This page is designed to aid farmers with their marketing and risk management decisions. The risk of loss in trading futures, options, forward contracts, and hedge-to-arrive can be substantial and no warranty is given or implied by the author or any other party. Each farmer must consider whether such marketing strategies are appropriate for his or her situation.

Pictures of Rice Farm and Surroundings
(The major livelihood in the City)

The disease can be reduced by following some simple production steps:

1. Plant the least-susceptible high- yielding varieties.
2. Seed to a stand of 15 to 20 plants per square foot. Thicker stands will have more disease.
3. Plant at the optimum time for a specific variety. Avoid extremely early planting.
4. Time nitrogen applications so that not more than 30 pounds are applied at internode elongation (IE). Avoid excessive nitrogen application rates.
5. Scout fields for symptoms from IE to a few days before heading and when the incidence of sheath blight has reached a threshold level, use a labeled fungicide.
 

Tips in Corn Planting Decisions

• Determine the productive plant population in several areas of the field to help estimate the potential yield of the field if it is left as is.
• Check stand uniformity. If the productive plant population is not uniformly distributed within the row, additional yield loss will likely occur.
• Use the original planting date plus the remaining productive plant population to estimate field yield potential.
• Use likely replanting date and target plant population to estimate the yield potential of the replanted field.
• Determine whether you can afford the cost of replanting a damaged field. Usual costs include seed, fuel for tillage and planting, additional pesticides, and additional dryer fuel.
• Determine expected "normal" yields. Estimates of the yield potentials of the damaged field and the replanted field are based on a percentage of normal yield for the field in question. Nielsen suggests using a five-year average.
• Determine expected market price for corn. The dollar gain or loss due to replanting depends greatly on what you expect to receive for the grain this fall. The volatility of the grain market this year makes it especially difficult to "plug in" a value for determining a replant decision. Use your best guess.

When incumbent San Carlos City Mayor, Julian V. Resuello, was still a barangay captain, city councilor, and a vice mayor, he already noticed that there is a "missing link" in the city's development process.  He was bewildered by the slow pace of developement confronting his beloved city, which is not left behind in terms of natural assets that are indispensable growth and prosperity.

San Carlos City is the biggest and most populous local government unit in Pangasinan.  It once served as the provincial capital, and currently, it enjoys a strategic locatin being at the epicenter of the province, making it highly accessible through eight entry points composed of both national and provincial roads.  It is also home to highly literate and skilled inhabitants.

Young and energetic, Mayor Resuello, upon assuming office, decided to immediately embark onthe long journey of searching fo the missing link.  He firmly believed that the first step was to trim down the bloated manpower to make it cost effective.  Next steps were to maintain sound fiscal management with full transparency, introduce investor-friendly economic policies, and transform the city into ecologically concerned and livable metropolis.

Along the way, Mayor Resuello accelerated and enhanced farmers' productivity to stabilize the city's agriculture-based economy.  From this point, San Carlos City's vision of transformig its economic base to commercial and agro-industrial can be jump-started.

Mayor Jolly as he is fondly called, is a businessman by profession and had acticipated that the transformation cold bot be realized without first providing the necessary infrastracture support.  Thus, he initiated the upgrading of city roads leading to other municipalities, concrete all city streets, completed the ciyt's drainage network, constructed circumferencial road  catering to the much needed development spaces, the improved power and water services and started the development of a four-hectare govenment owned area into a commercial center.

As reflected in the city's six year framework develoopment plan.  San Carlos   efficiently transforming from an agricultural base economy to commercial one for the new San Carlos City through the sincerest effort of the Resuello Administration and strong support from the people.  The agricultural base economy of the city has tremendously contributed in filling up the outside market, particularly in hadicraft industries which has been giving the city populace a bigger income.  These goods have been made possible by active talents, resourcefulness and the presence of local raw materials which are in abundance such as bamboos, coconuts, buri-palms, clay soil, and woody trees.

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