By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A U.S. cotton grower takes enormous risks, but unlike most farmers, his risk doesn’t end when the crop is harvested. With approximately 75 percent of U.S.-grown cotton going overseas, a real risk comes after the crop is harvested....
By Chris Bickers
Contributing Writer
Despite unusually high prices for hay, don’t look for a lot of new land to come into forages in the two major forage-producing states of Kentucky and Tennessee, say Extension personnel....
By Alfredo Flores
United States Department of Agriculture
Concerns about long-term effects of beef cattle browsing more than 11 million acres of Florida grazing lands led Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists to examine soil fertility changes in bahiagrass-based beef cattle pastures from 1988 to 2002. ...
By Margaret Bell
North Carolina State University
The North Carolina State University Animal Science Club and the Animal Science Department are planning their Sixth Annual Alumni Reunion for Friday, April 4th, 2008 at the Beef Education Unit on Lake Wheeler Road in Raleigh....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Wheat acreage is up across the upper Southeast, indicating an increase in double-crop soybeans in the 2008 season. By making some critical management decisions now, growers can increase their chances of a top crop this fall....
By Laura Skillman
University of Kentucky
Recent storms damaged or destroyed numerous tobacco housing and curing facilities across Kentucky. Whether to replace a facility and what type of facility to rebuild are important decisions for tobacco producers....
By Jan Suszkiw
United States Department of Agriculture
Following up on a net-energy study published in the January Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) scientists reports the on-farm economic costs of producing switchgrass for cellulosic ethanol....
Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson announced today that two North Florida properties have qualified for recognition as Century Pioneer Family Farms. ...
The Senate passed an extension of the 2002 farm bill to give its and House Agriculture Committee leaders more time to try to reach an agreement with the White House on a new farm bill....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When Mike Marshall was appointed as a South Carolina Extension weed scientist at the end of 2007 one challenge was made very clear — Palmer pigweed in cotton. The challenge, he admits, is a formidable one, but one that can be managed....
By Jim Langcuster
Alabama Cooperative Extension System
Spiking grain prices have inspired some producers to build grain bins for the first time ever or after a lapse of years to capitalize on these premium prices....
By Ann Perry
United States Department of Agriculture
Underground phosphorus deposits around the world are mined for use as a much-valued fertilizer. Now Agricultural Research Service (ARS) soil scientists Ariel Szogi, Matias Vanotti and Patrick Hunt have found a way to “mine” the phosphorus in poultry manure....
Responding to President Bush's call for governments around the world to accelerate the development of renewable energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced USDA's wide-ranging initiative at the Washington International Energy Conference....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. winter fresh-market vegetable and melon area for harvest, which covers January through March, is expected to decline by 3 percent from that of a year earlier, according to the USDA’s latest Vegetables and Melons Outlook. This estimate does not include onions....
By Henry Dorough
Regional Extension Agent, Animal Science and Forages
and
Charles Mitchell
Extension Agronomist-Soils, Alabama Cooperative Extension System
Today’s cattle producers are facing record-high fertilizer prices. Adding insult to injury, this is on top of two years of record-drought causing poor growth of pastures and hayfields. Because of this, farmers are shopping around for any cheap source of nitrogen (N) and praying for rain to bring their forages back to life. ...
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