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The article focuses on the impact of the strategic procurement method of the Purchasing Division of Rockland County, New York. Relevant to this, Paul Brennan, the county's director of purchasing, is claimed to have led his staff in devising a scheme of generating its revenue operation. In conjunction with this, the county's average net profit per Purchasing Division employee is believed to have wrapped up the 2008 fiscal year with $78,117 revenue.

The article focuses on strategies used by public-sector purchasers in addressing high energy prices in the U.S. According to Michael Bevis, chief procurement officer of Naperville, Illinois, the city is making bulk energy buys using collared futures purchases in order to limit risk. Collars involve agreeing on a set price for a commodity, which stays in place for an entire quarter, so long as the market price stays within ten percent of the set price. The government of Florida utilizes fuel-purchasing cards, which allow the drivers of state-owned vehicles to purchase fuel at local stations under the state's bulk fuel contract price.

The article discusses some insights from analysts and experts from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) concerning the future of the public-sector procurement profession. The bureau's manual entitled "2008-09 Occupational Outlook Handbook" asserts that change in employment numbers are projected to range from a 2% decrease to a 2% increase from 2006 through 2016. BLS uses data from the Occupational Employment Statistics program to develop forecasts that appear in its occupational handbook.

The article presents the views of executives regarding issues related to public-sector spending in 2008 in the U.S. Council of State Governments (CSG) Head Sujit M. Canaga-Retna predicts that national economic trends will affect state finances. Urban Institute's Kim Reuben is less optimistic about state budgets and expects a fallout in Wall Street and the housing market. Center for American Progress' P. J. Crowley predicts improvement in border security, citizenship and immigration services.

The article focuses on the strategies to increase volume of bids for government purchases and encourage cost-cutting competition. During bids and issuing Requests for Proposals, government purchasers always look to attract a large pool of vendors. This would increase competition where purchasers can compare prices and select the best product or service.

The article offers information on the Pierce Ascendant steel heavy-duty aerial ladder from Pierce Manufacturing Inc., the Oracle Service Cloud-based My San Jose mobile self-help platform from Oracle Corp., and the DynaTrap DT2000XLP mosquito traps from Dynatrap.

Focuses on ways on how to fin the right purchasing consultant. Streamlining of a process; Updating of information technology system. INSET: Directories, guides and books..

Reports on online purchasing activities of government purchasers in the United States (US). Government Printing Office's partnership with the US Department of Energy's Savannah River Operations Office to develop a streamlined printing procurement process; Online purchasing trends; Web sites that offer assistance on online purchasing.

Discusses the importance of certification for government purchasing professionals in the United States. Certifications as stepping stones to career success; Organizations that award certifications for public purchasing professionals.

Forecasts that there will be a job stability and future growth in government purchasing administration in the United States by year 2000. Why will there be a slight drop in federal employment or purchasing officials through the year 2006; Views of Ken F. Laverty on the issue of privatization and professional purchasing opportunities; Reports that made the predictions.

The article discusses how a Job Order Contracting (JOC) process helped the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) remove tons of sediment to repair the roadway and drainage system on House Rock Valley that was damaged following a 200-year monsoon that struck the area in August 2015. It presents the tasks that were completed at the seven repair sites by the contractor, S.J. Anderson.

The article offers information on various products used for improving infrastructure on various parts of the U.S. Some of them includes Winter Performance Measurement System from Idaho Transportation Department's (ITD), lightng system at West Riverfront Park in Nashville, Tennessee, and deployment of various equipment in inland parks, hiking trails and sports facilities.

