Food Prices

CropVillage 0085 Show Notes:

• POET says corncob-based cellulosic production should be underway by end of the year
• Food price crisis.. Is it? And, if so, why?
• Fungicide use in midwest this year a common question for agronomists

CropVillage 0067 Show Notes:

• WTO finds against US Cotton subsidies
• The economics of ethanol with Ohio State's Dr Matthew Roberts
• World food prices climbing 40% over the past year
• Spraying fungicides a paying proposition when disease causing weather is at hand 

CropVillage 0064 Show Notes:

• Special "Food AND Fuel" USDA conference with Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer lays out the economics on why they aren't mutually exclusive. Link to video and transcript.

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