Advice on feeding mycotoxin-contaminated corn

Mycotoxin contamination has been found in some corn fields all across the Corn Belt this fall.  University of Nebraska extension swine specialist Duane Reese was recently part of a special state-wide broadcast looking at challenges associated with the 2009 harvest.  Reese offered advice to livestock producers, and particularly swine producers, who are looking to feed corn containing mycotoxins.

AUDIO: Duane Reese (3 min MP3)

Help your ag lender stick with you

It certainly has been a challenging year for ag lenders. Paul DeBriyn is president and CEO of Agstar Financial Services, he says ag lenders are doing everything they can to help farmers, especially dairy and hog farmers through these times but producers need to do their part as well.

AUDIO: Paul DiBriyan has some suggestions 3:00

Fertilizer enhancements a risk management tool

Thinking beyond fertilizer while looking ahead to the 2010 growing season. That’s the advice of fertilizer enhancement company SFP based in Kansas. Brownfield talked with SFP’s marketing director about the importance of growers making enhancements part of their risk management strategy.

AUDIO: Melanie Acklin, marketing director for SFP (3 min., MP3)

Evaluating manure management systems

Dr. Paul Walker, Professor of Animal Science at Illinois State University says that as regulations increase, livestock producers will need to consider a manure management system that fits their operation. Dr. Walker sat down and talked with Brownfield’s Dave Russell about research already being done Illinois State University.

AUDIO: Dr. Paul Walker, Prof. Animal Science, Illinois State Univ. (3:00 MP3)

Pork producer takes H1N1 response to social media

The H1N1 influenza scare was amplified within the social media, which brought serious consequences to the swine industry. Dennis Treacy, with pork producer Smithfield Foods, says part of the company’s response to the negative fallout from the term “swine flu” is on the social media.

AUDIO: Dennis Treacy (3 min. MP3)

A new tool for controlling soybean aphids

Soybean farmers will soon have another control option for soybean aphids—aphid-resistant soybeans.  The initial resistant trait revolves around the Rag1 gene developed by University of Illinois researchers.  For 2010, Syngenta plans to launch its aphid-management system in up to six soybean varieties with Rag1-based tolerance.  Pioneer and Monsanto are also developing resistant varieties.  Brownfield’s Ken Anderson talks to Matt O’Neal, an entomology professor at Iowa State University.

AUDIO: Matt O’Neal (3 min MP3)

Innovation needed to stay in the game

Dan Dyer is Soybean Product Development Lead for Syngenta; he says there is a steady stream of new varieties and traits coming out these days because there are always new challenges for yield, weeds, disease, insects and even water.

EU biotech approvals good for US producers

The U.S. Grains Council says the European Union is finally opening the door to biotech traits and that’s a good ting for U.S. producers. The USGC’s Ken Hobbie says they hope approval of feed byproducts – including DDGS will soon follow.

AUDIO: Ken Hobbie, President and CEO of USGC (3:00 min., MP3)

Alternative manure management

For over 20 years now, Paul Walker, Professor of Animal Science at Illinois State University has been involved in what he calls “alternative manure management,” brought about when the ISU research farm was located within the city limits of Bloomington-Normal. But when the farm was relocated, about 20 miles outside the city, the ISU research continued.

AUDIO: Dr. Paul Walker, Illinois State Univ. (3:00 MP3)

Depot transports, blends ethanol and biodiesel

At GROWMARK’s Menard Terminal in Illinois, ethanol and biodiesel and transported, blended and distributed to customers. The facility caters to its customers – farmers – who raise the feedstocks for the renewable fuels. GROWMARK’s Mark Dehner says it’s “just a good fit.”

AUDIO: Mark Dehner (3 min. MP3)

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