By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Low oil prices, an increase in the value of the U.S. dollar and record low numbers for the livestock industry all play key roles in determining what price commodities will trade and subsequently how many acres of which crop growers will plant, according to one industry expert....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If numbers tell a story, then the latest “book” from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) tells an unsettling tale. For 2009, FAPRI’s well-respected analysts expect to see reductions in both crop and livestock receipts as well as a “modest turndown” in cost of production....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
Ever since fertilizer prices peaked last summer, the price of nitrogen and phosphorus has dropped. However, potassium prices have remained high, and it's causing some concern among grain crops producers....
By Ginger Trice
University of Tennessee
The Web site devoted to Tennessee’s major field crops has a new design and some added features that researchers say will help the state’s producers better manage their 2009 crops....
By Paul Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The fertile ground of the U.S. Midwest is ample proof that a sod-based rotation can be beneficial, says David Wright, University of Florida Extension agronomist....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With the new Osage Bio Energy plant planning to come on line within a year, Virginia growers have shown a renewed interest in barley, which will be the primary source of stock for the new 55 million gallon a year ethanol plant in Hopewell, Va....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Higher gasoline prices might not be good for the travel industry, but it sure seems to be good for corn fundamentals. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. farmers could plant 3.8 million fewer acres of corn, soybeans and wheat in 2009-10 as dramatically lower commodity prices and higher input costs force them to rethink the scale of their operations....
By Paul Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Too many peanuts are in the pipeline and cotton prices are still struggling, so growers who don’t consider soybeans an option are taking a closer look at corn for 2009....
With 236 companies exhibiting in 943 booths, the 2009 Commodity Classic Trade Show set a record in Grapevine, Texas, for the largest show in the history of Commodity Classic....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
President Obama’s proposal calling for the elimination of direct payments to large “agribusinesses” is drawing a strong reaction from members of Congress and some of the nation’s farm organizations....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The wheat DNA that Virginia Tech Researcher Marla Hall passed around at a recent field day looked like a big grain of salt. ...
As the biotechnology companies prepare to introduce eight-way and even higher combinations of genetic traits, industry members have been trying to figure out how to handle all the “clutter” from the brand names that will be involved....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
Every growing season, farmers face unique challenges as a result of weed and pest problems....
The 2009 Commodity Classic may be a joint meeting of the corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum industries, but several corn-specific meetings and events will keep corn farmers busy this week and provide them the opportunity to network, learn and share with peers from around the country — having some fun in the process....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Many producers believe rotating cotton and corn will help them increase cotton yields. ...
By Keith Balderson
Extension Agent, ANR
Essex County, Va.
Corn yield loss to nematodes generally has not been a major consideration in eastern Virginia. ...
Food imports produced through biotechnology should be less of a problem for European Union countries as the rest of the world adopts them, EU official Dan Rotenberg said at a seminar on U.S./EU trade relations during the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 90th annual meeting in San Antonio....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
New anti-ethanol commentary by environmental and food manufacturing organizations are “stirring up fear” among consumers at a time when all segments of the economy should be pulling together to bring about recovery....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA projected a 40-million bushel increase in sorghum use in February based on indications of increased sorghum use by ethanol plants in the Southern and Central Plains. ...
By Carol Spence
University of Kentucky
In the 1950s, more than 120,000 acres of Kentucky farmland stood in barley. ...
Corn growers now have access to a new one-pass, full-season weed control tool, as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently approved Corvus herbicide from Bayer CropScience....
By Laura McGinnis
United States Department of Agriculture
A new field tool developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists applies poultry litter to fields in shallow bands, reducing runoff of excess nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
Over the past several months, the wholesale price of fertilizer has declined, dramatically in some cases....
By Stephanie Schupska
University of Georgia
University of Georgia economic experts at the 2009 Ag Forecast in Gainesville, Ga., used no flattering words to describe the current or future economic outlook for the U.S. and Georgia’s agriculture sector, still staggering from major blows received last year....
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