Soybean checkoff funding helps map the soybean genome 

Mar 9, 2009

Finding your way is much easier with a road map, and soybean researchers now have a map to find their way around the soybean genome....

2009 wheat situation may not be a pretty picture 

Mar 5, 2009,

By Kim Anderson
Oklahoma State University

At this writing, Oklahoma and Texas wheat producers may forward contract wheat for harvest delivery at about $5.30. ...

Many parts of state tinderbox dry 

Mar 5, 2009,

By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University

As the Texas drought diminished soil moisture and dried out pastures and rangeland, wildfires reports have heated up, according to the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas Forest Service. ...

Spring wheat possible hay crop 

Mar 5, 2009

A lack of moisture during this winter season has certainly hurt the wheat crop here in the Coastal Bend as well as most of Texas. ...

Sorghum growers putting checkoff to work 

Mar 3, 2009,

By Larry Stalcup
Contributing Writer

Using their new value-based checkoff assessment, sorghum growers across the country are taking steps that can help them see extensive research and promotion that hopefully will rival that for corn, soybeans and wheat....

Non-toxic fungus may hold key to aflatoxin contamination 

Mar 2, 2009,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Drought can deliver a double whammy to dryland corn farmers in parts of Texas....

USCP welcomes Executive Director  

Feb 27, 2009

The United Sorghum Checkoff Program is pleased to welcome Virgil Smail of Manhattan, Kansas as the new USCP Executive Director....

What's another word for dry? 

Feb 26, 2009,

By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University

There's only so many ways you can describe "dry and drier," said Texas AgriLife Extension Service agents throughout the state. ...

Bob Fuchs carries on tradition and remains excited about farming 

Feb 25, 2009,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Despite declining commodity prices, no appreciable rain since September and fertilizer prices too high to justify more than maintenance levels, Bob Fuchs remains excited about farming....

Now is the time for wheat management 

Feb 25, 2009,

By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University

This is the time for wheat producers to be in the field fertilizing and controlling winter annual weeds, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialist....

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