The Southeastern Sun Grant Center has announced funding for 13 biobased research proposals from land-grant universities in the southeast United States....
USDA has announced the selection of 162 recipients in 40 states and Puerto Rico to receive $22.7 million through the Value-Added Producer Grant program....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA has begun making $1.8 billion in Conservation Reserve Program rental payments to farmers who have voluntarily enrolled land in the nation’s largest conservation and wildlife habitat stewardship program....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Be on your toes, cotton producers — whatever pricing opportunity the market provides in the coming months may not last long, according to analysts speaking at the Ag Market Network’s Sept. 14 teleconference....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I have commented in several previous articles about the need for a very well organized education program on drift management. Perhaps the following example will help make the point....
By Brad Haire
University of Georgia
Charlie Brummer wants to develop switchgrass that can be used to make ethanol. If you've seen a patch growing in the wild, let him know. You may help the University of Georgia researcher and his colleagues fuel the United States in the future....
Feed cost is the major expense in beef cattle production. Overfeeding or underfeeding results in inefficient beef production and reduced profit....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The cotton gin across the way from our office finally cranked up this week. In previous years, by this point in late September, the whole area was already a night-and-day, 24/7 beehive of activity, with modules coming in, then being moved into the gin....
The executive committee of the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees has approved a business partnership between the university and cellulosic biofuels pioneer Mascoma Corporation to establish Tennessee as a biofuels industry leader....
By Rick Bogren
LSU AgCenter
“Good plants gone bad” is how an LSU AgCenter forester describes plants that have invaded the Louisiana landscape and created problems for farmers, forest owners and homeowners....
Farmers interested in non-typical funding to help their bottom lines should check out Sustainable Agriculture, Research and Education (SARE) producer grants, says Henry English, director of the Small Farm Program at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will not offer penalty-free early releases from Conservation Reserve Program contracts, says Acting Secretary Chuck Conner....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Deteriorating crop conditions in Australia, lower than expected production in Europe and strong global demand set the stage for aggressive buying by end users in mid-September, which pushed wheat prices close to $9 a bushel....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Extensive testing of the 2007 Southern rice crop has turned up no evidence of the LLRice601 or other LibertyLink transgenic events that have caused turmoil in the U.S. rice industry for more than a year....
A new program should help universities, small businesses and large companies develop sound management practices to enhance compliance with regulatory requirements for field trials and movements of genetically engineered (GE) organisms, says acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner....
In cooperation with Cotton Incorporated and the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, Mulch & Seed Innovations, LLC, has developed two all-natural cotton-fiber hydromulch products that help control soil erosion — GeoSkin cotton hydromulch (used for semi-flat terrains) and HydraCX2 high-performance cotton hydromulch (used for steep slopes)....
Each year, Gerald Alexander receives numerous calls from landowners who have aquatic plant problems in their farm ponds that they can’t control....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton Belt members of Congress have been telling the Bush administration they would oppose any Doha Round WTO agreement that singled out U.S. cotton for “special treatment.”...
High prices for grain on the boards of trade don’t necessarily show up at local elevators. Farmers harvesting record yields this fall are finding cash prices well below futures prices, said Melvin Brees, University of Missouri economist....
A rainy weather pattern has soaked fields, wet cotton fiber and slowed the cotton harvest in the central and northeast parts of Louisiana....
A timber tax expert, who has assisted in saving an estimated $12 million in taxes through deductions for participants of her Timber Tax Fundamentals Short Course, will be teaching her tax short course to landowners, foresters and accountants....
A World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel has issued a report finding Turkey’s restrictions on market access for U.S. rice violate WTO rules, according to U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A new Government Accountability Office study says farm program payments and federal crop insurance have played a major role in the opening up of new farm land in the upper Midwest. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Ron Litterer may be having second thoughts about becoming president of the National Corn Growers Association next month. Litterer hasn’t become a poster boy for farm policy critics the way some farm group leaders have in recent years. ...
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC
While I was driving to look at some rice fields that were suspected to have glyphosate on them, Bob Scott, University of Arkansas weed scientist, called and asked, “Where are these glyphosate calls coming from all of a sudden?” ...
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Oct 6, 2008 10:30 AM
Early-season and late-season weather-related disasters badly impacted Mid-South growers. ...
Oct 6, 2008 10:27 AM
Cotton Belt congressional members joined their colleagues and the U.S. cotton and textile industry in a call to broaden a key textile import monitoring program....
Oct 6, 2008 10:25 AM
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have identified a plant protein that is a key player in moderating resistance to infectious disease. ...
Oct 6, 2008 10:21 AM
AgBioworks, an initiative of the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture are sponsoring an alternative crops conference at the Fogelman Executive Conference Center at the University of Memphis, Nov. 12-13, 2008. ...
Oct 6, 2008 10:18 AM
Becker Underwood will significantly expand the production capacity of its St. Joseph, Mo., facility to meet increasing demand for inoculants for soybeans, peanuts, peas and lentils grown in North America....
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