Southeast Farm Press News Archive

Georgia crops suffering 

Jul 1, 2009,

By Brad Haire, University of Georgia

After rough spring weather, the heat is on. ...

Virginia Extension expands online presence 

Jul 1, 2009,

By Michael Sutphin, Virginia Tech University

Virginia Cooperative Extension has revamped its online presence with a new and improved website that connects citizens with the research-based knowledge at Virginia's land-grant universities, Virginia Tech and Virginia State University....

Peanut Profitability Award winners named 

Jul 1, 2009,

By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff

This past year was probably the most interesting year growers have seen in the history of peanut production, says Marshall Lamb, research director for the National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Ga., and advisor for the Farm Press Peanut Profitability Awards....

Markets watching weather 

Jul 1, 2009,

By Ray Nabors, Contributing Writer

Crop prices are beginning the annual meteorological reaction. ...

Livestock under heat stress 

Jul 1, 2009,

By Aimee Nielson, University of Kentucky

Recently Kentuckians have experienced some of the highest heat indices of the season....

Tennessee vegetable growers offer 'home grown' 

Jul 1, 2009

You may be a better nuclear physicist than Ted Smiley. ...

Soybean acres still under expectations 

Jul 1, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

USDA may have estimated record soybean acreage for 2009, but the estimate was actually a million acres less than what the trade was expecting, according to analysts speaking at a CME Group press briefing on USDA’s June 30 Planted Acreage report. Conversely, USDA’s estimate of corn acres was 3 million acres higher than expectations....

Stink bug outlook unpredictable 

Jul 1, 2009,

By Jack Bachelor
North Carolina Extension Entomologist

For cotton growers, stink bugs present a frustrating problem: Although many cotton insects and their damage vary from year to year and from field to field, stink bugs probably take the cake. ...

USB reviewing international marketing efforts 

Jul 1, 2009

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. ...

Tennessee berries ripe for picking 

Jul 1, 2009

It’s been a tough spring, but Tennessee’s berry farmers are in the black — and blue and red — thanks to the rains that put other crops on hold. ...

Corn growers to speak out on ethanol blends 

Jul 1, 2009

Several recreational trade associations have recently called on members to contact the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and ask it not to implement a proposed waiver that will allow ethanol blends in gasoline to be increased from 10 percent to 15 percent. ...

Soybean acres at record high 

Jun 30, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

U.S. farmers planted a record-breaking soybean crop this spring, according to USDA’s June 30 Planted Acreage report. ...

Kentucky corn showing nitrogen deficiencies 

Jun 30, 2009,

By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky

With most of Kentucky’s corn emerged and rapidly growing, some producers are seeing yellowing on the veins of leaves. ...

Concerns mount over biofuel rules 

Jun 29, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

With hearings on biofuels coming fast and furious, the Renewable Fuels Association has offered a preview of its approach to the EPA proposed rulemaking for the Renewable Fuel Standard....

AFBF: It's time to implement the farm bill 

Jun 29, 2009

In testimony on Capitol Hill, American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman said it was a long, hard road to passage of the 2008 farm bill. ...

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