August 16, 2006

Commentary

Herbicide resistance problem is real

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM

Low peanut and cotton prices, high cost of production, soaring fuel prices, and scarce labor are all reasons for Southeastern row crop farmers to worry....

Issues

Farm bill debate moves to the front burner

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM

Farm groups didn't waste much time fretting over what might have been in the Doha negotiations. Three days after the suspension of the talks, the nation's...

Articles

PPA winners earn honors the hard way

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Paul L. Hollis Farm Press Editorial Staff e-mail: phollis@farmpress.com

Winners of the 2006 Farm Press Peanut Profitability Awards earned their honors the hard way by achieving the highest returns over total costs per acre....

Soybean rust alert system fine-tuned

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Roy Roberson Farm Press Editorial Staffe-mail: rroberson@farmpress.com

The unified system of monitoring Asian soybean rust sometimes sounds like a part of the Star Wars Defense System, with spore traps, sentinel plots and...

Cotton prices set to move higher

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Elton Robinson Farm Press Editorial Staff erobinson@farmpress.com

Additional import quotas from China and a supply disruption somewhere in the world could push cotton prices higher in the short-term, according to analysts...

Putting a good team together: Financial planning often neglected

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Matt Dischinger Farm Press Intern

The 2006 Southern Peanut Growers Conference in Panama City, Fla., provided several sessions meant to help peanut growers increase profitability in their...

Peanut insect scouting is intensive

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Matt Dischinger Farm Press Intern

Ron Weeks, an Extension entomologist and professor at Auburn University, has been working in the business of managing insects since 1975. But when he...

Yetter Screw Adjust option speeds planting operations

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM

Spend less time adjusting, and plant more acres each day with the Screw Adjust Residue Manager Option for the White 8000 Planter from Yetter Manufacturing...

Small town firm goes international

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM

To reach KD Sales' headquarters, turn east at England, Ark., and head towards Sherrill, population about 57. If you blink and end up in Altheimer, you've...

Cotton industry must consider foreign needs

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Hembree Brandon Farm Press Editorial Staff hbrandon@farmpress.com

U.S. cotton is at a crossroads, and we're all hoping there isn't a train wreck, says Shane Stephens; but despite all the challenges facing us, I'm optimistic...

Peanut growers facing heavy herbicide resistance problems

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Roy Roberson Farm Press Editorial Staff e-mail: rroberson@farmpress.com

Though pigweed resistance to glyphosate in cotton has been the big newsmaker recently, resistance of several weeds, including pigweed, to the ALS-inhibiting...

Rapid, drastic cuts seen in peanuts

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Paul L. Hollis Farm Press Editorial Staff e-mail: phollis@farmpress.com

Rapid and drastic cuts in U.S. peanut acreage are being seen this year, to the point of Virginia no longer being a major peanut-producing state, says...

Warm season grasses can offset summer drought losses

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Roy Roberson Farm Press Editorial Staff e-mail: rroberson@farmpress.com

An extended winter drought throughout the Southeast and severe drought conditions in the spring and summer in the lower South may create a need for alternative...

Farm groups resigned to WTO collapse

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Forrest Laws Farm Press Editorial Staff flaws@farmpress.com

Leaders of most of the major U.S. farm organizations were disappointed, but seemingly resigned to the collapse of the five-year-old Doha Round negotiations...

Nozzle change boosts sucker control

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Chris Bickers Freelance Writer

Changing the arrangement of nozzles that tobacco farmers use to spray sucker control chemicals could speed this notoriously slow process, scientists said...

Tobacco challenge of 2006: Making burley bloom beside flue-cured

Aug 16, 2006 12:00 PM, By Chris Bickers Freelance Writer

The pressing question on many American tobacco farms this year is, How do you grow burley on a flue-cured farm? Since the federal price support came to...

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