The North Florida Research and Education Center is a collection of dated-looking, low-slung buildings surrounded by fields that look like anywhere else....More
The United States Department of Labor was correct in reversing its decision to impose severe restrictions on the tasks young people may perform on family farms....More
Growing flax is a little like jumping out of an airplane in that you had better be prepared and you had better be committed, says Pamplico, S.C., farmer and agri-businessman Tom Kemp....More
The recent theft of a massive quantity of corn feed from a central Alabama mill underscores why farmers should take special safeguards against farm theft, especially in these hard economic times....More
With good crops and good prices in 2011, many Mississippi farmers were able to pay off or substantially pay down loans, says Abbott Myers, chairman of the board of Mississippi Land Bank....More
A warm winter, an exceptionally warm March, heavy and early thrips flights — all the elements seem to be coming together for the perfect storm of damage to cotton for 2012....More
There are two concepts for making fertilizer recommendations. Both take the same soil test, but they usually result in two very different fertilizer recommendations....More
The sweet aroma of Southern pine tree snags smoldering on a warm spring afternoon is a fragrance most appreciated when standing on the safe side of a secure fireline....More
As with most innovations in farming, the bottom line in determining whether or not to adopt is cost, and subsurface drip irrigation has proven no different....More
Renting pasture for grazing livestock is a fairly common practice, but one a Purdue Extension forage specialist says landowners and producers need to carefully discuss....More
The American Soybean Association (ASA) joined counterparts from the commodity, dairy, livestock and specialty crop industries in urging the House and Senate to enact legislation before the end of the year to provide permanent and meaningful estate tax relief....More
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is hosting a series of listening sessions across the state in April and May for farmers, forest landowners and agribusinesses....More
Proposed U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rules governing child labor on farms continue to stoke a firestorm of criticism. Backlash has come from rural communities, agriculture advocacy groups, state and federal lawmakers....More
Field to Market, or The Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, is a coalition of “very diverse” organizations aimed at finding ways to feed a growing population with a growing appetite. The coalition realizes this has to be done without depleting the world’s resources....More
Max Runge often wishes that planting decisions were made on the basis of crop rotation considerations and not just on commodity prices — but then again, as experience teaches, wishing doesn’t make it so....More
The latest political counter-blow in the long-standing battle to clean up the Chesapeake Bay came in March when Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlatte introduced H.R. 4153, the Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Improvement Act....More
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, leaders of the U.S. Agriculture Crop Insurers Association and the directors of all U.S. grain associations agree that the single most critical part of the upcoming farm bill has to be crop insurance....More
USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Bruce Nelson has announced that the sign-up deadline for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) has been extended to April 13, 2012....More
With commodity markets now focused on the 2012 production year, most farms have put together the final adjustments to their 2012 crop budgets and crop rotation plans....More
Some economists are projecting 2012 soybeans will sell for more than $13 a bushel, placing beans among the elite crops, in terms of net value per acre, for growers in the Southeast to plant in 2012....More
