By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A national sorghum checkoff program could provide states much needed money for production research and market development and encourage private investment in the crop....
By Steve Byrns
Texas A&M University
A revised draft of the proposed Pecos River Watershed Protection Plan should be ready for a third round of public review and comment by the end of the month. ...
Twenty-four members and 11 alternate members have been appointed to the Advisory Committee on Universal Cotton Standards by Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer. The committee was re-established by a charter issued in 2007....
In comments filed with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Texas Farm Bureau said the Draft Environmental Impact Study (DEIS) for the proposed I-69 corridor “would not withstand judicial scrutiny.”...
By Kim Anderson
Oklahoma State University
Producers around the world reacted to higher wheat prices by planting more wheat. United States winter wheat seedings are estimated to be 4 percent higher than for the 2007-2008 marketing year (this year) and spring wheat planted acres are also projected to be at least 4 percent higher. Estimates of U.S. total wheat planted acres are about 63 million....
Ranchers in 15 Great Plains and Western states who want to earn extra money related to the first pool of carbon credits from American rangeland have until Friday, April 4, to get their signed contracts in the mail....
The escalating price of nitrogen fertilizer doesn't just have farmers worried; scientists with Texas AgriLife Research and Texas AgriLife Extension Service are also deeply concerned. ...
The Texas Department of Agriculture reports the Lone Star State’s olive industry is poised for unprecedented growth in 2008, thanks to advances in olive tree production and an increased demand for olive oil. The industry was first established in 1994 with roughly 20,000 trees on four orchards. Today, the number of olive trees has grown to 97,000 with plans for another 25,000 plantings this fall....
By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University
Harvesting, irrigation and pest management methods will be discussed at two free Best Management Practices training seminars being offered by Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the National Cotton Council. ...
A six-year research project is underway in Woodson County, Kansas where Kansas State University scientists are working to determine how viable patch-burn grazing is for raising livestock....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Just when it seemed the 2008 farm bill couldn’t get any more complicated, word spread that House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., had been hospitalized in New York with the flu....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As most of the Cotton Belt prepares to cut cotton acreage this year, growers in the High Plains could add as much as a 500,000 acres to 2007 plantings....
Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples announced The Texas Department of Agriculture is currently accepting applications for Phase 2 of the 2007 Catfish Feed Grant Program. Producers who suffered catfish feed losses due to natural disasters between Jan. 1, 2007 and Dec. 30, 2007 are eligible to apply for the program....
The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance (SCFBA), a national coalition of more than 120 specialty crop organizations representing 350 specialty crops, calls the latest extension of the Farm Bill a "missed opportunity" to enact federal farm policy that improves nutrition for all Americans while injecting more competition into the marketplace. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
West Texas peanut farmer Andy Timmons said he’ll keep his options open as long as possible as he decides on peanut and cotton acreage for 2008....
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