By Robert Burns, Texas A&M University
Most of Texas received a little to a lot of rain the first week of August. ...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Aimed at enhancing U.S. food safety after a series of high-profile product warnings and recalls, on July 30, the House passed the Food Safety Enhancement Act (HR 2749) by a vote of 283 to 142....
By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University
Wheat producers in the Amarillo area can get an update on everything from diseases to insects and markets to variety-trial results at the upcoming Wheat Producers’ Conference on Aug. 10....
By Steve Byrns, Texas A&M University
Alfalfa producers can update their production expertise at an upcoming Texas AgriLife Extension Service workshop and field tour scheduled from 8:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Aug. 14 near Lubbock....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Texas cotton from the Northern Blacklands to the High Plains has potential to make a decent crop, depending on weather from now through fall, but prospects further south are less promising, says Texas AgriLife Extension cotton specialist Gaylon Morgan in College Station....
Grasshopper populations have continued to increase in central Kansas, particularly, and webworms have shown up in some southeast Kansas soybean fields, according to Kansas State University entomologist Jeff Whitworth. ...
By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University
Combine the traditional Texas AgriLife Extension Service field day with a technical conference and that’s what is attracting more than 150 people to the two-day Great Plains Sorghum Conference and Sorghum Improvement Conference of North America Aug. 11-12 in Amarillo....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Drought in South Texas considered exceptional, the worst category possible to rate drought conditions, covers enough land mass to include the entire states of Vermont, Massachusetts, new Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island and Hawaii....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
I must admit to being a bit surprised when I came across an article on the Internet recently with the headline: “Organic food is no healthier, study finds.”...
By Vic Schoonover, NTOK Cotton
As cotton matures and changes, so do the pests challenging its productivity. J. Terry Pitts, Oklahoma State University Extension specialist, entomology, integrated pest management, offers an update on the 2009 cotton growing season:...
USDA Farm Service Agency Administrator Jonathan Coppess has announced that biomass conversion facilities can begin signing up to participate in the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, which will help increase production of renewable energy. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
With cotton futures prices in the deferred months inching closer to 70 cents, and with grain markets substantially off their highs, it’s possible that cotton in the United States could start to win acreage back in 2010, according to Joe Nicosia, chief executive officer of Allenberg Cotton Co....
Retail food prices at the supermarket decreased slightly for the third consecutive quarter, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey....
Summertime activities keep livestock producers more than busy, but it might be worthwhile for a producer to think about feed needs for the upcoming winter, a Kansas State University animal scientist said. ...
“It’s simple. The sale of $22 million worth of U.S. sorghum to Mexico in three months would not have happened without the investments of Council members,” said Chris Corry, U.S. Grains Council senior director of international operations for Rest of the World, in regards to an ongoing effort by the Council to revive a once robust sorghum market in Mexico. ...
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