Nov 17, 2009 11:37 AM, By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
2008 was a heady year for Pat Westhoff and other analysts at the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute....
Nov 13, 2009 11:23 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton futures broke out of a month-long trading range and surged to the highest level in over a year on November 11 on spec trading. ...
Oct 15, 2009 10:51 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Extremes of weather throughout the growing and harvest seasons have prompted USDA to lower projections for the 2009 U.S. cotton crop. ...
Oct 5, 2009 10:32 AM, By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
You have a $2-million loan at a local bank. You and your lender are on good terms, or as good as that type of relationship normally allows....
Sep 17, 2009 11:10 AM, By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University
Greater price volatility in agricultural markets is demanding producers develop better marketing skills to improve their bottom line, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service economist....
Sep 2, 2009 10:29 AM, By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Following a lengthy dispute, the WTO Arbitration Panel has issued a ruling in favor of Brazilian claims that U.S. government payments to cotton farmers have been excessive. ...
Aug 17, 2009 9:58 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Uncertainty over the size of the cotton crop in drought-stressed Texas, where over half of the U.S. crop is planted this season, will likely continue well into October, and perhaps November, according to experts speaking at the Ag Market Network August teleconference....
News from the Farm BillACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmersJul 11, 2008 10:01 AM, By Forrest Laws The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ... Farm bill: Several provisions delayed until 2009Jul 8, 2008 9:38 AM The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue.... USDA issues advance direct paymentsJul 8, 2008 9:21 AM America's farmers will receive up to $1.15 billion in 2008 advance direct payments that began July 7.... Food, Conservation and Energy Act for Oklahoma farmersJul 3, 2008 8:22 AM, By Ron Smith Elk City, Okla. farmer Danny Davis doesn’t expect the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program included in the recently passed Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 to fit his operation.... |
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