You may be a better nuclear physicist than Ted Smiley. ...
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....
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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....
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. ...
Georgia has been put under a federal quarantine to help prevent the spread of a devastating citrus disease....
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) has announced a temporary quarantine on the movement of regulated articles in the lower Peninsula and greater Tidewater areas of Southeastern Virginia to areas outside the quarantined localities for the purpose of preventing the artificial spread of the Red Imported Fire Ant to uninfested areas of the state. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A few hours after brokering a deal on the House climate bill, Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, explained why compromise was necessary, how the controversial indirect land use provisions will be handled and repeatedly commented on the mutual distrust between agriculture and the EPA....
Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson has announced restrictions on the importation of animals from states affected with vesicular stomatitis following a confirmed case in Texas, the first such case reported in the United States since 2006....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If you’re going to come up with a plan for managing insects in conventional cotton, you need to take a step back in time to the pre-pyrethroid days in 1976, says Auburn University Extension Entomologist Ron Smith....
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