By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Shortly after the latest G-8 summit wrapped up in Japan in early July, speakers at a National Family Farm Coalition-sponsored forum pointed to the lack of a strategic grain reserve as a cause for current agriculture market conditions....
Afternoon showers and thunderstorms helped some Alabama crops last week, but even with the arrival of rainfall high temperatures were taking a toll. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
T.G. Gibson is a life-long farmer — and a good one. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Wheat acreage is up across the Southeast and prospects for 2009 look good. ...
The Kentucky corn crop slipped a little this past week as hazy, hot and humid conditions continued. ...
The National Corn Growers Association has extended its deadline for entries in the 2008 National Corn Yield Contest to Aug. 15, to accommodate growers impacted by the Midwest floods. ...
The early-planted corn crop in South Carolina is not going to be much to write home about....
By Natalie Hampton
North Carolina State University
Two researchers in North Carolina State University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are members of a team racing against the clock to find solutions to a fungus that is destroying wheat crops on the other side of the globe....
Crop conditions continue to vary widely across the lower Southeast and that is particularly true for Alabama where some corn was reported to be in the best shape in recent years, while other fields bordered on disaster. ...
In written comments to the Surface Transportation Board (STB), the National Corn Growers Association voiced its concern over the railroad industry’s request to discontinue shipping anhydrous ammonia — a source of nitrogen fertilizer....
By Jim Langcuster
Auburn University
In terms of crops, the Tennessee Valley farm landscape is highly diverse, with more corn, soybeans and wheat visible than ever before....
There is promising potential for U.S. grain exports to China, while sales to Japan and Taiwan over the years have been steadily growing, according to Cary Sifferath, U.S. Grains Council’s senior director in China and former country director in Japan, and C.M. Lynn, director of the Council’s Taiwan office....
Summer weather returned to Kentucky and Tennessee this past week as hazy, hot, humid conditions prevailed. ...
The Virginia corn crop has reached the stage where it’s suffering badly from dry weather. ...
Corn harvest got under way in Alabama during the week ending July 20, with other producers side-dressing cotton, completing herbicide, insecticide and PGR applications to cotton, making fungicide and herbicide applications to peanuts, and treating some soybean fields with fungicides to battle disease....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
With grain prices at unprecedented levels and some fungicide companies implementing aggressive marketing campaigns, many corn and soybean producers are considering applying a fungicide to increase yields. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The same corn prices that many experts said would settle in at $4 per bushel or so edged up to near that level as summertime approached. ...
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
The recent 2008 wheat harvest has been a textbook example for producing outstanding to near record breaking yields for Kentucky producers, according to University of Kentucky College of Agriculture specialists....
Kentucky growers were winding down their planting of double-crop soybeans last week, and with recent rains, germination was taking place rapidly....
South Carolina soybeans may have been saved by rainfall this past week, but the crop isn’t out of the woods yet as more moisture will be needed before maturity. ...
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As wheat prices continue to bump up against the $9-per bushel range, growers in the lower Southeast are rushing to take advantage of the lofty prices with what could be — in some states — record-high yields....
If the tradition holds, then thousands of producers, agribusiness representatives, and interested participants are expected to attend the 25th Milan No-Till Crop Production Field Day July 24 at the University of Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center at Milan, Tenn....
The July 1 crop report shows Georgia’s wheat yield was up from the June 1 forecast, according to the USDA, NASS, Georgia Field Office....
It varied drastically, but recent rainfall in Alabama might have saved the corn crop in some counties, while other areas got little relief....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Managing 8,500 acres of row crop land is tough enough when everything works the way it’s supposed to work. When your herbicide won’t work on your toughest to manage weed — there is a big problem....
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