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Talking Crops

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Episodes

12 episodes

Recently the crop insurance program has become the target of federal budget cuts. In this podcast University of Nebraska's Market Journal in...

00:06:45Dec 1, 2015

Having a farmland lease agreement based on a handshake may be an easy way to avoid paperwork, but not having a written agreement can be a su...

00:18:51Nov 20, 2015

Budgeting for next year is going to be tight for many farmers due to low commodity prices and high cash rents. Some economists have even sug...

00:05:41Nov 18, 2015

Boom bust cycles had an impact on agriculture markets in both the 1980s and 70s. Current economic indications may point to another bust ahea...

00:05:51Nov 17, 2015

This episode of Talking Crops comes from "Landlords and the cash rent issue" by Harwood D. Schaffer & Daryll E. Ray who are Economists at th...

00:04:14Nov 10, 2015

Talking Crops: Cutting Budgets by $100 an Acre - Gary Schnitkey by AgFax

00:12:36Oct 19, 2015

When you think about growing rice, Arkansas or California may come to mind. For Marquette University Associate Professor Michael Schläppi, h...

00:13:10Sep 16, 2015

There are still a few weeks left before grain sorghum is harvested and for some farmers sugarcane aphids may be posing a threat to yields. I...

00:11:57Aug 26, 2015

The rise of the middle class in China has caused the cost of labor to increase. As a response, Chinese cotton production leaders have explor...

00:27:42Aug 19, 2015

Managing Palmer pigweed in cotton can be tough, especially if they escaped residual herbicides. If the weeds get too big, you’ll need to res...

00:11:51Jul 31, 2015

Sightings of sugarcane aphids in grain sorghum have become more and more prevalent during this time of the year in the southeast. Sugarcane...

00:17:31Jul 22, 2015

Target spot in cotton has been found in Santa Rosa County Florida. The disease is relatively new to the southeast so there has not been much...

00:06:03Jul 10, 2015