Nov 18, 2009 9:32 AM, By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
2008 was a heady year for Pat Westhoff and other analysts at the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute....
Nov 16, 2009 10:30 AM, By Dave Caldwell, North Carolina State University
Growers of organic crops in North Carolina and across the Southeast will get some much needed help as plant breeders at North Carolina State University launch an effort to develop corn, peanut, soybean and wheat varieties adapted to being grown organically....
Nov 12, 2009 9:30 AM
Based on a survey of growers contacted around Nov. 1, Georgia’s crop yields remained the same as last month for corn and peanuts, while cotton and soybeans showed a decline in yields....
Nov 11, 2009 10:03 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A statistical picture of the impact of wet weather on Mid-South crops still has not come into focus, although USDA is acknowledging significant problems with a portion of the Mid-South cotton crop....
Nov 11, 2009 9:45 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Huge soybean crops in North America and South America could push world inventories higher and prices lower in 2010, according to a market analyst speaking at the CME Group press briefing on USDA’s Nov. 9 Crop Production Report and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates....
Nov 11, 2009 9:31 AM, By Bob Goodman & Max Runge, Auburn University
The July 2010 wheat contract peaked this summer around June 1, at $7.50 per bushel and has fallen pretty consistently since. ...
Nov 10, 2009 11:32 AM, By Roy Roberson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
When Elizabeth City, N.C., farmer Richard Parker says he is carrying on an old family tradition — he’s not using the line from the old Hank Williams Jr. song lightly....
News from the Farm BillHouse votes to suspend base acre provisionSep 26, 2008 9:14 AM The House passed legislation supported by both parties that would suspend for the 2008 and 2009 crop years a farm bill provision that required producers to have a minimum of 10-base acres to receive program benefits. ... Senators, ag secretary spar over ACRE provisionsSep 16, 2008 10:21 AM, By Forrest Laws A group of farm-state senators led by Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin is asking Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer to stop trying to re-write the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 through the regulations implementing the new farm bill.... ACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmersJul 15, 2008 9:34 AM, By Forrest Laws The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ... Farm bill, flooding: Economist Daryll RayJul 9, 2008 9:57 AM, By David Bennett After the first round of producer organization-sponsored farm bill meetings, Southeast farmers still have plenty of questions about the new legislation.... |
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