By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Obama administration appears to be having second thoughts about its proposal to phase out direct payments to agribusinesses with sales of more than $500,000 and replace them with “green” payments....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA is projecting a world cotton crop for 2009-2010 of 107 million bales, a 2.3 percent decline from the previous year and the lowest output since 2003-04....
By David Emory Stooksbury
University of Georgia
Due to an abnormally dry January and February, drought conditions have returned to much of Georgia. ...
Claims filed by Florida growers against agricultural dealers have increased dramatically this year, according to Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles H. Bronson. ...
With 236 companies exhibiting in 943 booths, the 2009 Commodity Classic Trade Show set a record in Grapevine, Texas, for the largest show in the history of Commodity Classic....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA analysts are projecting 2009 U.S. cotton plantings at 8.5 million acres, which is slightly higher than the 8.11 million acres projected by the National Cotton Council’s Annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey, released Feb. 13....
Farmers are expected to plant fewer acres not only in the United States but in the rest of the cotton-producing world in 2009-10, economists with the International Cotton Advisory Committee said....
By Roy Smith
The first impression I get looking at this year’s crop insurance decision is that not much has changed. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Government regulatory agencies in South Korea have given approval to imports of two new biotech-enhanced soybean varieties – Roundup Ready 2 Yield from Monsanto and LibertyLink from Bayer CropScience – from the United States....
Todd Haymore, Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), has appealed to all people in the state to support Virginia’s peanut industry which has been hit hard by a drop in consumption due to the recall of peanut products from a manufacturer in Georgia. ...
“I’ve never seen farmers so undecided about what they intend to plant this late in the season.” ...
The need to emphasize rural development issues such as high-speed Internet access, improved healthcare services, enhanced education and improved infrastructure is growing in importance to America’s farm and ranch families, according to American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman....
Twenty thousand potential buyers are expected to descend on Louisville March 6-8 to attend 12 purebred cattle shows and sales at the 23rd annual Kentucky Farm Bureau Beef Expo at the Kentucky Exposition Center....
By Paul Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
State legislatures throughout the Southeast are currently dealing with some of the worst budget crises seen in decades, and most farm group leaders agree that in many cases, decisions will have to be made to either cut services or raise taxes....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Two of the top Democrats on the Senate Agriculture Committee are praising President Obama’s new “honesty in budgeting” approach. ...
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