Jul 8, 2009 9:52 AM
Chemtura Crop Protection is pleased to announce that Dimilin 2L is now approved for control of the lesser cornstalk borer (LCB) in peanuts, giving growers a more convenient and cost-effective weapon for controlling the destructive pest this growing season. ...
Jul 7, 2009 9:51 AM, By Chris Bickers, Contributing Writer
As in most of the Southeastern states, peanut acreage in Virginia and North Carolina will definitely fall below projections because of the soggy spring weather conditions....
Jul 7, 2009 9:38 AM, By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The 11th Annual Southern Peanut Growers Conference is scheduled for July 12-14, at the Edgewater Beach Resort in Panama City Beach, Fla. ...
Jul 6, 2009 9:39 AM, By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Weldon Shook has always wanted to farm. He grew up on a farm near Seagraves, Texas, and told his dad early on that he wanted to pursue that career....
Jul 6, 2009 9:27 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
One of the biggest benefits to growing peanuts in Mississippi has been the relative lack of disease pressure compared to other more established growing regions of the Southeast....
Jul 6, 2009 9:10 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Earlier this year, more than 80 growers from Mississippi’s three major peanut-growing areas gathered in Hattiesburg, Miss., for the second annual Mississippi Peanut Growers Association meeting and short course. ...
Jul 1, 2009 1:08 PM, By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
T.E. Moye, Jr., of Newton, Ga., says there isn’t just one key to efficient peanut production, but rather it’s a combination of several things. ...
News from the Farm BillHouse votes to suspend base acre provisionSep 26, 2008 9:14 AM The House passed legislation supported by both parties that would suspend for the 2008 and 2009 crop years a farm bill provision that required producers to have a minimum of 10-base acres to receive program benefits. ... Senators, ag secretary spar over ACRE provisionsSep 16, 2008 10:21 AM, By Forrest Laws A group of farm-state senators led by Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin is asking Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer to stop trying to re-write the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 through the regulations implementing the new farm bill.... ACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmersJul 15, 2008 9:34 AM, By Forrest Laws The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ... Farm bill, flooding: Economist Daryll RayJul 9, 2008 9:57 AM, By David Bennett After the first round of producer organization-sponsored farm bill meetings, Southeast farmers still have plenty of questions about the new legislation.... |
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