South Dakota farm income from crop sales increases In 2012, all operating income from the crop enterprises accounted for 50.4 percent of the total farm income. This is further broken down into crop sales of 35 percent, crop insurance claims of 13.3 percent, and government payments of 2.1 percent. This is an increase of 9.3 percent over the same categories in 2011.
Growers making up for lost time in planting corn ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Corn growers in the nation's midsection have been busy making up for lost time in getting their corn crop in the ground, after having to endure a wet spring that slowed seasonal planting to its slowest rate in decades.
CRP faces challenges as next signup period looms FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- Last fall, for the fourth straight year, Thief River Falls, Minn., farmer Ken Asp chose not to re-enroll some of his farmland in the Conservation Reservation Program.
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