By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The National Grain and Feed Association is recommending that USDA not develop standards for biofuel products — such as distiller’s dried grains or DDGs — because existing government and industry frameworks for such products are working....
Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner has announced the appointment of 17 members and 17 alternate members to the Cotton Board, as well as one vacant alternate member position in Mississippi created by a resignation. ...
Dan Bagan, senior vice-president of Penton Media’s Food Retail Group, has been promoted to senior vice-president of the newly formed Agricultural and Food Group....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Growing no-till cotton in eastern North Carolina is still far from the norm, but for Trenton, N.C., growers Mike and Timmy Haddock it was the only way to offset the cost of labor, equipment, pesticides, fuel, and fertilizer....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Escalating index fund investment in the U.S. commodity markets may rival the dot.com bubble in terms of capital, risk and uncertainty, noted Peter Egli, an analyst with Plexus Cotton Ltd., speaking at the Ag Market Network’s December teleconference....
By Don Comis
United States Department of Agriculture
Heping Zhu and Adam Clark at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Application Technology Research Unit, Wooster, Ohio, have developed an easy-to-use and easy-to-build portable instrument so that farmers and greenhouse growers can test the accuracy of their pressure gauges....
Farm Foundation will lead an examination of the impacts of the first decade of crop biotechnology and the opportunities and challenges for the second decade at a conference Jan. 16-17....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For years, farmers who planted no-till were said to be “farming ugly.” But nothing about the soil and water-conserving and cost-reducing practices of no-till or reduced-tillage is ugly for the winners of this year’s High Cotton awards....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Some people see a glass half empty; others, one half full. Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner, clearly a member of the former camp, thinks it’s time for Congress to seize on a glass full of high prices and “reform” farm programs....
Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner has reappointed one member and one alternate member to serve on the National Peanut Board....
The agenda has been released for the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008). Cabinet-level government officials from more than 70 countries will join civil society partners and private sector leaders to discuss the opportunities and challenges of a global, rapid deployment of renewable energy....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
“Beans in the teens.” Soybean futures aren’t quite there yet — January was trading at $12.45 as this is being written — but the highest prices in decades could help soybeans recover nearly 10 percent of their acreage and perhaps push back above the 70-million-acre mark in 2008....
By Bob Goodman
Extension Economist, Auburn University
Is it possible the U.S. cotton crop in 2008 will drop to 10 million acres? I don’t know, but I would certainly put our acreage here in Alabama down again this season, by an appropriately large percentage. ...
Canada’s 12th indigenous case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is the latest source of alarm for the U.S. Department of Agriculture....
Commodity Classic attendees will enjoy an exclusive show at the Grand Ole Opry during the Evening of Entertainment at the 2008 convention and trade show, Feb. 28 to March 1 in Nashville, Tenn....
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