By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA’s Sept. 12 crop report may have understated demand for corn, while over-estimating average corn and soybean yields, according to analysts at a CME Group press briefing....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA’s September crop report forecasts smaller U.S. corn and soybean crops and slightly larger cotton and rice production than last month. ...
Based on a survey of Georgia growers contacted around Sept. 1, crop yields for tobacco, cotton and corn all showed slight decreases from the previous month....
The American Soybean Association (ASA) believes its many years of farm and trade policy work, and its long history of building export markets, has been largely responsible for the record level of U.S. soybean exports reported last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). ...
By Stephanie Schupska
University of Georgia
Poultry litter usually draws attention for its smell. ...
Exciting new information will be available to growers this fall using the FIT mapping service from Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business. ...
Remnants of Hurricane Gustav moved through large portions of Kentucky and Tennessee last week, bringing some much needed rainfall to the two states....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Some producers attending this year’s Milan No-Till Crop Production field day told University of Tennessee Weed Scientist Larry Steckel that the target date of 2013 for commercialization of dicamba-resistant soybeans just isn’t soon enough....
Hurricane Hannah brought copious amounts of rainfall to most of the upper Southeast last week, with most areas being spared crop damage....
The American Soybean Association (ASA) is pleased that final regulatory approval has been received in China for the importation of Monsanto's second generation Roundup Ready soybean called Roundup Ready 2 Yield, also known as event MON 89788, which Monsanto anticipates bringing to the U.S. market in 2009....
Early peanut and soybean harvest got under way this past week in the lower Southeast region, even though some growers were still assessing tropical storm damage. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Research on Asian soybean rust in north Florida is a little too close for comfort for Mississippi soybean producers and Mississippi State University Extension leaders, who believe an untimely storm could spread research spores into commercial production areas....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Despite a drought that is well into its third year, growers in the lower Southeast are expecting mostly better yields this year than in 2007, thanks primarily to some well-timed rainfall over the region, according to this year’s first crop production forecast from the National Agricultural Statistics Service....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
The risk of damage and yield loss from soybean rust has subsided for crops in the state that are at or past the R5, or beginning seed, stage, according to a University of Kentucky plant pathologist....
Virginia soybean producers are currently expected to harvest 530,000 acres with an average yield of 29 bushels per acre....
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer has announced 19 appointments and two alternate appointments to the United Soybean Board that includes two members from South Carolina....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Kendall Hill is a third generation sweet potato farmer in Kinston, N.C. Never before in the history of Tull Hill Farms has efficiency been so critical to survival, he says....
Dry, hot weather has returned to the Kentucky, Tennessee region with row crops and forages beginning to suffer....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s back to counting beans for growers throughout the Southeast, as the lure of high prices and low inputs has combined to spur a dramatic increase in soybean acreage....
Portions of South Carolina received appreciable rain from Tropical Storm Fay last week, but most growers in North Carolina and Virginia were not so fortunate....
It wasn’t too long ago that a soybean grower in the Southeast or Mid-South wouldn’t even have considered applying a seed treatment to his crop. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Paul Davis preaches the virtues of soil improvement from no-till, never-fallow farming as part of his job as New Kent County Virginia Extension Coordinator. ...
Tropical Storm Fay was the big story in the lower Southeast this past week as most of the area received copious amounts of rainfall, and in some cases, damaging winds. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Economics and agronomics appear to be in harmony for the 2008 soybean crop, leaving growers hopeful for both a big and a profitable crop....
Like the great American president Abraham Lincoln, the fuel of his traveling bicentennial exhibition will be “Made in America.”...
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