usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Friendly View Email Article Bees getting the wrong food Chico Enterprise-Record Article Launched:03/19/2007 12:00:11 AM PDT I was very surprised to read that beekeepers feed their bees soy protein bricks mixed with pollen and honey. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Friendly View Email Article Bees getting the wrong food Chico Enterprise-Record Article Launched:03/19/2007 12:00:11 AM PDT I was very surprised to read that...

Beans planted before May 1 have higher yield potential, but growers should be aware that crop insurance doesn't cover very early plantings, said Shawn conley, Purdue University soybean specialist. Last year, 53 percent of Indiana's acreage was planted to soybeans and with most farmers in a corn/soybean rotation, more acres were naturally going to shift to corn in 2007, Conley said. Indiana farmers will plant more acres to corn than soybeans this year, but the push for more corn for ethanol...

If realized, this would be our smallest soybean acreage since 1994 and our largest year to year drop in soybean acres ever in the state of Iowa. The price of soybeans has moved up too, but not as much as the price of corn, as the two crops are competing for acres. Iowa farmers have traditionally led the nation in producing corn, accounting for more than 2 billion bushels of production, in each of the last three years. Won't beans have to move higher in price to attract more acres? "I'm...

The extra corn acres in Delaware will come from fields that otherwise would have contained soybeans and processed vegetables. The decline in soybean acres is similar to that of the nation's. While farmers and producers have focused on corn prices, the drop in soybean acres is likely to push up soybean prices as well. Farmers will plant 185,000 acres of corn this year, about 9 percent more corn than last year, but slightly less than the 15 percent increase nationwide, according to a report...

He cautioned that all the acre numbers reported are intended, and weather and market factors could change farmers final decisions about 2007 crops. Reports on planting intentions and weather also will affect market prices, Ibach said, and farmers will react to the markets. The acreage estimates are based on surveys of farmers during the first two weeks of March. For example, if there continues to be a wet spring and farmers have trouble getting corn planted, they still can shift to...