Evolutionary process: Staff changes at Farm Press 

Apr 8, 2008,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

With your indulgence, I’ll use my space this time to note a couple of Farm Press staff changes and to do a bit of horn-tooting....

U.S. peanut industry may need more acres in 2008 

Apr 7, 2008,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

U.S. peanut farmers need to increase acreage by as much as 20 percent in 2008 to meet demand and shellers have offered contract prices as high as $500 a ton to compete with corn, cotton, wheat and milo for available land....

FAO expects rice production to rise by 1.8 percent in 2008 

Apr 7, 2008

World rice production is expected to increase in 2008 by 12 million metric tons or 1.8 percent, assuming normal weather conditions, FAO said today. Production increases would ease the current very tight supply situation in key rice producing countries, according to the first FAO forecast for this year. International rice trade is expected to decrease, mainly due to restrictions in main exporting countries. ...

Kansans can plant trees to right inherited imbalance in nature 

Apr 7, 2008

Prior to the 1800s´ flood of immigrants – which included two dozen-plus displaced Indian tribes and then waves of European settlers - the corridors along Kansas´s creeks and rivers had a diversity of trees and shrubs....

Bush Administration proposes axing Lubbock gin lab — again 

Apr 4, 2008,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

West Texas now produces some of the highest quality cotton in the United States, a significant turnaround from just a few years ago when High Plains farmers suffered a reputation for producing low-grade lint....

2008 PIE Program Tours Set 

Apr 4, 2008

Mid-South cotton producers participating in this year’s Cotton Foundation Producer Information Exchange will tour operations in Arizona and California June 22-27. The National Cotton Council recently announced all dates and locations for the 2008 program....

AgriLife Researcher looking at wildfire impact on South Texas wildlife 

Apr 4, 2008,

By Paul Schattenberg
Texas A&M University

Dr. Jim Gallagher, Texas AgriLife Extension Service wildlife specialist, has seen the effects of many fires in his career. ...

Technology replaces labor, other costs on SW farms 

Apr 3, 2008,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Good help is hard to find. Fortunately, technology innovations have replaced man-hours on many Southwest farms, and are reducing other expenses in the process....

Texas crop, weather 

Apr 3, 2008,

By Paul Schattenberg
Texas A&M University

The recent rains have provided much-needed moisture and improved planting conditions throughout most of the state. ...

USDA-NRCS supports the Third Annual Sustainable Land Management Workshop at Samuell Farm  

Apr 3, 2008

Landowners will receive a valuable conservation education at the Third Annual Sustainable Land Management Workshop, which will be held at the historic 340-acre Samuell Farm located in Mesquite, Texas, on Saturday, April 26, 2008....

Rotation, timely fungicide treatments key for West Texas peanut disease control 

Apr 2, 2008,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

They might not be as prevalent or require quite as many in-season treatments, but all the foliar diseases that afflict peanuts in the Southeast threaten West Texas production....

Retail food prices rise in first quarter of 2008 

Apr 2, 2008

Retail food prices at the supermarket increased in the first quarter of 2008, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. The informal survey shows the total cost of 16 basic grocery items in the first quarter was $45.03, up about 8 percent or $3.42 from the fourth quarter of 2007....

Grassley hoping plan breaks farm bill impasse 

Apr 2, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

As all sides continue to jostle over a new farm bill, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is an enthusiastic member of the scrum....

U.S. rice continues to monitor China, the 800-pound gorilla 

Apr 1, 2008,

By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff

While the debate over agricultural biotechnology still rages in many parts of the world, China is moving forward at a rapid pace in developing genetically modified rice, according to a Stanford University professor who is an expert on the agriculture of the world’s most populous nation....

USA Rice, coalition groups oppose administration’s food aid proposals  

Apr 1, 2008

A coalition of 34 organizations, including USA Rice Federation, urged congressional farm bill leaders to reject the Bush administration’s farm bill food aid proposals because they “would ultimately drive down the amount of food aid provided by the United States even further and threaten to weaken longstanding public support for food aid.” ...

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