7 ag stories you might have missed this week - Nov. 16, 2018

Strong overall yield results will be supportive of a land market that otherwise faces some headwinds, including higher interest rates, relatively weak commodity prices and significant trade uncertainties - Read more at Wallaces Farmer.

Kubota is honoring five veterans as part of its 2018 “Geared to Give” program. Each veteran will receive a new Kubota L Series compact tractor. - Read more at Delta Farm Press

U.S. farmers are gambling with their soybeans, storing the crop in hopes trade tensions with China will ease in the next few months. A bushel of soybeans brought $8.87 on Nov. 9. Eight months ago, it was $2 more. - Read more at Farm Futures

How should you calculate rental rate for livestock buildings? Consider age and condition of the building, location of the building, functionality of the building, demand for rental of this type of building and the character and personality of the parties involved in the rental agreement. - Read more at Ohio Farmer

Ellen Schlechter of Orient, S.D., published “The Calving Book,” app in 2014. The app allows her family to use their smart phones to record calving, check pregnancy information, weaning weights and dates and other information that they used to track in their calving books. - Read more at Dakota Farmer

Russell Hedrick of North Carolina is a soil-health farmer using multi-species cover crops and limited inputs. He won the dryland division in the 2016 North Carolina Corn Yield Contest and he’s been able to reduce his fertilizer costs by $70 per acre thanks to the nutrient boosts derived from cover cropping. - Read more at Beef Producer

A company based in St. Paul, Minn., is striving to introduce gene-edited traits in livestock. It’s starting with traits marketed as a way to ease animal suffering, such as polled cattle. -  Read more at Hawaii News Now

Thinking about your Christmas tree? Check out this slideshow from Noffke Tree Farms, which covers 300 acres. - Read more at Wisconsin Agriculturalist