By Daryll E. Ray, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
It would not be a stretch to assert that Chinese imports have driven the recent growth in soybean production and exports by the US, Brazil, and Argentina. ...
The United Sorghum Checkoff Program (USCP) has launched an online collection of research articles in conjunction with Texas Tech University, through the Great Plains Sorghum Initiative....
The Texas Soybean Association will hold its 43rd Annual Business session at the Matagorda County Fair Grounds Multipurpose Building, (4511 FM 2668, Bay City, TX) on Thursday, February 4, 2010 in conjunction with the 2010 Soybean Production Conference sponsored by Texas AgriLife Extension. ...
By Kim Anderson, Oklahoma State University
World wheat production for the 2009/2010 wheat marketing year (June through May) is in storage. There may be minor changes in estimated supply, but for all practical purposes, the 2009/2010 marketing-year world wheat supply is known....
The Texas High Plains Grain Elevator Workshop will be held Feb. 4 at the Ashmore Inn and Suites, 2301 Interstate 40 East, Exit 72-A, in Amarillo, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialist....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Weed control is the No. 1 challenge for U.S. grain sorghum producers who do not have the luxury of genetically modified hybrids that allow non-selective, post-emergence, over-the-top herbicide use to control numerous weeds that compete with the crop and reduce grain quality....
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) was presented Monday with the Wheat Leader of the Year Award, the wheat industry's highest public service award....
Prompt action by the USA Rice Federation following the massive earthquake in Haiti last week facilitated U.S. government procurement of rice for emergency food aid to the Caribbean nation. ...
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Storing grain in polyethylene bags offers a viable option to on-farm storage or holding grain in commercial elevators and is particularly useful during bumper crop years when traditional storage is limited and harvest delays are likely....
By Robert Burns, Texas A&M University
The recent cold weather could yield the best chance in a decade to eradicate the boll weevil in South Texas according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service expert....
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