By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
To say that it has been an interesting year for the peanut industry is a great understatement. ...
The American Soybean Association (ASA) has unveiled its new online Advocacy Training Center that teaches basic skills and protocols for advocating farmer-friendly policy to elected officials. ...
From Catfish Farmers of America
The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries halt on the sale of imported Asian catfish and related fish contaminated by banned drugs underscores the urgency of implementing a congressionally-approved law for tough USDA inspections and regulations of imported catfish and catfish-like products, according to the Catfish Farmers of America....
By Duane Dailey, University of Missouri
As of noon on Friday the 13th of November, pork producers had lost more money than they lost in the pork price disaster of 1998-99, said Ron Plain, University of Missouri Extension livestock economist....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Launched in early October, the new National Institute of Food and Agriculture carries the hopes of many: Hope that NIFA will find answers to increasingly daunting questions about feeding the world, hope that agricultural science will attain the status in the United States that it deserves, hope that the institute will streamline funding for agricultural research....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
2008 was a heady year for Pat Westhoff and other analysts at the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute....
By Harry Cline, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The World Trade Organization arbitration report on the infamous Brazilian cotton case says the U.S. will have to forfeit $300 million in export trade to the South American country....
Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack has appointed four members and four alternate members to serve on the National Peanut Board. ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 79 counties in Mississippi as primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused by the combined effects of severe spring and fall flooding, and summer drought, that occurred March 1, 2009, and continuing....
By Pam Knox, University of Georgia
Northern Georgia continued to see wet conditions as the southeastern part of the state dried in October. ...
The newly redesigned U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Web site now provides a wider variety of valuable business information in a format that makes it more accessible than ever to wheat buyers, the U.S. wheat industry, and media outlets. ...
By Dave Caldwell, North Carolina State University
Growers of organic crops in North Carolina and across the Southeast will get some much needed help as plant breeders at North Carolina State University launch an effort to develop corn, peanut, soybean and wheat varieties adapted to being grown organically....
By Nick Hill & Dennis Hancock, University of Georgia
In 1993, Al and Desiree Wehner came to Georgia to farm in an environmentally and economically sustainable way by using pastures as the primary source of food for their herd. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Deltapine cottonseed was the most planted brand of upland cotton in the United States in 2009, according to USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service....
By Harry Cline, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Experts say only 36 percent of Californians would approve a major water bond issue today in a state that is riddled with debt and a projected continuing budget deficit reaching into the billions....
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