The House and Senate Agriculture Committees are scheduled to begin marking up the 2013 version of the farm bill in separate sessions next week. But the debate over spending cuts to the farm bill’s nutrition programs is expected to take center stage when it reaches the House....More
American Farm Bureau Federation Vice-President Barry Bushue testified before the U.S. House April 24 to champion new support for the nation’s growing specialty crops sector....More
If not by leaps and bounds, Florida’s peach acreage is growing, up from just a few hundred acres a decade ago to an expected 1,200 acres by year’s end....More
Cotton producers from across the country recently toured Cotton Incorporated headquarters in Cary, NC, to see how their assessment dollars are spent to keep cotton competitive on the world market....More
China has been a puzzle for most of the cotton-producing and consuming sectors since the time President Nixon opened the country to the rest of the world in the early 1970s....More
Cotton acres are expected to be down and soybeans up in the Southeast this year. But that doesn’t mean farmers can move away from practices like the use of pre-emergence and lay-by herbicides that have helped them rein in glyphosate-resistant pigweed....More
After Congress barely passed an eleventh-hour extension of the 2008 farm bill on Jan. 1, many hoped Congress would quickly return to work on completing action on the legislation that passed the Senate and the House Agriculture Committee in 2012....More
Severe droughts in different parts of the country in 2011 and 2012 are leading corn growers to look for hybrids that could “weather” those adverse conditions better than previous ones....More
The Vietnam War marked a turning point in the lives of many Americans. One of those was Kenneth Quinn, who entered the war as a young Foreign Service officer and later became president of the World Food Prize....More
