The United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released a corrected U.S. Crop Production report Oct. 28....
Normally a hard freeze in late October or early November in Kansas comes too late to hurt row crop yields. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A million acres too much here and there added up to an embarrassing moment for USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service in late October....
Every producer hopes for a good, uniform stand of wheat by the end of October, but not everything goes perfectly every year....
By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University
The availability and use of wet distiller’s grains in beef finishing diets continues to increase as the ethanol industry expands, and some Texas AgriLife Research scientists are trying to determine if that will affect consumers’ meat purchases....
By Kim Anderson
Oklahoma State University
I just looked at the markets and the Kansas City Board of Trade December wheat contract price was down 35 cents at $6.69....
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
Rain fell in many parts of Texas, improving winter wheat but setting back the cotton harvest, reported Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Technology is helping Hockley County, Texas, farmer Steve Newsom make more bales of cotton on fewer acres of land....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Southwest grain sorghum producers making a late crop should be on the lookout for ergot, a disease organism that attacks unfertilized ovaries and creates honeydew that may cause harvest and storage problems....
Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer has appointed a Board of Directors for the national Sorghum Promotion, Research and Information Program, or national sorghum checkoff....
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