By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Fair warning American agriculture: When California leads, the nation bleeds....
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. ...
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....
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....
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....
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)....
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....
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....
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 Agriculture & Industries Commissioner Ron Sparks has expressed his concern for farmers as the drought continues to worsen across most of the state. ...
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....
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. ...
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: ...
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. ...
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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