New Wild Oat and Millet Product shows promise: Axial

Product
I've become a fan of Axial from Syngenta for wild oat and millet control in cereals. Of course I like it better now that we will have access to it this year. I've seen it on about 1500 acres last year ( all barley). Crop safety was really good. I'm tired of kicking the heck out of a crop when you apply herbicide and so far (only one year!!) Axial has been very friendly to the barley I've seen.

Three other notes on Axial:

• It will be premium priced at $1 to $2 more per acre. (We will see if that holds)
• Evidence points to Axiel breaking group one resistance issues. I have not tested this one. I hope it gives us another option, we will see this year
• I'm not up on tankmixes with Axial. It will have to show a good range like Puma or Horizon or Achieve to gain a majority of our market share

Western Barley (AB, WCE): Daily Commodity Futures Price Chart: March, 2007

A technical look at feed barley for the year end. Still looking good

Larger farms are the profit makers

FarmAssist - Agronomic Resources - Alerts Large farms have economy of size, to aid profitability. I think we know this already but the stats are interesting

Tractor Supply Stores; Things are looking good down on the Farm (retail)

RIS Research Online
Just checking farm related stock. S&P are rating tractor supply a buy (up from a hold)
The upgrade is for reasons not about a robust farm ecomomy but increases in stores means the retail's management must see things they like in agriculture?

adm stock sliding: These guys (and gals) were going to be the biofuel darling

Yahoo Finance Charts
I've posted a stock chart from Yahoo. Archer Daniels Midland stock is slipping. It is only coming back from all time highs, but?
I still like how they are positioning to be the big daddy of biofuel in N. America