By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University
With more than 3 million acres of wheat in north Texas, 50 percent or more of which is grazed by 1 to 2 million head of cattle, it is important to look at tillage practices and their effect on forage production, said a Texas AgriLife Research expert....
By Kim Anderson
Oklahoma State University
A 60-cent daily trading price range creates a potential $24 difference in profit per acre depending on what time during the day the wheat is sold. ...
The European market offers “tremendous” long term export opportunities for U.S. sorghum producers, according to participants of the U.S. Grains Council’s 2008 Sorghum Mission to Europe. ...
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
Southeast Texas producers are not the only ones bailing storm water after Hurricane Ike....
Blends of two to three wheat varieties have become increasingly popular over the past 10 years in Kansas, according to recent wheat variety acreage reports from Kansas Agricultural Statistics....
Honeydew could begin dripping from grain sorghum and forage sorghum heads in Kansas this year, according to a Kansas State University scientist. ...
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
As Southeast Texas and the Gulf Coast deal with cattle orphaned by Hurricane Ike, most of the rest of the state received cooler temperatures and rain – lots of rain....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Southwest wheat farmers should take herbicide resistance seriously. ...
The U.S. Grains Council, the leading organization for export market development for barley, corn and sorghum, was reassured by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates that U.S. trading partners can continue to rely on U.S. farmers for feed ingredients. ...
USA Rice Federation and U.S. Wheat Associates in a letter to U.S. Secretary Condoleezza Rice yesterday asked that the United States “put aside political concern and ease trade and travel restriction that are denying the Cuban people the relief and assistance so critically needed” in the devastating wake of Hurricane Ike. ...
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