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CTF systems rely on matching the width of equipment to restrict travel to a few tramways leaving the rest of the field uncompacted.
Crops, Equipment

The straight and narrow of CTF

Tramline farming can limit compaction, reduce costs, increase production and improve soil health

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Adam Gurr heard of controlled traffic farming (CTF) about 15 years ago and dismissed it at first. He felt living in a freeze/thaw climate like ours would break up any soil compaction in his fields so it wasn’t necessary here. Still, when he looked closely at crop growth on the previous year’s combine tracks the
Markets, News

Argentina farmers warn fuel shortage could hamper harvest

Issue comes as harvest is ongoing and truck traffic is at its annual peak

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Reuters – Argentine grains farmers warned April 1 about diesel shortages potentially hitting the ongoing harvest of soybeans and corn, the South American country’s two main crops. Argentina is the world’s largest exporter of soybean oil and meal, and the No. 2 exporter of corn. Harvesting of both crops, which have already been hit by drought and
Markets

U.S. considers adding more ethanol to gasoline to lower pump prices

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Reuters – The Biden administration is considering temporarily removing restrictions on summer sales of higher-ethanol gasoline blends as a way to lower fuel costs for U.S. consumers, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The review comes as President Joe Biden seeks to tame soaring pump prices, which hit a record this month following
The scale of economic sanctions imposed on Russia since its invasion of Ukraine are unprecedented.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Battered but not broken

How global trade is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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Russia’s first McDonald’s opened in 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a potent symbol that the Cold War was ending and a great ideological wound healing. Now every McDonald’s in Russia is closed, as nations and corporations reduce, suspend or sever ties in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
CBOT July 2022 wheat (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, orange and dark green lines). (Barchart)
Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat, soybeans firm on tighter stocks

Corn firm, ending stocks unchanged

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat, corn and soybean futures firmed on Friday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) assessed global supply and demand, reflecting the impact that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had on Black Sea exports. Grain prices remained underpinned by Russia’s six-week-old invasion, which has stalled large amounts of Ukrainian exports
The U.S. Department of Agriculture pegged 2022 U.S. corn plantings at 89.49 million acres based largely on producer surveys conducted in the first half of March.
Op/Ed, Opinion

Analysts blow U.S. corn acreage predictions again

The trade could redeem itself in June when the next estimates drop

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Reuters – U.S. planting intentions kept their unpredictable reputation alive March 30, as corn acres fell outside the range of analyst estimates for a fourth consecutive year. The trade reversed its overestimation trend on soybean area, but the miss was still substantial. Market participants have recently come a little closer to the reported corn and

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