Pyrethroid re-evaluation will reach far beyond California 

Aug 28, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Fair warning American agriculture: When California leads, the nation bleeds....

Equipment Forum: Deere introduces STS combines 

Aug 28, 2007

New technology in planting, tilling and spraying crops leads to higher, denser yields per acre. This creates new challenges in harvesting more acres, while managing higher levels of crop residue. ...

Crop conditions continue decline 

Aug 28, 2007

Southeast crops continue to suffer under widespread drouth and extreme temperatures. Although showers were received during the past week they did little to alleviate long-term problems....

Bears, bulls tugging on cotton prices 

Aug 27, 2007,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The cotton market turned bearish on news that USDA could again make upward adjustments in the size of last year’s Chinese and Indian cotton crops, reducing China’s import needs and correspondingly, U.S. exports....

Care with modules pays dividends 

Aug 27, 2007,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

A poorly-built module: $200. A worn, holey module cover: $450. Those are amounts growers can lose from a module that isn’t built well and/or is poorly protected from the elements, says Rick Byler, agricultural engineer and research leader for the USDA’s Cotton Ginning Laboratory at Stoneville, Miss....

End of an oil era? 

Aug 27, 2007,

By Jim Langcuster
Auburn University

Just as the 20th century will be remembered as the age of oil, the 21st century possibly may be recalled as the age when humans, however reluctantly and painfully, learned to live with less oil, writes William Rees-Mogg today in the Times (of London)....

Equipment Forum: Orthman introduces dry fertilizer cart 

Aug 27, 2007

Orthman Manufacturing recently introduced the all new Orthman Atlas Dry Fertilizer Lifting Cart. This product integration provides new and existing Orthman 1-tRIPr Strip-Till customers an opportunity to increase fertilizer carrying capacity, further enhancing field productivity....

Research campus boosts Carolina vegetable industry 

Aug 24, 2007,

Roy Roberson

North Carolina has long been one of the top agricultural producing states east of the Mississippi River and a bold new research effort being financed primarily by private industry offers some interesting and challenging new directions for the state’s agricultural industry....

Contract an important tool for cotton ginners 

Aug 24, 2007,

Hembree Brandon

Ginners may pay thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for a piece of equipment, says John Lewis, but many spend little or nothing on a very important piece of paper — a legal contract....

Alabama drought worsens 

Aug 24, 2007

Alabama Agriculture & Industries Commissioner Ron Sparks has expressed his concern for farmers as the drought continues to worsen across most of the state. ...

Recertification clocks ticking for South Carolina pesticide applicators 

Aug 24, 2007

South Carolina’s pesticide applicators are reminded to look for opportunities to obtain continuing certification hours before time runs out. Two deadlines should be kept in mind — Dec. 31, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2009....

Herbicide resistant weeds dealing more misery 

Aug 23, 2007,

By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The spread of ALS-resistant, dinitroanalin resistant and glyphosate resistant weeds is dealing more misery to peanut and cotton growers throughout the Southeast in 2007. ...

Johanns unhappy with House legislation 

Aug 23, 2007,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

With the House farm bill proposal passed, the Senate proposal coming and Congress in recess, USDA head Mike Johanns visited RFD-TV studios in Nashville, Tenn., to again push the Bush administration proposal and jab at alternatives. Johanns was clearly unimpressed with the House plan and repeatedly said it would reward too many large farms while shorting rural infrastructure needs. Among Johann’s comments: ...

Georgia, North Carolina firms awarded energy loans 

Aug 23, 2007

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns has announced the award of $97 million in guaranteed loans to help businesses in Georgia, Illinois and North Carolina create jobs and develop renewable energy systems. ...

Freeze taught strawberry growers hard lessons 

Aug 23, 2007,

By Chris Bickers
Contributing Writer

The freeze that decimated many southern crops last Easter taught strawberry growers some hard lessons. But Barclay Poling, small fruits specialist for the North Carolina Extension Service, says the basic message is clear — growers need to be prepared to use row covers as well as irrigation to save their crops from freezing weather, and they need to do it with precision....

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