Blueberry growers expanding markets 

Dec 9, 2008,

By Chris Bickers
Contributing Writer

Fruit and vegetable crops offer great potential to Southeastern farmers. ...

Florida vegetable harvest picks up 

Dec 9, 2008

According to the USDA/NASS field office in Florida, some broccoli and cabbage crops were damaged by frost in Columbia County and worms in Duval County during the week ended Dec. 7....

CFTC approves CBOT wheat contract amendments 

Dec 9, 2008

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved amendments to the Chicago Board of Trade’s wheat futures contract. ...

West Virginia to conduct nematode survey 

Dec 9, 2008

It’s not difficult to spot some of the pests that plague West Virginia’s field crops....

Good news hard to find in cotton outlook 

Dec 8, 2008,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

As Gary Adams, vice-president of economic and policy analysis for the National Cotton Council, took the podium to address the Sourcing USA Summit recently in Austin, Texas, someone asked if he had good news about the cotton market....

AFBF: Commitment to market access needed 

Dec 8, 2008

American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman agrees with congressional leaders who have sent a letter to President Bush opposing a December meeting of WTO trade ministers. ...

Commodity Classic offers bright horizons 

Dec 8, 2008

Corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers who attend the 14th Annual Commodity Classic, Feb. 26-28, in Grapevine, Texas, will “discover bright horizons.” ...

Schafer announces beef board appointments 

Dec 8, 2008

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced 32 appointments to the Cattlemen's Beef Promotion and Research Board....

USDA program providing food for hungry 

Dec 5, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Dealing with “surplus” stocks of commodities has often been a contentious issue for farmers and government officials, but USDA appears to have found a way to move those stocks without having an adverse impact on crop prices....

ASA welcomes EU soybean import approval 

Dec 5, 2008

The American Soybean Association (ASA) is pleased to learn that Monsanto’s second generation Roundup Ready soybean called Roundup Ready 2 Yield, also known as event MON 89788, has received regulatory approval for importation in the European Union (EU). ...

World cotton trade decrease forecast 

Dec 5, 2008

The world’s cotton-consuming countries are expected to import less cotton in the coming months as the executives who run their textile mills try to figure out how to survive in a time of decreasing demand for textile and apparel products....

Turfgrass institute scheduled Dec. 10-11 

Dec 5, 2008

Experts from across the Southeast will share their knowledge Dec. 10-11 during the annual Turfgrass Institute and Trade Show at the Gwinnett Civic and Cultural Center in Duluth, Ga....

Salmonella scare costly for Georgia growers 

Dec 4, 2008,

By William Terry Kelley
Extension Horticulturist
University of Georgia

Calling a vegetable season challenging is like calling a blizzard cold — it sort of goes without saying. ...

USDA lowers export forecast for 2009 

Dec 4, 2008

USDA forecast 2009 U.S. agricultural exports at $98.5 billion on Dec. 1, down $14.5 billion from August and $17 billion below record 2008 sales. ...

Report: Kentucky Proud highly successful 

Dec 4, 2008

Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer says a University of Kentucky report identifies Kentucky Proud as a highly successful investment of the Commonwealth’s tobacco settlement funds....

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