DTN ProphetX Biodiesel Edition provides financial modeling calculators and price forecasting tools to allow users to dynamically evaluate the impact on their business in a range of market environments. Customizable workbooks and access to historical information help track agricultural and energy futures, options, spreads and strips, as well as cash and basis information for soybean oil, palm oil and other feedstocks. This edition is a must for anyone in the emerging biodiesel markets to...

Located near a modern port, the plant will supply the fast-growing livestock and feed industries and the large consumer market in the greater Beijing area. Bunge to Acquire Majority Interest in Tianjin, China, Soybean Processing Plant, Bun. Driven by rapid commercialization of its meat and feed industries and strong growth in food consumption overall, China's soybean meal and soybean oil consumption have risen at compound annual rates of over 11 percent and 13 percent, respectively, since...

These insects can injure the root system and growing points and cause the inside of the whorl to die or the complete plants. Pests cropping up in crops. These insects will move the first emerging soybeans and leaf feed. Also, cutworms prefer fields with green vegetation to lay eggs and also prefer low lying areas in the field. Now is the time to watch fields for critters that may reduce stands. Above ground pests include cutworms, flea beetles and cereal leaf beetles. We have occasional...

As growers prepare their soybean crop, they are encouraged to follow several steps to ensure a season of performance successes: Choose varieties that are resistant to diseases. Plant corn in fields with high soybean cyst nematode populations. Taking fields with severe SCN out of soybean rotation will help reduce pest populations. Use seed treatments to combat diseases, especially in poorly drained fields. If you plant too deep, diseases may wipe out the plants before they even have a...

To grow that much corn producers have made the decision to take acres away from other crops and to plant corn a second year on certain acres. This yield drag cannot be overcome with more nitrogen, it is something about the second year of a crop. The market is demanding more corn and producers are responding. This is simply because the corn residue it tying up the nitrogen more than soybean residue does. Wiebold said research studies show a 9 to 10 percent yield loss in corn following corn...