By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. and world ending stocks for cotton are expected to shrink in 2009-10, according to USDA’s first assessment of U.S. and world supply and demand for the new marketing year. ...
The initial forecast of Georgia’s wheat crop for 2009 shows production down from 2008, according to the USDA, NASS, Georgia Field Office. ...
The 2009 University of Kentucky Wheat Field Day is May 19 at Boddie Farm in Christian County....
By Ames Herbert
Virginia Tech\Department of Entomology
Growers in our area have been dependent on pyrethroids for controlling corn earworm (CEW) for many years in many crops including cotton, peanuts, soybeans, sweet corn, tomato and several other vegetable crops. ...
By Pam Knox
University of Georgia
April hit Georgia with almost every weather punch, including floods, hail, high winds, tornadoes and even two earthquakes....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
Cool temperatures, coupled with periods of rain, have kept much of Kentucky’s corn out of the ground. ...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced that J. Dudley Butler, an attorney and cattleman from Mississippi, will serve as administrator of USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Ask an American living in the city about U.S. agricultural subsidies and he or she is sure to go on and on and about how U.S. farm policy is destroying the livelihoods of poor farmers around the world....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
The last weekend in April provided the first opportunity for many Kentucky farmers to plant corn this season....
Perry Thompson, acting executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in South Carolina, has announced that producers can now elect and enroll in the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program....
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) has announced county loan rates for 2009 crops of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, soybeans and other oilseeds (sunflower seed, flaxseed, canola, rapeseed, safflower, mustard seed, crambe and sesame seed)....
By Chris Bickers
Contributing Writer
It’s not an honor North Carolina cotton growers will find particularly appealing, but according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Tar Heel state will apparently experience the largest decline in cotton plantings in 2009 in the Southeast....
Funded in part by Cotton Incorporated, Texas A&M University’s Agricultural Food Policy Center (AFPC) has developed a decision aid for producers considering the new farm program ACRE....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In an agricultural world in which farms seem to be getting bigger and bigger, Surry, Va., brothers Michael and Steven Pittman like staying small just fine....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
According to the recently released U.S. Department of Agriculture Prospective Plantings Report, Kentuckians will produce more corn and soybeans, but less wheat this season....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Virginia farmer Wayne Kirby has worked in agriculture as a fertilizer and chemical salesman and now full-time farmer. ...
The U.S. wheat industry is urging Congress and the Obama administration to immediately ease trade and travel restrictions with Cuba to allow U.S. wheat growers to compete fully in this market, according to U.S. Wheat Associates (USW)....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As planting time approaches farmers in the upper Southeast continue to struggle with the question of what to plant and how to grow the crops they do plant....
Norman E. Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the World Food Prize, recently gathered leading wheat experts from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe in Mexico to address the threat that stem rust poses to the world’s wheat supply....
In early March, Florida farmers indicated that they intend to plant more corn and soybeans, but less wheat, cotton, and peanuts in 2009 than in 2008. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Most folks already knew, but the statement still hit with a whoosh, like air suddenly rushing out of a hot air balloon high above the world....
The U.S. Grains Council, a non-profit organization focused on developing international markets for U.S. corn, barley, sorghum and related co-products, recently hosted a team of Mexican consultants and buyers to the United States to gather insights on the U.S. sorghum industry....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Back in 1992 the John N. Mills and Sons Family Farm in King William County Virginia hosted the annual Virginia Ag Expo. Though in the midst of a severe drought, that August day in 1992 brought over three inches of rain and washed out the Expo....
The numbers are in and according to the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), the value of the state’s agricultural exports for 2008 increased more than 27 percent over the 2007 total....
For wheat growers in eastern North Carolina, current circumstances are drastically different from last year....
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