Hurricane Hannah brought copious amounts of rainfall to most of the upper Southeast last week, with most areas being spared crop damage....
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. ...
The Economic Research Service, USDA, reports that receipts from Florida agricultural products in 2007 amounted to $7.7 billion....
DuPont has received registration approvals from the state of Florida for Coragen and Altacor insect control products. ...
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Georgia tomato producers lost an estimated $13.9 million in total production value this year due to an alert issued by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration this past June warning that some types of tomatoes might be linked Salmonella outbreak....
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 Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Amanda Sizemore grew up on a dairy farm in Fletcher, N.C. After graduating with a degree in horticulture from Clemson University, she set out on a career of helping farmers, first with the USDA, then the North Carolina State University Cooperative Extension System....
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....
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....
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