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Local News
  Illinois Soybean Association Research Tour Set for Later This Week  
  Tours will be held July 10, in Champaign, and July 11, in Carbondale.  
  Compiled By Staff (July 8, 2008)  
  Living Expenses Continue to Rise for Farm Families  
 

Non-capital expenses account for largest percent of increase from 2006 to 2007.

 
  Compiled By Staff (July 7, 2008)  
  Get Out the Chainsaw, Now Is the Time to Cut Firewood  
  Properly-seasoned firewood needs at least six to nine months to dry.  
  Compiled By Staff (July 4, 2008)  
  Now Is the Time to Photograph and Map Water-Damaged Areas  
  The information will come in handy when it's time to install/upgrade drainage systems.  
  Compiled By Staff (July 3, 2008)  
  GM Will Offer 18 Flex Fuel Vehicles in 2009  
  Company is committed to making half the lineup FFV by 2012.  
  Compiled By Staff (July 2, 2008)  
National News
  Crop Development Continues to Lag Behind Normal  
 

Soybean and corn development have both been delayed by wet cool weather.

 
  Compiled By Staff (July 8, 2008)  
  Insurance Has Greater Importance this Year  
 

Preventive planting insurance is usually about lack of moisture not abundance.

 
  Compiled By Staff (July 8, 2008)  
  R-Calf Obtains Preliminary Injunction  
 

Court requires USDA to accept public comments on opening border to Canadian beef.

 
  Jason Vance (July 8, 2008)  
  USDA Begins Issuing Advance Payments  
 

Advances on Direct and Counter-cyclical program payments are being mailed.

 
  Compiled By Staff (July 8, 2008)  
  South Korea Names New Cabinet Ministers  
 

Agriculture, welfare and education ministries get new leaders.

 
  Compiled By Staff (July 7, 2008)  
  British Newspaper Attacks Alternative Fuels  
 

NBB calls the article a cheap shot.

 
  Compiled By Staff (July 7, 2008)  
  House Sets Hearings on Futures Markets  
 

Review may lead to more power for CFTC.

 
  Compiled By Staff (July 7, 2008)  
  Truncated Signup Period for DCP Program  
 

Farmers will have less time to sign up for crop programs this year.

 
  Compiled By Staff (July 7, 2008)  
  Kansas Reader Wins Polaris Prize  
 

Online prize drawing draws entries from thousands of entries.

 
  Compiled By Staff (July 7, 2008)  
  NBB Responds to AEI Discussion  
 

Jobe emphasizes that food versus fuel talks need to focus on information that is accurate and in context.

 
  Compiled By Staff (July 3, 2008)  
Web Exclusives
  New Grizzly 550 purrs like a 700  
 

Yamaha will unleash a bear of a machine on the 500-class utility ATV market in August.

 
  Alan Newport (July 8, 2008)  
  Immigrants Fuel Alternative Weed Control  
 

Beef producers are finding that a living weed control system offers great benefits, and access to a new market too.

 
  Gail Keck (June 5, 2008)  
  Delayed Planting Season Makes for Tougher Seed Decisions  
  Three seed company representatives analyze farmers' options across the state.  
  Josh Flint (May 19, 2008)  
  Illinois Takes Top Yield Honors in Corn Belt with 175 Bushels of Corn Per Acre  
 

The state's average yield in 2007 was just five bushels below 2004's 180-bushel record.

 
  Compiled By Staff (May 14, 2008)  
  Feed Ration Calculator Helps Pork Producers Decide If They Should Include DDGS  
 

Developed by U of I Extension personnel, the calculator analyzes costs for various components of a feed ration.

 
  Josh Flint (April 22, 2008)  
Your Markets Today
  Corn and Soybeans Experience Another Day of Losses  
 

Prices bounce off their session lows as bargain hunters take advantage of recent sharp losses.

 
  Arlan Suderman (July 8, 2008)  
 Information from Rural Life magazine
 LDP Information
For Macon County, IL
ZIP Code:   
Commodity
PCP
LDP
Date
Barley $/Bushel$4.93$0.0007/08/2008
Canola $/Cwt.$27.12$0.0007/08/2008
Corn $/Bushel$6.86$0.0007/08/2008
Crambe $/Cwt.$25.17$0.0007/08/2008
Flaxseed $/Cwt.$32.49$0.0007/08/2008
Grain Sorghum $/Cwt.$11.30$0.0007/08/2008
Mustard Seed $/Cwt.$62.04$0.0007/08/2008
Oats $/Bushel$3.69$0.0007/08/2008
Rapeseed $/Cwt.$24.04$0.0007/08/2008
Safflower $/Cwt.$23.04$0.0007/08/2008
Soybeans $/Bushel$15.35$0.0007/08/2008
Sunflowerseed - Oil Type $/Cwt.$27.71$0.0007/08/2008
Wheat - Soft Red Winter $/Bushel$6.36$0.0007/08/2008
 
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