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'Her top priority is ensuring that each soybean farmer’s checkoff investment is wisely utilized in marketing, education of soybeans' — Shannon Ellis
Between 1930 and 1942, the United States' share of world soybean production grew from 3% to 47%, and by 1969 it had risen to 76%. By 1973 soybeans were the United States' "number one cash crop, and leading export commodity, ahead of both wheat and corn". [8] Although soybeans developed as the top cash crop, corn also remains as an important ...
By the end of the 19th century, McCormick's company had built a primitive combine, which could harvest grain even faster and cheaper than older reapers. Prior to the invention of the reaper, farmers could harvest only 0.5-acre (0.20 ha) a day; using this machine, farmers could harvest 12 acres (4.9 ha) a day, with less manual labor.
The corn earworm moth and bollworm (Helicoverpa zea) is a common and destructive pest of soybean growth in Virginia. [38] Soybeans are consumed by whitetail deer which may damage soybean plants through feeding, trampling and bedding, reducing crop yields by as much as 15%. [39]
Sep. 23—On a warm and cloudless Thursday morning, Ed Goebel walked along the rows of yellow-brown soybean plants in the field he works south of Mankato. He's lived in his home on nearby Monks ...
Soybean management practices in farming are the decisions a producer must make in order to raise a soybean crop. The type of tillage, plant population, row spacing, and planting date are four major management decisions that soybean farmers must consider. How individual producers choose to handle each management application depends on their own ...
Based on farmer's revenues, crop-revenue insurance [4] [5] is based on deviation from the mean revenue. RMA uses the futures prices on harvest-times listed in the commodity exchange markets, to determine the prices. Combining the future price with farmer's average production gives the estimated revenue of the farmer.
Before 1850, the crop was sacked, shipped by wagon or canal boat, and stored in warehouses. With the rapid growth of the nation's railroad network in the 1850s–1870s, farmers took their harvest by wagon for sale to the nearest country elevators.