By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Many wheat growers in the Southeast who expected to reap big profits from high prices for the 2007-2008 crop ended up disappointed with the price they received and disillusioned with the Chicago Board of Trade....
The National Corn Growers Association has updated its Ethanol Facts Web site, making it a one-stop resource for reliable information on corn ethanol in the United States. ...
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Despite a drought that is well into its third year, growers in the lower Southeast are expecting mostly better yields this year than in 2007, thanks primarily to some well-timed rainfall over the region, according to this year’s first crop production forecast from the National Agricultural Statistics Service....
Virginia soybean producers are currently expected to harvest 530,000 acres with an average yield of 29 bushels per acre....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Fred Browning is a sixth generation farmer, studied agriculture in college and has spent most of his life managing a farm. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Is another bull market in the running for corn despite bearish news from USDA for higher ending stocks and production? ...
By April Sorrow
University of Georgia
A grand re-opening ceremony, complete with a field day, was held recently at the Southeast Research and Education Center in Midville, Ga....
Dry, hot weather has returned to the Kentucky, Tennessee region with row crops and forages beginning to suffer....
Portions of South Carolina received appreciable rain from Tropical Storm Fay last week, but most growers in North Carolina and Virginia were not so fortunate....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Paul Davis preaches the virtues of soil improvement from no-till, never-fallow farming as part of his job as New Kent County Virginia Extension Coordinator. ...
Tropical Storm Fay was the big story in the lower Southeast this past week as most of the area received copious amounts of rainfall, and in some cases, damaging winds. ...
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The huge increases in U.S. grain production only highlight the need for a strong program for maintaining and upgrading the nation’s systems of locks and dams to facilitate barge transportation on the Mississippi River and inland waterways, says producer-ginner R.D. James, A.C. Riley Cotton Co., New Madrid, Mo....
North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler is encouraging farmers to have their corn tested for aflatoxin to prevent contamination of feeds and food....
Corn, cotton and tobacco growers will have a powerfully effective new worm management tool available this season. ...
The first forecast of Georgia's row crops indicates all yields are up from last year except for peanuts, which shows a slight decline. ...
By April Sorrow
University of Georgia
Georgia row crop farmers aren’t expecting a record-setting harvest this fall. ...
Based on conditions as of Aug. 1, U.S. corn production is now forecast at 12.3 billion bushels, down 6 percent from last year, but 17 percent above 2006....
Soybean growers in Kentucky and Tennessee have hopes of seeing some good yields come harvest time, even though some double-crop beans will need timely rainfall to adequately fill pods....
Little rain and above average temperatures have put North Carolina crops under stress....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Georgia growers are looking at improved yields for 2008 for both their wheat and tobacco crops, according to the July report from the Georgia Agricultural Statistics Service....
Just over 30 percent of the Alabama corn crop is now rated in good to excellent condition as harvest begins moving forward. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
By the time the rains stopped falling on the Midwest this spring, crops would be destroyed, people displaced, livestock destroyed, and planting progress halted. ...
The Kentucky soybean crop condition remained steady this past week, with single-crop beans generally doing better than their double-cropped cousins....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Wheat acreage is up across the upper Southeast, prices remain good and the future looks even better, based on continued yield increases in statewide variety tests....
Reports out of South Carolina show a considerable acreage of corn is being cut for silage due to poor yield potential. ...
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