By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
Texas AgriLife Extension Service agents from across the state report that whether there was rain or no rain, the high price of nitrogen fertilizer and diesel fuel are a dark cloud on the horizon for many producers. ...
With the wet spring in parts of the state, there are still some wheat fields that haven't been topdressed with nitrogen. Some of those fields are starting to turn yellow and appear to be nitrogen deficient, said Dave Mengel, K-State Research and Extension soil fertility specialist....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The new farm bill’s conference committee met twice Wednesday afternoon and nearly completed a new forestry title. The farm bill is slowly taking shape, but slowly won’t get the job done in time to beat Friday’s deadline. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Not long after the farm bill conference committee was gaveled back in session on Tuesday morning, several key legislators, with the encouragement of their colleagues, headed to a negotiating session of their own. With a Friday deadline looming, Charlie Rangel, House Ways and Means chairman, and Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee chairman, are attempting to untangle a knot of funding issues outside the main conference. As of Wednesday morning, there’d been no word of their success....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
John Perryman will resist the temptation to push yields this year, in spite of some of the best cotton and grain prices he’s ever seen....
The Federal Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has launched a $17 million initiative for technical and policy assistance to help farmers increase food production in poor countries affected by high food prices....
A hard freeze in parts of Kansas in the early morning hours of April 14 may have damaged the most advanced tillers in earlier planted wheat in south central and southeast Kansas, but hopefully the damage will not be as severe or as widespread as the freeze damage in April of 2007, said Jim Shroyer, K-State Research and Extension agronomy state leader....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Only the primary authors of a new, approximately $280 billion farm bill still say the legislation will be in place by an April 18 deadline. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Starting early is the key to effective weed control in peanuts....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA raised estimated old crop cotton production nearly 400,000 bales from last month, pushing last year’s crop to 19.4 million bales. The increase, reported in USDA’s April 9 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, is based on the final Cotton Ginnings report released by the National Agricultural Statistics Service in late March....
The 5th edition of the International Conference on “Advances in Textiles, Nonwoven and Technical Textiles-ATNT 2008” will be organized by Texas Tech University in collaboration with Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore, India from July 14-16, 2008. Several leading international professional bodies such as INDA, TAPPI (Nonwovens Division), IFAI (Safety and Protective Products Division) and Society of Dyers and Colorists (SDC-India) serve as honorary sponsors of this international meet....
Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson has released the list of congressmen appointed to participate in the conference committee that will negotiate the 2008 farm bill....
Based on Commerce Department estimates from August 1, 2007 through March 1, 2008, projected total pounds of cotton consumed during the crop year of 2007-08 2.3 billion pounds of cotton or 4.74 million bales. USDA’s latest estimate of mill use for the 2007-08 crop year is 4.6 million bales....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
According to USDA’s April 7 crop progress report, rice planting is now complete on 11 percent of intended U.S. acres, compared to 21 percent this time last year. Louisiana is 51 percent complete, compared to 47 percent last year, while Texas is 63 percent planted compared to 39 percent last year. ...
By Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate leaders say their version of the 2008 farm bill, which contains $10 billion above the Congressional Budget Office “baseline,” should be the model for the legislation that must be passed by April 18 to keep farm programs from reverting to permanent law....
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