By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University
Wheat producers in the Amarillo area can get an update on everything from diseases to insects and markets to variety-trial results at the upcoming Wheat Producers’ Conference on Aug. 10....
By Kim Anderson, Oklahoma State University
By Sept. 30, about 92 percent of the world’s 2009-2010 marketing year wheat production will have been harvested. ...
Grasshopper populations have continued to increase in central Kansas, particularly, and webworms have shown up in some southeast Kansas soybean fields, according to Kansas State University entomologist Jeff Whitworth. ...
By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University
Combine the traditional Texas AgriLife Extension Service field day with a technical conference and that’s what is attracting more than 150 people to the two-day Great Plains Sorghum Conference and Sorghum Improvement Conference of North America Aug. 11-12 in Amarillo....
“It’s simple. The sale of $22 million worth of U.S. sorghum to Mexico in three months would not have happened without the investments of Council members,” said Chris Corry, U.S. Grains Council senior director of international operations for Rest of the World, in regards to an ongoing effort by the Council to revive a once robust sorghum market in Mexico. ...
The National Corn Growers Association is pleased the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will allow farmers the ability to improve upon the environmental benefits from biotechnology corn. The EPA has announced a reduced refuge requirement for SmartStax, an insect-protection and weed control platform in corn, to 5 percent in the northern Corn Belt and 20 percent in Southern states where cotton is planted. In 1999, the EPA enacted refuge requirements to help prevent corn insect pests, such as the European corn borer, from developing resistance to Bt technology....
The National Sorghum Producers today announced that Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas has secured $1 million dollars in research funding for the Great Plains Sorghum Improvement and Utilization Initiative, a joint sorghum research initiative between Kansas State University, Texas Tech University and Texas A&M University....
By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University
The 11th annual Wheatheart Wheat Conference will update area producers on the carbon credit trading situation and how they might fit into the picture, as well as provide them with the latest information on the crop, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service agents hosting the event....
By Donald Stotts, Oklahoma State University
Searing summertime temperatures have been topping the century mark, and that means cattle producers need to take steps to ensure high concentrations of nitrates have not accumulated in forage sorghums prior to use....
Some parts of Kansas have had recurring problems with gray leaf spot in corn and this year is no exception, according to a Kansas State University scientist....
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