When Phil Borgic's Nokomis, Ill., hog operation caught fire in 2018 and damaged 3 acres of buildings, he learned a thing or two about fire prevention. B Take care with electric devices. b Borgic says the majority of his farmers use electric-ignition box heaters instead of pilot-light heaters. [Extracted from the article]

Scott Clement has a new top-end for soybeans on his Bloomington, Ill., farm: 100,000 seeds per acre. Agronomist John McGillicuddy says he's precision-planted soybeans as low as 50,000 seeds per acre without a yield reduction, thanks in part to 99% seed singulation with technology like vDrive and vSet from Precision Planting. Soybean genetics Conley says soybean breeders have spent decades selecting for yield, and in the process, have brought along other traits. [Extracted from the article]

Nutrien recently announced plans to buy credits from farmers for storing carbon between 2021 and 2022. And by a "carbon economy", he means a carbon market - one that puts dollars behind capturing carbon in soils and returns that value to the farmer. The company is also putting money toward the new carbon farming pilot, which will reimburse farmers for conservation measures that store carbon. [Extracted from the article]

Liberty, Ill., farmer Brett Mathews says he's nearly done putting fence back around his family's 200-acre farm. "I have a row crop farmer who's planting cover crops and a grazier who lives nearby that wants to graze those cover crops for fall and winter forage. But farmers who raise both crops and livestock profit an average $77 per acre when grazing cover crops because of cost savings on winter feed, Filbert says. [Extracted from the article]

With the Indiana hemp plan approved by USDA for the 2021 growing season, Indiana is going into its first commercial-scale growing year after five years of permitting hemp farming for research. Don Robison, seed administrator at the Office of Indiana State Chemist, says growers can apply for a permit for various sites, dropping a pin for each location where hemp will be grown and dried. [Extracted from the article]

A new Heartland Hemp Cooperative led by Indiana growers aims to help farmers earn an income from baled hemp fiber. "We looked at HempTrain, but for our purposes, 1 ton an hour works fine", Mahan says, noting the co-op is planning for 20 to 40 new members in the runup to the 2021 hemp fiber harvest. [Extracted from the article]

Ashmore, Ill., farmer Curt Elmore spent 2020 delving further into conservation farming, planting hundreds more acres of cover crops, experimenting with strip tillage and moving into no-till soybeans. But as a whole, the ripper is not getting much exercise anymore", Elmore says. "I haven't seen yields drop off or be hurt by planting into a stale strip or anything, so I feel pretty confident about it", Elmore says. [Extracted from the article]

The 2020 season was the first time in Mattoon, Ill., farmer Andy Dole's career where he and his father pushed soybean planting ahead of corn in April. Dole says soil temperatures weren't high enough in April to plant corn, but that seed treatments on soybeans made planting that crop more feasible. Dole says that because planting soybeans early has a clear return on investment, it's worth it to have two planters: one dedicated for soybeans and the other for corn. [Extracted from the article]

Over a dozen different organizations are offering agriculture scholarships for the 2021-22 academic year. B Pork. b The Illinois Pork Producers Association will award nine scholarships for the 2021-22 term: three $2,000 scholarships, three $1,500 scholarships and three $1,000 scholarships. Scholarships are open to graduating high school seniors and current undergraduate students enrolled in agriculture and food-related degree programs across the U.S. Apply online at agfuture.org. [Extracted from the article]

Farmers earn a discount on next year's crop insurance bill by planting cover crops on land where they haven't before - but space is limited and filling fast. The state of Illinois spent $300,000 in the 2020 budget and the same amount again in the 2021 budget to apply a $5-per-acre credit to the insurance bills of cover crop farmers. Eligible applicants receive a $5-per-acre premium discount on the following year's crop insurance invoice for every acre of cover crop they enroll and verify in the program. [Extracted from the article]

Dale Hadden, a 2020 Prairie Farmer Master Farmer from Jacksonville, Ill., says adding sulfur in the spring ahead of corn and soybean planting has increased yields for both crops. Hadden reports consistent 250-bushel corn yields from 5 pounds of ammonium thiosulfate, or ATS, and including the soybean nitrogen credit, 180 pounds of N per acre. By applying sulfur on all his corn and soybeans in both 2019 and 2020, Hadden was able to drive mobilization of nutrients from the soil. [Extracted from the article]

