By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
One of the primary authors of the 2008 farm bill is turning his attention to trying to find out why fertilizer prices have gone into the stratosphere in recent months....
The big story in the upper Southeast this past week was crop deterioration due to high temperatures and lack of rainfall. ...
Hot, dry weather settled in over the lower Southeast last week putting severe stress on row crops, but allowing wheat harvest to progress rapidly. ...
The board of the Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation of North Carolina has reduced the boll weevil assessment fee for 2008 to $1.25 per acre....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
“Out of date and out of touch with market conditions.” That’s what the National Cotton Council had to say about a ruling by a World Trade Organization Appellate Body in Geneva, Switzerland....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Several Southern producers and researchers are hoping to reduce nitrogen costs on corn and increase harvest efficiency in cotton this coming season with variable-rate applications based on on-the-go sensing technology....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For growers in the Southeast with a history of continuous use of glyphosate-based and ALS-inhibiting herbicides, the question is not if, the question is when will resistant pigweed become a problem....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
After years of seemingly endless ministerial meetings, position papers and, yes, posturing by participants, the Doha Round of the World Trade Organizations seem to be taking a turn for the worse for U.S. cotton....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
National Cotton Council leaders are praising the U.S. Trade Representative Office’s filing of an appeal against the latest ruling in the WTO case brought by Brazil against the U.S. cotton program....
At the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Outlook Forum, Secretary Ed Schafer announced that U.S. agricultural exports are forecast to reach a record $101 billion for fiscal year 2008, up $10 billion from November's forecast and an unprecedented $19 billion above 2007....
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