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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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. ...
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....
By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The best marketing advice for corn producers who did not price their crops in 2008 is to forget about last year…let bygones be bygones....
By Katie Pratt, University of Kentucky
Planning for the coming growing season is an important, but sometimes challenging task for producers of grain crops. ...
By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture Ron Sparks is calling it a “potential crisis” — the rainy weather conditions throughout most of September and October that have frustrated growers who were eyeing pretty good cotton, peanut, soybean and corn crops....
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) has just announced the state’s Top Twenty agricultural commodities for the 2008 production year....
A nationwide survey conducted for the National Corn Growers Association found broad public respect and trust for family farmers and support for corn as food, feed and fuel. ...
From the U.S. Grains Council
Morocco’s livestock and poultry sector will soon have high protein U.S. sorghum available for inclusion in feed rations....
By Stephanie Yao, United States Department of Agriculture
The first hard winter wheat varieties bred and developed for production in the eastern United States have been released by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS)....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA hit U.S. wheat with a major surprise in its Oct. 9 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, increasing projected U.S. ending stocks for wheat to 864 million bushels....
By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
In a production year in which rainfall is plentiful and some growers even have to cope with flooding, it’s easy to forget about the specter of drought....
Virginia Farmers who grow corn, soybeans, cotton, hay and peanuts are expecting a successful fall harvest. ...
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
As reports of herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth continue to spread throughout the Southeast, farmers are turning to hand labor to try to keep the pesky weeds at bay. ...
Speakers painted a “cautiously optimistic” outlook for U.S. agriculture at Farm Bureau’s mid-October commodity outlook conference, in Albuquerque, N.M. ...
The 13th annual National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Conference, Southern Corn and Soybean Conference, and the Southern Precision Agriculture Conference will be joined in 2010 by the newly-organized Southern Field Crop Alliance....
By Katie Pratt, University of Kentucky
Harvesting this year's crop is an uphill battle for Kentucky’s corn and soybean producers as frequent, heavy rains are keeping combines out of the fields for days at a time....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
If African farmers and the world’s hungry are to climb out of their misery and become more productive citizens, technology will have to pave the way, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates says....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Gebisa Ejeta says the world will have to increase its production of food more in the next four decades than it has since the dawn of civilization....
Based on a survey of Georgia growers contacted around Oct. 1, corn yields were down slightly from September....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Ample rainfall, a fertility program designed to maximize yield and good hybrids could make for a pleasant ride on the combine this season for Triple G Farms in Arlington, Ky....
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