Farmer Jacob Wade of McLean, Ill., is preparing to expand 15-inch narrow rows across his farm's entire 6,000-acre operation following the 2021 growing season. Related: Route 16 is magic line for narrow-row beans Wade plans to buy another 15-inch-row precision planter soon as he enters the third year of the trial. "There are other people and equipment in the operation, which is why we haven't switched [entirely] to narrow-row corn yet", Wade says, noting narrow rows for high-management corn is a no-brainer now that the data is in. [Extracted from the article]

Casey, Ill., farmer Tony Baird and his grandfather Lee Ryan planted a quarter of their soybeans in 30-inch rows ahead of corn in 2020. We found switching from beans to corn was much easier if we just kept it at 30-inch; then we could just put the corn plates on and go", Baird says. Route 16 and early soybeans Baird's and his grandparents' Casey farm sits south of an old glacial border between southern and central Illinois. [Extracted from the article]

Farmers have compared 30-inch and 20-inch corn rows for years, but new research from the University of Illinois shows the winner depends on hybrid and weather. At Below's Champaign test plot for narrow-row corn, there was heavy hail damage. Below says that with the "sweet spot" August conditions in Nashville, the 20% to 25% larger root system of narrow-row corn helped maximize yield potential. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the local government spending on information technology (IT) products in the U.S. It is one of the highest product categories for government entities that has prompted the 20% growth of the IT telecommunications market and the fastest government contract activity. Majority of their purchasing applications are integrated with enterprise resource planning (ERP). List of the top IT companies is also presented.

For the 2021 season, ADM is buying carbon credits from Illinois farmers in a 12-farmer ESMC pilot. Building from 1st steps One of the farmers who joined ESMC has been using cover crops for a decade and no-till for even longer. [Extracted from the article]

With new federal dicamba soybean labels, Illinois has yet to announce how it will enforce additional application restrictions like those used in 2020. Illinois Department of Agriculture officials are weighing their options following the recent U.S. EPA label decision on dicamba, now that states no longer can use local needs labels to "further restrict" pesticide use. However, EPA has allowed states to add restrictions for the past several years, which is how Illinois and other states have been able to further restrict application by date and temperature. [Extracted from the article]

Growing soil organic carbon with cover crops and conservation tillage pays in more ways than just improved soil health, says Broadlands, Ill., farmer Joe Rothermel. Related: Subsidize your step into cover crops While Rothermel is unsure exactly how much he'll earn from his annual paycheck written out by ESMC in 2021, other carbon credit programs have set the price at around $20 per ton of carbon. "Any practice that helps build soil carbon can qualify a farmer for receiving ESMC credits - for example, manure application and cover crops", Rund says. [Extracted from the article]

Illinois hemp harvests can yield up to 14% CBD and still comply with THC regulations in the state, because it only tests for active THC and not inactive THC. Illinois growers could push CBD yields further and leave crops in the field longer than Indiana growers during the 2020 growing season because of this. USDA rules require active and inactive THC be added together, but those rules could change under a new administration and Congress, says David Lakeman, division manager for the Illinois Department of Agriculture's cannabis and hemp programs. [Extracted from the article]

Kavanaugh says AgriGold trials show a trend for corn yielding better when nitrogen is split into two or more trips during the growing season. b Nearly every year, it pays to plant corn and soybeans earlier in the growing season instead of waiting for ideal soil temperatures - at least in the well-drained parts of the state. On the flip side, Donnelly reports soybeans that were planted in acreage that used to be continuous corn consistently outyielded acreage in shorter corn-soybean rotations, sometimes approaching 90 bushels per acre. [Extracted from the article]

To get the payment, he also uses yield mapping, soil testing and minimum soil disturbance during fertilizer placement. To boost his returns, Brown tweaked his approach to soil tests by sampling on a larger grid - 3 acres - and cut his cost to $4.89 per acre. Farmers who use variable-rate technology in Illinois are most likely to use it with lime, as Corrigan says that's more likely to change between soil zones in the field, even in relatively flat areas. [Extracted from the article]