Jul 8, 2009 9:57 AM, By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Noting that other countries are showing no signs of reducing their export subsidies, USDA has announced the initial round of allocations under the Dairy Export Incentives Program for the period July 1 through June 30, 2010....
Jul 1, 2009 12:04 PM, By Ray Nabors, Contributing Writer
Crop prices are beginning the annual meteorological reaction. ...
Jul 1, 2009 8:04 AM
The United Soybean Board (USB), the national organization that invests soybean checkoff dollars to create greater demand for U.S. soy, recently voted to undertake a market analysis identifying effective models of international marketing. ...
Jun 25, 2009 9:25 AM
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is urging producers to learn about the new Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program before the August sign-up deadline....
Jun 16, 2009 9:47 AM, 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. ...
Jun 15, 2009 9:54 AM, By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Weather extremes have forced higher than expected abandonment and prevented plantings in cotton fields from Texas to the Carolinas so far this spring....
Jun 11, 2009 12:34 PM, By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
By the year 2050, the world population will have increased by some 3 billion souls, up to 9 billion people inhabiting this planet. ...
News from the Farm BillHouse votes to suspend base acre provisionSep 26, 2008 9:14 AM The House passed legislation supported by both parties that would suspend for the 2008 and 2009 crop years a farm bill provision that required producers to have a minimum of 10-base acres to receive program benefits. ... Senators, ag secretary spar over ACRE provisionsSep 16, 2008 10:21 AM, By Forrest Laws A group of farm-state senators led by Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin is asking Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer to stop trying to re-write the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 through the regulations implementing the new farm bill.... ACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmersJul 15, 2008 9:34 AM, By Forrest Laws The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ... Farm bill, flooding: Economist Daryll RayJul 9, 2008 9:57 AM, By David Bennett After the first round of producer organization-sponsored farm bill meetings, Southeast farmers still have plenty of questions about the new legislation.... |
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