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
With head scab widespread in wheat harvested this past summer and wet weather delaying wheat planting and reducing acreage this fall, Kentucky producers have faced adversity in the past year....
The Joint Annual Conference of the North Carolina Corn, Cotton, Small Grains and Soybean Associations will meet in New Bern, N.C., at the Riverfront Convention Center, Jan. 14-15, 2010....
By Katie Pratt, University of Kentucky
Grain was harvested at higher moisture levels this past fall on many farms in Kentucky and neighboring states. With much of that grain now in storage bins, growers need to take extra precautions in managing it....
U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) recently conducted a seminar in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to introduce U.S. wheat and the U.S. marketing system to the Saudi Arabian wheat buying organization, Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization (GSFMO)....
By Katie Pratt, University of Kentucky
During the 2009 harvest, many growers, especially those who relied on natural air drying, struggled to get their grain dried down to appropriate moisture levels. ...
By Katie Pratt, University of Kentucky
To share the latest research-based information with more grain crops producers across Kentucky, the University of Kentucky Grain Crops Academy will offer programs in two different areas of the state beginning in January....
The 13th annual National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Conference, Southern Corn and Soybean Conference, and the Southern Precision Agriculture Conference will be held at Harrah’s Convention Center, Tunica, Miss., Jan. 12-14, 2010....
By Roy Roberson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The high cost of phosphate, combined with recent environmental threats to the Chesapeake Bay and other environmentally sensitive areas of the Southeast, have put growers in a potentially tight situation for fertilizer....
Advanced production techniques, informed growing practices and improved seed varieties helped corn growers achieve high yields in the National Corn Growers Association 2009 National Corn Yield Contest....
The 2010 Kentucky Commodity Conference is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 22, at the Holiday Inn University Plaza in Bowling Green, Ky....
By Roy Roberson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Princeton, N.C., farmer Dan Kornegay has farms in North Carolina and South Carolina and his home farm sits in the middle of some of the most severe pigweed resistance in the country....
By Katie Pratt, University of Kentucky
Wet weather in September and October caused many producers to harvest corn and soybeans in less-than-ideal conditions. ...
Soybean, corn, wheat and sorghum growers who attend the 15th Annual Commodity Classic, March 4-6, in Anaheim, Calif., will be “cruising to success.” ...
Researchers worldwide are trying to economically convert cellulosic biomass such as corn stover into "cellulosic ethanol." ...
With the wet weather continuing to slow corn and soybean harvest in many areas, National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS) is urging farmers to contact their crop insurance agent as soon as possible....
By Liz Morrison, Corn and Soybean Digest
Drainage water management, or controlled drainage, cuts nitrate loads flowing into surface waters through the tile system, especially during the fallow period. ...
By Roy Roberson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Irrigation is an essential tool for growing high yielding, high value cotton and grain crops in the Southeast. ...
By Katie Pratt, University of Kentucky
No-till wheat research at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture has come a long way since a drill dropped seeds in the first test plot more than 25 years ago at UK's Research and Education Center in Princeton....
By Daryll E. Ray, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.
Much of the time this column focuses on current issues in US agricultural policy: food safety rules, farm program payments, crop insurance, ethanol, and CAFOs, among others....
From the USDA
Seventy U.S. trade organizations received more than $234 million in fiscal 2009 to help promote American food and agricultural products overseas....
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues have completed a four-year effort to sequence the genome of corn, an achievement expected to speed up development of corn varieties that will help feed the world and meet growing demands for using this important grain crop as a biofuel and animal feed. ...
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....
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