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Dec. 28, 2011 Source: Agriculture.com Crazy prices for grain, machinery and farm land, the rise of the hog industry, spring planting pressures and the nuts and bolts of your farm. These are among the top story topics on Agriculture.com in 2011. See more details on which topics got the most attention in the last year! Here are the top 5: #5 Pork Powerhouses: Midwest sows on the rise The annual Successful Farming Pork Powerhouses feature showed the 25 largest U.S. pork producers grew their sow herds in the last year. Only 3 of those top farms saw fewer sows than the previous year. #4 $12 corn: Crazy, but possible Also this spring, the corn market was already watching what would end up to be record-low domestic corn stocks. One market-watcher said in April that $12-per-bushel corn wasn't out of the question considering the tight inventories. #3 Chemical rate controllers One of the more 'nuts-and-bolts' features that was popular on Agriculture.com this year was a January feature on chemical rate controllers. "There are many different ways one can go about it," says Rob Hoehn, Micro-Trak sales manager. "It all depends on what a farmer's needs are." #2 Big ideas from All Around the Farm The award-winning All Around the Farm program brings together the latest, greatest ideas for the farm -- from the shop to the field -- that help save time, money and labor. One page of ideas wound up as the second-most-popular story on Agriculture.com in 2011. #1 Top tips for farm shops Your farm shop is important to you, and it showed in 2011. Our collection of ideas and inspirations for the farm shop was the top story on Agriculture.com in 2011. What ideas did you put to work on your farm? To view the entire Top 10 list, click here Tweet |
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