March critical time for wheat fertilization 

Mar 6, 2008,

By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The most critical time for nitrogen application on wheat in the upper Southeast is January and February and again at Growth Stage 30, which is usually in early March. ...

NFU delegates ask for quick farm bill action 

Mar 6, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Delegates to the National Farmers Union’s annual meeting in Las Vegas called on the Bush administration and congressional leaders to resolve their differences so a new farm bill can be enacted immediately....

William F. Brown named dean for UT research 

Mar 6, 2008

The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has named William F. Brown Dean for Research and Director of the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station....

Kentucky program sends food from farm to store 

Mar 6, 2008,

By Bob Perry
University of Kentucky

Last year the Kentucky Market Maker team criss-crossed the state teaching farmers and consumers about this new program. We joked among ourselves that we would speak to any group of three or more people!...

Price competition boosting peanuts 

Mar 5, 2008,

By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Competition is good, especially if you’re a peanut producer. “The price competition between crops has definitely raised our prices and has helped our growers in the peanut markets,” says Marshall Lamb, economist and research leader at the National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Ga....

USDA announces no CCPs for corn, soybeans, sorghum 

Mar 5, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

In another indication that farm programs are working as designed, USDA announced no partial 2007-crop-year counter-cyclical payments would be made for corn, grain sorghum, soybeans and other oilseed base acres....

North Carolina's 2008 boll weevil assessment lowered 

Mar 5, 2008

North Carolina’s boll weevil assessment for 2008 has been set at $2.10 per acre, 40 cents less than last year’s fee....

USDA investing in biomass research 

Mar 5, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer says USDA and the Department of Energy will invest up to $18.4 million in 21 biomass research and development and demonstration projects over the next three years. ...

Wheat a mainstay on Alabama farm 

Mar 4, 2008,

By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Like a lot of other farmers in the Southeast this year, Andy Wendland has increased his wheat acreage. But this is not new territory for the central Alabama grower, who says wheat has been a mainstay on his family’s farm for many years....

Kentucky cattlemen face challenging year 

Mar 4, 2008,

By Laura Skillman
University of Kentucky

Kentucky’s beef industry has enjoyed nine profitable years, but 2008 could be a challenge. Higher feed costs are pushing cattle prices down while input costs are rising, putting the squeeze on profits, says an agricultural economist with the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture....

NCGA president: Corn growers need a farm bill 

Mar 4, 2008

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) says work on the farm bill needs to be expedited so producers can make farming decisions for this year and the next. ...

National Agriculture Day is March 20 

Mar 4, 2008

National Agriculture Day takes place on the first day of spring as a way to celebrate American agriculture and the farmers who help provide the food, fiber, shelter, energy and other materials we use on a daily basis....

Cotton industry unhappy with Doha negotiations 

Mar 3, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

After years of seemingly endless ministerial meetings, position papers and, yes, posturing by participants, the Doha Round of the World Trade Organizations seem to be taking a turn for the worse for U.S. cotton....

Deadline near for Tennessee cost share program 

Mar 3, 2008

State Agriculture Commissioner Ken Givens is urging farmers approved for cost share assistance through the Tennessee Agricultural Enhancement Program to make their purchases now in order to receive reimbursement. ...

Kentucky symposium to examine biomass crops 

Mar 3, 2008,

By Carol L. Spence
University of Kentucky

The buzz these days is all about ethanol. And the buzz when talking about ethanol production is often about corn. But University of Kentucky College of Agriculture researchers have been studying the use of other biomass crops to produce energy. ...

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