Art Barnaby
• Tax implications in the new legislation... a head's up from the AFBF
• Talking with Pioneer's Growing Point webmeister, Jeff Tomage.  Why this site's a destination for all crop

CropVillage 0063 Show Notes:

• Farm Bill Finals! Waiting for the president's signature or veto... K State's Troy Dumler looks at the details
• Hold off on that move to shorter season hybrids
  
• Christine McKraken of Cleveland Research looks at agriculture on behalf of big food clients
• New technology... No-til observations from space with the Ag Research Service

CropVillage 0059 Show Notes:

• Wrapping up a Farm Bill
• Time-short due to cool wet spring, side-dress your nitrogen to find a few days
• Black Cutworm moths on the move... and a concern for Armyworm pops in the midwest
• Food price forecast means more questions for grain growers
• Looking at the pricing complex... a complex issue

CropVillage 0058 Show Notes:

• Farm Bill update from multiple sources
• Harvesting phosphorus from poultry manure for transportation to areas short 'P'
• La Nina responsible for planting delays and possible yield supression 

CropVillage 0057 Show Notes:

• Rice shipments halted out of Brazil.  Seems to be a crisis without a cause but we take a look at rice issues abroad and in the U.S.
• Looks like the western snow pack is at a multi-year high.  Good news for grains to the west
• Risk and the farm bill discussions.  KSU's Art Barnaby looks at producer alternatives in today's marketplace 

CropVillage 0056 Show Notes:

• President requests one year farm bill extension to let producers get on with their producing
• Does former Ag Sec Johanns still adhere to his biofuels policy and what do the E.U. and Brazil think about it?
• Late wheat nitrogen topdressing may still provide value
  
• Soybean aphid resistance meeting resistance... from the aphids
  

CropVillage 0047 Show Notes:

• Cellulosic ethanol development still on the drawing board in spite of administration's interests and goals
  
• Iowa farm poll shows high interest in alternative energy no matter what the source
• Farm Bill update looks at a long list of wrinkles to iron out over the recess

CropVillage 0043 Show Notes:

• Farm Bill update from Ag Secretary Schafer
• Iowa State's CARD says demand is in the driver's seat
• How to keep nitrogen in place and maximize utilization
• Payoff for crop insurance calculator