By Sharon Dowdy
University of Georgia
When it comes to food, perceived danger can be as harmful as a real one, especially to a farmer’s wallet. ...
The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) has announced the suspension of the grain marketing program and certification mark, Market Choices, which will be phased out by the fall of 2009. ...
By Lewis Campbell
Before we take a look ahead to the 2008-2009 growing season, let us take a quick look back at where we have been over the last two years. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Nov. 4 presidential elections could do more than determine the path of the United States for the next four years. They could also determine the future of the Doha Round, a former U.S. Trade Representative says....
Mexico has the potential to increase its imports of distiller’s dried grains (DDGS) with solubles by four-fold, according to Julio Hernandez, U.S. Grains Council director in Mexico and Central America, speaking at the Council’s International Distillers Grains Conference in Indianapolis, Ind....
Information on fertilizer supply and demand, seed technology and the current food price situation will be on the agenda at The Fertilizer Institute’s Fertilizer Outlook and Technology Conference, Nov. 11-13 in Charleston, S.C....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
The state's winter wheat acreage likely will decrease this year because of high input costs and lower commodity prices, said specialists with the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture....
By Peter Kent
Clemson University
To reduce the Southeast’s dependence on oil, Clemson University will lead a $1.2 million bioethanol research project to find the best way to produce plant-based fuels in the region....
The U.S. ethanol industry will continue to grow in 2009, creating a substantial increase in the supply of distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of ethanol, according to Ken Hobbie, president and CEO of the U.S. Grains Council....
Deputy Administrator of Cotton and Tobacco Programs for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Darryl W. Earnest, has approved both the Cotton Board’s and Cotton Incorporated’s 2009 budgets. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Before deciding whether you want to sign up for the farm bill’s new ACRE program, or stick with the counter-cyclical program, be sure to do your homework, says John Robinson, Texas A&M Extension economist for cotton marketing....
The National Corn Growers Association and several of its state affiliates have prepared a computer program that performs detailed benefit analysis of producer operations under traditional farm programs versus the new optional Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program....
Soybean harvest in Kentucky and Tennessee reached the half way point last week as fairly open weather prevailed over the two states....
In the year ahead, U.S. farmers will probably continue to realize fairly strong cash receipts, but by the same token they will see significant increases in input costs. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Three relatively new corn herbicides, Callisto, Impact and Laudis, all from the hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD)-inhibiting family of chemistry offer growers some highly efficient options for managing corn weeds and grasses and at the same time help reduce herbicide resistance problems....
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