Spring best time to identify cogongrass 

Mar 23, 2009,

By Brad Haire
University of Georgia

Cogongrass can completely take over a forested area, smothering out all other vegetation and changing the ecosystem....

Florida's environmental awards deadline is April 1 

Mar 23, 2009

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson has announced that the deadline for submitting nominations for the Commissioner's 2009 Agriculture Environmental Leadership Awards is April 1....

Florida commissioner joins ag day recognition 

Mar 20, 2009

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson is joining state agriculture officials across the nation to recognize Friday, March 20, as National Agriculture Day....

Tennessee ag Web site gets fresh look 

Mar 20, 2009,

By Ginger Trice
University of Tennessee

The Web site devoted to Tennessee’s major field crops has a new design and some added features that researchers say will help the state’s producers better manage their 2009 crops....

Sod-based rotations a fit for the Deep South 

Mar 19, 2009,

By Paul Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The fertile ground of the U.S. Midwest is ample proof that a sod-based rotation can be beneficial, says David Wright, University of Florida Extension agronomist....

When does spring really begin? 

Mar 19, 2009,

By David Stooksbury
University of Georgia

When does spring begin? Well, it depends on whom you ask....

Cotton Council elects state unit officers 

Mar 19, 2009

National Cotton Council state unit officers for 2009 were elected at the industrywide organization’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C....

Agribusiness: Pioneer introducing 16 new soybean varieties 

Mar 19, 2009

You can’t blame Pioneer seed customers for not being able to tell all the company’s players without a program this spring....

CBR problems spreading across peanut belt 

Mar 18, 2009,

By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Cylindrocladium black rot is not a new disease to peanut growers, but it continues to slowly spread across the Southeastern peanut production belt and is a particularly big threat to Virginia type peanuts....

No-till cotton production proves worth 

Mar 18, 2009,

By Ann Perry
United States Department of Agriculture

The costs and benefits of using conservation-tillage in cotton production can be calculated a bit more precisely, thanks to teamwork by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist and his research partner....

Vilsack announces disaster assistance update 

Mar 18, 2009

The recently approved American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) allows producers to become eligible for 2008 disaster assistance authorized by the 2008 farm bill even if they did not previously obtain otherwise statutorily required crop insurance from the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) or Non-insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) coverage for 2008 by now paying a buy-in fee through May 18, 2009. ...

USDA under secretaries announced 

Mar 18, 2009

President Barack Obama has announced his intention to nominate James W. (Jim) Miller to be under secretary of agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services and Dallas P. Tonsager to be under secretary of agriculture for Rural Development....

Scientists study soybean disease resistance 

Mar 17, 2009,

By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky

Each year, soybean producers spend countless hours preventing and combating diseases that annually result in a 14 percent yield loss to the crop in the United States. ...

Florida growers entering early peach market 

Mar 17, 2009,

By Tom Thomas
Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services

Newly developed varieties of peaches that grow well in Florida's sub-tropical climate will enable consumers to enjoy fresh domestic peaches in the spring — nearly three months ahead of the traditional beginning of the U.S. summer peach crop....

Concrete, steel 'will rebuild economy' 

Mar 16, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

With a big investment in concrete and steel, agriculture and the world economy could blow right through today’s recession into global prosperity, according to Bruce Scherr, chairman, Informa Economics, Inc....

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