V. Mac Baldwin Sunbelt Farmer of the Year for North Carolina 

Oct 9, 2008

Von M. “V. Mac” Baldwin of Yanceyville, N.C., has carved out a unique market in the beef business by selling fresh and frozen cuts of his grass-fed Charolais cattle directly to organic stores and consumers....

Kent Wannamaker is Sunbelt Farmer of the Year for South Carolina 

Oct 9, 2008

Kendall “Kent” Wannamaker of St. Matthews, S.C., is proof that a farmer can get a strong start in farming by renting land for growing crops, even with little in the way of initial financial resources. ...

Strip-till, drip irrigation work well in tobacco 

Oct 7, 2008,

By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Virginia Tobacco Specialist David Reed says going no-till with tobacco has been a long process, but combined with drip irrigation it may be a long-term solution for tobacco growers in the state....

Harvest progress varies across upper Southeast 

Oct 7, 2008

A combination of recent rainfall and a delayed planting season last spring has Virginia growers running to catch up with harvest. ...

Loretta Lyons Sunbelt Farmer of the Year for Kentucky 

Oct 7, 2008

During 1976 at age 34, Loretta Lyons was suddenly widowed when Hade Lyons, the teacher and farmer she married, suffered a fatal heart attack on the first day of spring....

Gibb Steele III Sunbelt Farmer of the Year for Mississippi 

Oct 7, 2008

Far from the main roads and deep in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, you’ll find the farm of Claude Gibson “Gibb” Steele III. Don’t blink or you’ll likely miss his farm headquarters that’s the focal point of downtown Longwood, Miss. Longwood is so small, it doesn’t have a Post Office. That’s why Steele gets his mail from nearby Hollandale, Miss. ...

Cotton harvest progressing in lower Southeast 

Oct 7, 2008

A week of dry weather allowed lower Southeast growers to make rapid progress with cotton harvest. ...

Randy Strode Sunbelt Farmer of the Year for Florida 

Oct 7, 2008

In 1975, Illinois native Randall E. “Randy” Strode took a leave of absence from his high school basketball coaching and biology teaching job to come to Florida. ...

Wayne McKinnon Sunbelt Farmer of the Year for Georgia 

Oct 7, 2008

Clayton “Wayne” McKinnon of Douglas, Ga., runs a farm that embodies hard work, agricultural diversity and family farming. ...

U.S. seeks monitoring of Chinese textile imports 

Oct 7, 2008

Cotton Belt congressional members have joined their colleagues and the U.S. cotton and textile industry in a call to broaden a key textile import monitoring program....

How valuable is peanut hay? 

Oct 6, 2008,

By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff

How much fertilizer nutrients do you remove when you bale peanut vines?...

Lamar Dewberry Sunbelt Farmer of the Year for Alabama 

Oct 6, 2008

Using little more than a teacher’s salary, Lamar Dewberry of Lineville, Ala., has amassed 730 acres of productive timberland, a renewable and sustainable resource that is now paying good income to support his second career as a farmer. ...

Brian Kirksey Sunbelt Farmer of the Year for Arkansas 

Oct 6, 2008

Deep in the woods of southwest Arkansas, fourth generation farmer Brian Kirksey of Amity, Ark., found a way to stay on the farm by growing nursery plants for the wholesale market. ...

Cotton Board elects officers 

Oct 6, 2008

The Cotton Board recently elected its officers for the 2009 calendar year. ...

Cotton defoliation timing critical 

Oct 3, 2008,

By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

With so many effective cotton defoliants available to growers, sometimes optimum use depends more on when defoliants are used rather than which of these products a grower uses....

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