By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Planting delays in the Delta and eastern Corn Belt are expected to reduce yields for rice and corn, respectively, according to USDA’s June 10 Crop Production Report....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Market opportunities for the 2009 corn crop and the 2009-2010 wheat harvest depend on factors as close to home as how much it rains in Iowa, as far off as how long it stays dry in Australia and as varied as how high or how low crude oil futures will move....
By Kim Anderson
Oklahoma State University
My last Southwest Farm Press stated the wheat market had $1.25 upside potential compared to a $0.50 downside risk. ...
By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University
A Texas AgriLife Research-bred wheat, TAM 111, tops the list of varieties selected for planting in Texas, according to a recent survey....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Butch Aycock has been farming on his own since 1970 and has seen more than his share of crop disasters in that time, including drought, freezes and hail storms....
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that J. Dudley Butler, an attorney and cattleman from Mississippi, will serve as administrator of USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton farmers have put their pencils to it, but after the numbers are crunched, the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) payment option, included in the 2008 farm bill, doesn’t make economic sense....
By Steve Watson
Kansas State University
The Kansas wheat crop will soon be in the heading stage, which is when wheat becomes most susceptible to Fusarium head blight (FHB), or head scab, said Erick De Wolf, Kansas State University plant pathologist. ...
By Kim Anderson
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma and Texas’ wheat production losses may remove the “cushion” from the 140 million bushel increase in hard red winter wheat stocks....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Earnest Dreith admits to being a little old fashioned. He’s entitled. ...
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