By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Midwest corn producers are reporting losses of around 1.2 million acres to extensive rains and flooding in June, according to USDA’s June 30 Planted Acreage Report....
Ron Harkey was elected president of the Cotton Growers Warehouse Association at its annual meeting in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Harkey is president and CEO of Lubbock, Texas-based Farmers Cooperative Compress....
Rising production costs are consuming most of the profit farmers might receive from the record prices crops like corn and soybeans are bringing. ...
Last week’s weather in Kentucky and Tennessee was on the dry side, but even though it brought back reminders of 2007, it did allow for rapid progress with the wheat harvest....
Severe storms passed over Virginia this past week producing hail that damaged several hundred acres of corn, soybeans and wheat. ...
A National Cotton Council leadership team is visiting China to see its cotton industry development and continue building a relationship with U.S. cotton’s No. 1 customer....
By Jack Bachelor
North Carolina Extension Entomologist
Although North Carolina cotton producers routinely get banged up with thrips, in recent years we’ve been fortunate that cotton aphids have only been a sporadic pest. ...
Growers in the lower Southeast who were lucky enough to receive showers over the last week were busy planting double-crop soybeans behind a relatively high-yielding wheat crop that was mostly harvested. ...
In what may be only the tip of the iceberg, crop condition ratings for the U.S. corn crop continue to slide incrementally....
Location, location, location: That’s today’s mantra in the real estate business and was reality in the lower Southeast last week as rainfall varied from none to a trace and on up to almost six inches....
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