Several recreational trade associations have recently called on members to contact the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and ask it not to implement a proposed waiver that will allow ethanol blends in gasoline to be increased from 10 percent to 15 percent. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Barley production in the upper Southeast could be a boon to grain farmers, but perhaps it could also help pull the livestock industry out of a tailspin that began when corn and other grain feeds soared in price the past two years....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. farmers planted a record-breaking soybean crop this spring, according to USDA’s June 30 Planted Acreage report. ...
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
With most of Kentucky’s corn emerged and rapidly growing, some producers are seeing yellowing on the veins of leaves. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Recent legislation supported by President Obama is a threat to farmers across the U.S., but none more so than grain and cotton growers in the upper Southeast....
North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler is urging farmers to have their wheat tested following the discovery of high levels of vomitoxin in wheat samples from central and northeastern areas of the state....
The early-entry deadline for the popular National Corn Yield Contest is next week — Wednesday, July 1 — the National Corn Growers Association reminds growers. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A Purdue University scientist who was born in a one-roomed thatched hut in Ethiopia and went on to become one of the world’s leading experts on sorghum has been named the recipient of the 2009 World Food Prize....
By Margaret Lawrence
Auburn University
Improved grain prices over the last few years have lured many farmers back into grain production across Alabama and the nation. ...
The June 1 Ag Yield survey indicates the State’s wheat yield was down 2 bushels per acre from the May 1 forecast, according to the USDA, NASS, Georgia Field Office....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Planting delays in the Delta and eastern Corn Belt are expected to reduce yields for corn and rice, according to USDA’s June 10 Crop Production Report. ...
By the time the calendar flipped from May to June, Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) infection levels had reached very worrisome levels in several southern soft winter wheat states, according to university small grain specialists. ...
By Pam Knox
University of Georgia
May in Georgia was very wet. Temperatures were normal to 2 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Millions of viewers saw Brazilian race car driver Helio Castroneves cross the finish line first at the Indianapolis 500 a couple of weeks ago. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Robert Wisner says he’s never seen the kind of drop that occurred in grain production in South America this spring....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
I was 11 years old, and it was tobacco barning season, and we got up early that morning taking out tobacco. ...
The National Corn Growers Association and other leading agricultural organizations have sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer expressing concerns about the cap-and-trade portion of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers and friends attending the 2009 Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition Field Day, scheduled for July 7, will get to see some new varieties and crops, some new ways of crop production and a lot of valuable variety information on staple crops of the Southeast....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Wilson, N.C., farmer Linwood Vick grew up quick in the farming business — he had to — and at a young age has become one of the top tobacco and sweet potato farmers in the Carolinas....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
During the past week, the disease Fusarium head blight or "head scab" has appeared at significant levels in many wheat fields across Kentucky....
By Chris Bickers
Contributing Writer
The weather took a favorable turn in April for wheat growers in Virginia and North Carolina. ...
By Sharon Dowdy
University of Georgia
Top agricultural scientists from across the United States met in Georgia this month to discuss ways to help farmers increase profits, optimize yields, decrease inputs and manage crops based on local weather and soil conditions....
By Austin Hagan
Alabama Extension Plant Pathologist
Given plenty of rainfall and a susceptible variety, one of several leaf spot and blight diseases can cut corn yields....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Corn growers want to see a mechanism in which they can sell carbon credits on a regulated market to help offset rising production costs from newly introduced climate change legislation, the president of the National Corn Growers Association says....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
There’s an old saying that East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet. ...
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