The 2008 soybean crop in Kentucky and Tennessee is running behind schedule. ...
By Jim Langcuster
Auburn University
There is only a grain of truth to the charge that the rising cost of corn is causing food prices to spike, according to one Alabama Cooperative Extension economist....
Much of South Carolina received measurable amounts of rainfall for the first time in several weeks during the period ending July 6....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Corn prices have the potential to break all-time record highs on the heels of USDA’s June 10 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates which indicate significantly lower U.S. production and ending stocks....
The condition of Alabama’s corn crop varies drastically depending on the amount of rainfall received during this growing season. ...
A stretch of mostly open weather allowed Kentucky and Tennessee growers to move ahead with a bountiful wheat harvest, with double-crop soybean planting following close behind....
Some of the South Carolina corn crop is being salvaged for silage, while a few other fields are being abandoned and harrowed. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
While the corn market might show some short-term ill effects from higher-than-expected stock numbers released in late June, producers shouldn’t count out the possibility of another bull market in light of the potential for further yield and acreage losses in the Midwest, market analysts say....
Dry weather once again seems to be settling in over the lower Southeast as area growers look to the skies for relief. ...
On July 1, 2008, the Sorghum Promotion, Research and Information Order officially began collections for a program that will ultimately contribute to the improved development of the sorghum industry....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Midwest corn producers are reporting losses of around 1.2 million acres to extensive rains and flooding in June, according to USDA’s June 30 Planted Acreage Report....
Rising production costs are consuming most of the profit farmers might receive from the record prices crops like corn and soybeans are bringing. ...
Last week’s weather in Kentucky and Tennessee was on the dry side, but even though it brought back reminders of 2007, it did allow for rapid progress with the wheat harvest....
Severe storms passed over Virginia this past week producing hail that damaged several hundred acres of corn, soybeans and wheat. ...
Growers in the lower Southeast who were lucky enough to receive showers over the last week were busy planting double-crop soybeans behind a relatively high-yielding wheat crop that was mostly harvested. ...
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
Recent flooding along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers left some western Kentucky crops in low lying fields underwater. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The announcement that the proposed 60 million gallon per year ethanol plant to be built in Hopewell, Va. will operate primarily on barley has Virginia and North Carolina grain growers buzzing with the possibilities....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is taking several steps to assess the impact on the 2008 crop acreage from the impact of the extraordinary rainfall and flooding in the Midwest....
By Eddie McGiff
Extension Coordinator
Coffee County, Ga.
Recently, a corn farmer asked me if he needed to irrigate his corn now. ...
Early reports from the wheat harvest in Kentucky and Tennessee showed some excellent yields, some so good combines were being slowed....
Growers in South Carolina and Virginia watched crops stress from dry weather last week, while their counterparts in North Carolina feared high temperatures and lack of rainfall will take a heavy toll again this year....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It may seem counterintuitive that, coming off last fall’s record-high U.S. corn production, supplies of corn and other feed grains are extremely tight. ...
In what may be only the tip of the iceberg, crop condition ratings for the U.S. corn crop continue to slide incrementally....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The squeeze on world grain stocks will continue at least for several years. ...
Location, location, location: That’s today’s mantra in the real estate business and was reality in the lower Southeast last week as rainfall varied from none to a trace and on up to almost six inches....
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