Kentucky growers harvested record wheat crop 

Oct 3, 2008

Kentucky farmers harvested 32.7 million bushels of winter wheat in the summer of 2008, according to the Kentucky Field Office of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service....

Lawmakers want quick farm bill implementation 

Oct 3, 2008

A bipartisan group of Cotton Belt Senators and House members, led by Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Representatives Etheridge (D-N.C.) and Emerson (R-Mo.), has written Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer to stress that it is inappropriate and unnecessary for USDA to cause serious disruptions in current farming operations by proposing unwarranted changes in the way it makes actively-engaged-in-farming determinations....

USDA to collect county-level land rent rates 

Oct 3, 2008

As directed by the new farm bill, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will for the first time collect and publish county-level data regarding the cash rental rates producers pay for cropland and pastureland....

Worm damage heavy in Alabama cotton 

Oct 2, 2008,

By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The irony of cotton insect control is that you can learn a lot more in a bad year than in a good year, says Ron Smith, Auburn University Extension entomologist....

Kentucky, Tennessee growers make harvest progress 

Oct 2, 2008

Dry weather continued over Kentucky and Tennessee last week, allowing crop harvest to move ahead quickly....

Georgia drought worsens 

Oct 2, 2008,

By David Emory Stooksbury
University of Georgia

Tropical Storm Fay brought beneficial rain to Georgia in late August. ...

USDA issues $1.8 billion in CRP payments 

Oct 2, 2008

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced that USDA will distribute $1.8 billion in Conservation Reserve Program rental payments to participants across the country for fiscal year 2009....

'Demand certificates' proposed for futures contracts 

Oct 1, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The National Grain and Feed Association says forcing managed index and pension funds to “take delivery” on commodities such as wheat may be one way to solve the lack of convergence on Chicago Board of Trade futures contracts....

Rains slow harvest in upper Southeast 

Oct 1, 2008

Rainfall from a storm that developed off the East Coast brought rainfall to many areas of the upper Southeast last week, slowing harvest operations but bringing much needed moisture for forages and land destined for small grains....

Congress suspends base acre provision, extends signup 

Oct 1, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Congress has passed bipartisan legislation aimed at righting a USDA misinterpretation of the farm bill base acre provision....

Georgia sets wheat yield record 

Oct 1, 2008

Small grain plantings for 2008 progressed at a normal pace in the fall of 2007, according to the USDA, NASS, Georgia Field Office. ...

Lower Southeast crop harvest surges ahead 

Sep 30, 2008

A dry week across the lower Southeast region allowed crop harvest to push ahead, even though the droughty conditions led to other problems....

Broker expects grain market stabilization  

Sep 30, 2008,

By Peter Hull
Clemson University

Many growers across South Carolina have felt like they were on a roller coaster ride during the last two years, but smoother times are around the corner, according to a leading commodities broker....

Biofuels surge slows in Southeast 

Sep 30, 2008,

By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Grain prices are good, and look to stay up for a while, but the main cause most widely attributed to these prices — biofuels — is just not happening in the Southeast....

ASA offers college scholarship opportunity 

Sep 30, 2008

The American Soybean Association will again offer the Secure Optimal Yield (SOY) Scholarship for the 2009-10 school year. ...

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