Producing enough food to feed 9 billion people by 2050 will be a monumental undertaking, the biggest challenge facing the world’s leaders in the 21st Century....More
It’s estimated that 850 million people in the world suffer from chronic hunger. 650 million of those are farmers who can’t grow enough food to feed their families....More
The Chinese government's decision to support domestic cotton prices at 40 cents more than the Cotton Outlook A Index is impacting world markets and U.S. producers....More
The annual No-Till Oklahoma conference, held in mid-February in Norman, Okla., featured a wide range of topics and speakers discussing the beneifts of conservatin tillage, cover crops and rotation.
China has been a puzzle for most of the cotton-producing and consuming sectors since the time President Nixon opened the country to the rest of the world in the early 1970s....More
The Vietnam War marked a turning point in the lives of many Americans. One of those was Kenneth Quinn, who entered the war as a young Foreign Service officer and later became president of the World Food Prize....More
Glyphosate has been getting a lot of bad press, primarily due to the problems with glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth. But it’s still one of the most broad-spectrum, efficacious herbicides ever developed. Monsanto’s John Everitt talked about ways to preserve glyphosate or Roundup for future use in this interview at the Weed and Water Summit sponsored by Monsanto in Lubbock, Texas....More
Cotton farmers, particularly those accustomed to spaying a single herbicide on their crops, may need to dust off some of the old equipment and herbicides they or their fathers used in the 1980s and 90s. Texas A&M University’s Wayne Keeling explained why during this presentation at Monsanto’s Weed and Water Summit in Lubbock, Texas....More
When weed scientists first received samples of suspected glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth in 2011, Texas A&M University’s Wayne Keeling hoped they were isolated cases. 2012 proved that not to be the case, Keeling told producers attending Monsanto’s Weed and Water Summit in Lubbock. Keeling listed a series of recommendations for dealing with the issue during his presentation....More
