Why American farmers most competitive.
Byline: DELFIN Sd. PEREZ CHICAGO -- American farmers are considered the most progressive and prosperous from among their peers in the world. A recent visit to this US soybean/corn state and two others, (Nebraska and Washington), together with a group of Filipino feedmillers and traders,...

Cockroach delight.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Farmers in the South are elated. A flying cockroach from Asia has shown a liking for the pesky bollworm that threatens cotton, soybean, corn and tomato crops. The roach also eats the eggs of the beet armyworm, a connoisseur of cotton, cabbage and other crops....

Hungry for ethanol.
THE federal government can do something right now to provide relief to Americans facing higher food prices: repeal the ethanol mandate. The diversion of nearly one-third of the American corn crop into ethanol production is a direct result of a 2005 law that required gasoline makers to buy 7.5...

Why American farmers most competitive.
Byline: DELFIN Sd. PEREZ CHICAGO -- American farmers are considered the most progressive and prosperous from among their peers in the world. A recent visit to this US soybean/corn state and two others, (Nebraska and Washington), together with a group of Filipino feedmillers and traders,...

First record of Phyllophaga sp. aff. capillata (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae) as a soybean pest in the Brazilian "Cerrado".
Insects known in Brazil as "coros" are beetle larvae (Coleoptera) of the family Melolonthidae (sensu Endrodi 1966; Moron 1997, 2001a; Moron et al. 1997). Many of these species feed on roots of a wide range of cultivated plants and are considered pests worldwide (Moron 1997). The genus Phyllophaga Harris...

Going native: diverse grassland plants edge out crops as biofuel.
Mixtures of plants native to prairies can give a better energy return as biofuel than corn and soybeans do, a new study finds. Biofuel production from grassland plants would also result in lower emissions of carbon dioxide and reduced pollution from agricultural chemicals. Corn-grain ethanol and soybean...

20 M farmers to plant Bt crops by 2015.
More than 20 million farmers are expected to plant 200 million hectares of biotechnology crops in about 40 countries by 2015, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) revealed. In its 2006 annual report, ISAAA chairman and founder Clive James said the fearless forecast...

Soybean mission from US due this week.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA A soybean mission from the US is in the Philippines this week to explore possible supply agreements that promises to provide better sourcing alternative for the countryas one million metric ton (MT) yearly soybean import normally bought from Argentina. The Philippinesa...

US to hike mango imports, boost soybean exports to RP.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing to push for a greater US-Philippine trade with the expansion of American imports of Philippine mango while maintaining soybean and soybean meal as its top export here. "Itas not a one way...

Field-burning tax credit is still useful.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Katy Coba For The Register-Guard Along with representatives of the Oregon Ryegrass Growers Seed Commission, I have just returned from a trade mission to the Midwest designed to promote the environmental benefits of planting annual ryegrass as a cover crop in corn and...