Southeast Farm Press News Archive

GMO peanuts could improve production efficiency

Apr 21, 2008,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

When agriculture leaps the high hurdle of negative public opinion regarding transgenic crops, the peanut industry hopes to offer new products with improved health benefits and production advantages....

Manzate gets local-need label for Kentucky tobacco

Apr 21, 2008,

By Kenny Seebold
University of Kentucky

Kentucky tobacco producers are facing a national shortage of a product they normally use to combat diseases such as blue mold in their float systems and fields. ...

Virginia extends hay hauler exemptions

Apr 21, 2008

At the request of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) authorized motor carrier exemptions to hours worked, and the Virginia Departments of Transportation and Motor Vehicles granted temporary waivers of registration and license requirements along with normal weight and width restrictions for carriers transporting emergency supplies of hay or animal feed. ...

Five Florida families receive Century Farm designation

Apr 21, 2008

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson has announced that five Florida properties have qualified for recognition as Century Pioneer Family Farms. ...

Rising oil prices challenging agriculture

Apr 18, 2008,

By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Corn for ethanol production has gotten the most ink, but Kendall Keith, executive director of the National Feed and Grain Dealers Association, says the demand for agricultural products and challenges to U.S. farmers goes much deeper....

Southeast growers showing positive attitude

Apr 18, 2008,

By Chris Bickers
Contributing Writer

Financing was sometimes a problem and some machinery just cost too much, but the Southeast farmers who attended machinery shows this past winter seemed to have a more positive attitude than in the recent past....

Tennessee wheat growers warned about armyworms

Apr 18, 2008

University of Tennessee Extension entomologist Russ Patrick warns Tennessee producers that armyworms may be waiting to devour their wheat crop....

North Carolina seeks to extend organic grains production

Apr 18, 2008

Two recent grants will support the organic grains program at North Carolina State University and provide education to promote the production of organic grain in the state, according to Chris Reberg-Horton, assistant professor of crop science and organic cropping specialist in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences....

Big grain crop may test infrastructure

Apr 17, 2008,

By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Wheat acreage is expected to increase in 2008 in some Southeastern states by more than 25 percent from 2006/2007 planting and harvest. Soybeans, especially in double-crop situations with wheat, are also expected to increase, as is corn at over $5 per bushel....

House approves short farm bill extension

Apr 17, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The new farm bill’s conference committee met twice Wednesday afternoon and nearly completed a new forestry title. The farm bill is slowly taking shape, but slowly won’t get the job done in time to beat Friday’s deadline. ...

Rains slowing field work in Kentucky

Apr 17, 2008,

By Laura Skillman
University of Kentucky

When the calendar turns to April, farm work normally is in high gear. But soggy fields are staying soggy, leaving the state’s grain producers with little opportunity to get any work accomplished. ...

Alabama growers cautioned about grain sales

Apr 17, 2008

Current high grain prices have given Alabama producers a chance to have a profitable year. As a precaution, Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries’ Commissioner Ron Sparks warns that the high and volatile grain prices can cause certain problems in the grain industry. ...

Financing of new farm bill still bogged down, deadline looms

Apr 16, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Not long after the farm bill conference committee was gaveled back in session on Tuesday morning, several key legislators, with the encouragement of their colleagues, headed to a negotiating session of their own. With a Friday deadline looming, Charlie Rangel, House Ways and Means chairman, and Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee chairman, are attempting to untangle a knot of funding issues outside the main conference. As of Wednesday morning, there’d been no word of their success....

Consider all costs of on-farm grain storage

Apr 16, 2008,

By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff

With seemingly ever-increasing corn prices, many growers are rushing to construct on-farm storage facilities. But it’s important to consider all costs — including those pesky hidden ones — before making such an investment decision, says Audrey Luke-Morgan of the University of Georgia Center for Agribusiness & Economic Development (CAED)....