Wheat harvest winding down in lower Southeast 

Jun 24, 2008

Growers in the lower Southeast who were lucky enough to receive showers over the last week were busy planting double-crop soybeans behind a relatively high-yielding wheat crop that was mostly harvested. ...

Rising rivers threaten Kentucky crops 

Jun 24, 2008,

By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky

Recent flooding along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers left some western Kentucky crops in low lying fields underwater. ...

Alabama to hold precision agriculture field day 

Jun 24, 2008,

By Jim Langcuster
Auburn University

Farmers from Alabama and neighboring states keen on earning more by using less will have the chance to learn how at a precision agricultural field day scheduled Thursday, July 10 in northwest Alabama....

Peanuts good to South Carolina grower 

Jun 23, 2008,

By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

William James and his brothers Whit and Hastings didn’t exactly grow up on a farm, but they did grow up in agriculture. Their father, Arthur James, operated a cotton gin and other agri-businesses giving the James brothers a keen sense of the value of a dollar and its relation to hard work....

Experts lower estimates for 2008 cotton crop 

Jun 23, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Cotton production in the two top-producing states is off to a slow start, which could result in a significantly smaller 2008 U.S. cotton crop this fall of between 12 million and 13 million bales, according to market analysts. USDA has projected a U.S. cotton crop of 14.5 million bales....

Soy leaders meet with Senators on food prices 

Jun 23, 2008

The American Soybean Association (ASA) met with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and members of the Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee recently to discuss rising food prices and what can be done to increase crop production around the world. ...

Virginia awards specialty crop block grants 

Jun 23, 2008

Todd P. Haymore, Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), has announced funding for nine agriculture-related projects which will help open markets for Virginia farm products and promote specialty crops in Virginia. ...

Virginia ethanol plant to use local barley 

Jun 20, 2008,

By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The announcement that the proposed 60 million gallon per year ethanol plant to be built in Hopewell, Va. will operate primarily on barley has Virginia and North Carolina grain growers buzzing with the possibilities....

Kentucky tobacco growers scouting for blue mold 

Jun 20, 2008,

By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky

With reports of blue mold as far north as southern Virginia, Kentucky tobacco producers should begin scouting their fields and thinking about taking measures to prevent the disease, said Kenny Seebold, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture extension plant pathologist....

USDA to update crop survey due to flooding 

Jun 20, 2008

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is taking several steps to assess the impact on the 2008 crop acreage from the impact of the extraordinary rainfall and flooding in the Midwest....

No-till grass drills arrive in North Carolina 

Jun 20, 2008

North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler has announced the arrival of a load of equipment that farmers in five Piedmont soil and water conservation districts can rent to renovate pastures damaged by drought....

Georgia order suspends tax on dyed diesel 

Jun 20, 2008,

By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Georgia farmers will get some slight relief from soaring fuel costs thanks to an order signed recently by the governor that temporarily suspends the state’s 4 percent sales tax on dyed diesel fuels....

It's time to re-think corn irrigation 

Jun 19, 2008,

By Eddie McGiff
Extension Coordinator
Coffee County, Ga.

Recently, a corn farmer asked me if he needed to irrigate his corn now. ...

Kentucky, Tennessee wheat growers harvesting big crop 

Jun 19, 2008

Early reports from the wheat harvest in Kentucky and Tennessee showed some excellent yields, some so good combines were being slowed....

Congress overrides farm bill veto — again 

Jun 19, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

In an unusual case of farm bill déjà vu, Congress voted yesterday to override President Bush’s second veto of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act....

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