June 4, 2009
Commentary
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Issues
Indirect land use calculations giving ethanol, biodiesel producers heartburn
Jun 4, 2009 12:00 PM, Forrest Laws
Collin Peterson remembers the first ethanol boom in the 1970s. The Arab oil embargo and resulting long lines and high prices at the gas pumps prompted...
Articles
Weather takes toll on wheat, corn yields
Jun 4, 2009 10:30 AM, 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....
Markets trending up following slow start
Jun 10, 2009 10:02 AM, 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....
Baucus introduces new bill aimed at loosening embargo
Jun 4, 2009 12:00 PM, By Forrest Laws Farm Press Editorial Staff flaws@farmpress.com
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and 15 other senators are trying once again to break the stranglehold of Florida politics on agricultural trade with Cuba by...
Crop rotation improves success with no-till crop production
Jun 11, 2009 12:58 PM, By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Crop rotation and cover crops enhance the effectiveness of no-till cropping systems by reducing disease and weed pressure, improving soil moisture holding capacity and increasing soil organic matter content....
Windbreak assays to be conducted throughout Kansas
Jun 11, 2009 12:52 PM
The Dust Bowl may be long gone, but wind continues to erode an average 1.3 tons of topsoil each year from every one of Kansas’ 1.8 million acres of cropland....
2009 P.I.E. Program tours set
Jun 4, 2009 12:00 PM
The National Cotton Council has scheduled dates and locations for the 2009 Producer Information Exchange (P.I.E.) Program. Sponsored by Bayer CropScience...
Wheat seed quality may be suspect for fall planting
Jun 11, 2009 10:18 AM, By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Seed quality for fall wheat planting in the Southwest may be iffy at best, hard to find at the very least and likely more expensive than usual....
Trained sheep offer vineyard benefits
Jun 11, 2009 12:55 PM
A bucolic scene that hearkens back to antiquity is being played out at the University of California Hopland Research and Extension Center, south of Ukiah. ...
Cotton production must increase to meet demand
Jun 10, 2009 9:57 AM, By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
By the year 2050, the world population will have increased by some 3 billion souls, up to 9 billion people inhabiting this planet. ...
Cotton Forum slated for July
Jun 25, 2009 12:07 PM
The Cotton Forum could provide cotton producers with both a timely getaway from mid-season bugs and heat this season and get them up to speed on the latest cotton fundamentals and marketing opportunities....
Farm Press launches new tree nut e-newsletter
Jun 15, 2009 10:41 AM
Tree Nut Farm Press is a new e-newsletter from Western Farm Press and Southwest Farm Press that is being digitally broadcast to producers, pest control advisers (PCAs), marketers and others involved in the Western tree nut industry....
New food safety Web site
May 27, 2009 9:58 AM
The newly-created White House Food Safety Working Group has launched a website to provide information about the group’s activities and progress. ...
Major biofuel initiative pushed by Obama administration
Jun 4, 2009 12:00 PM, By David Bennett Farm Press Editorial Staff dbennett@farmpress.com
The Obama administration has announced a major, concerted push by the USDA, Department of Energy and EPA to support the development and expansion of domestic...
Biofuels initiative quickly draws questions from industry groups
Jun 4, 2009 12:00 PM, By David Bennett Farm Press Editorial Staff dbennett@farmpress.com
There has been plenty of commodity group support for President Obama's recent directive to the USDA, the EPA and the Department of Energy to pick up the...
Fund buying could be responsible for $1 higher prices
Jun 8, 2009 10:05 AM, 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. ...
Weather more suited for catfish than cotton
Jun 4, 2009 12:00 PM, By Elton Robinson Farm Press Editorial Staff erobinson@farmpress.com
In the Mid-South, spring weather has been more suited for catfish than cotton, with heavy and frequent rains thwarting every effort to shift planting...
Texas farmers will plant fewer peanut acres in 2009
Jun 4, 2009 1:55 PM
Texas’ 2009 peanut acreage will be down nearly 38 percent from last year’s plantings, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service....
Could twin-row cotton simplify equipment needs?
Jun 4, 2009 12:00 PM, By Elton Robinson Farm Press Editorial Staff erobinson@farmpress.com
A study by the University of Arkansas indicates that shifting from 38-inch rows to twin-row, 15-inch; or twin-row, 7.5-inch configurations in cotton won't...
Biggest move of the year a bear market for beans?
Jun 4, 2009 12:00 PM, By Elton Robinson Farm Press Editorial Staff erobinson@farmpress.com
The biggest move of the year could be a bear market in new crop soybeans, according to market analyst Richard Brock, Brock and Associates, speaking at...
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