A specially designed field chamber has proved to be a good tool when used together with a computer model to evaluate how effectively riparian buffers filter out pollutants before they can reach streams or other bodies of water. ...
By David Bennett
Standing in for Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, Deputy Secretary Chuck Connor didn’t take the rhetorical beating his boss did in a Little Rock farmer meeting in June. ...
By Elton Robinson
The U.S. cotton, corn and soybean crops are getting bigger each month, a testament to good growers and good genetics. If production forecasts are realized, each crop is on course to be the second largest crop on record....
Farmers, extension agents, agribusiness representatives, crop consultants and others involved in crop production, should be making their plans to attend the 2005 Texas Plant Protection Conference sponsored by the nonprofit association Texas Plant Protection Association. ...
By David Bennett
Although too late in the season to do much harm, Asian soybean rust has found its way to a Dayton-area kudzu patch in southeast Texas’ Liberty County. ...
By Harry Cline
Calcot, the Bakersfield, Calif., cotton marketing cooperative and second largest U.S. cotton exporter, is taking its expertise for world marketing of high quality cotton to Texas. ...
Increasing beef demand by producing the highest quality, grain-fed beef more efficiently than anyone in the world will be the key to continued success of the U.S. beef industry, said Jim McAdams, President National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) at a gathering of more than 500 Texas cattle feeders. ...
By Paul Hollis
There’s a reasonable expectation that December cotton futures likely will stay in the 50-cent range unless the supply/demand balances change due to unexpected developments, says John R.C. Robinson, Texas A&M Extension economist. ...
By Harry Cline
The U.S. cotton industry’s Step 2 market competitiveness program has become to the USDA and the Bush Administration like the mongrel dog the family cannot bear to take to the dog pound. ...
By Caroline Booth Lara
As gasoline and diesel prices continue to hover at near-record levels, and the United States’ dependence on petroleum imports increases, the public is renewing interest in fossil fuel alternatives. ...
By Ron Smith
A growing number of Central and West Texas farmers are increasing management intensity, in both dryland and, especially, in irrigated fields to enhance yield potential and to produce the highest quality fiber possible. ...
By Forrest Laws
I remember farmers, mostly from Iowa and Illinois, railing against target prices and deficiency payments for soybeans like those for cotton, rice, wheat and feed grains because the Midwesterners “didn’t want the government involved in agriculture any more than it was.” ...
By Daryll Ray
Because of low market prices for the eight major U.S. crops, spending on the farm program zoomed to over $20 billion a year and recently has settled back into the mid-teens. ...
By Ron Smith
Giving in to the impulse to take preemptive steps now to hedge against even higher energy prices before next planting season could be a mistake. ...
By Paul Hollis
Even if corn and soybean prices drop below the loan rate this fall, it’s difficult to envision an increase in planted wheat acres for the 2006 crop, says Delton Gerloff, University of Tennessee agricultural economist. ...
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This course covers a wide range of options to effectively control weeds in cotton and reduce the risk of weed resistance management. It is accredited for hours/units for licensed/accredited applicators in 7 U.S. Cotton Belt states (Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina an d Tennessee. CCA credit is pending).
(New Course)Integration of a new mode of action compound like Coragen into IPM and IRM programs to control Lepidoptera in leafy greens, fruiting vegetables, peppers and brassica or cole crops is always welcome. This online CE accredited course details how best to use this new mode of action insecticide in intensive vegetable production. It is accredited by the Certified Crop Adviser (CCA) program and by state agencies for licensed applicators in Texas, Georgia, Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Keeping crop protection chemicals on the crop for which they are intended has been a cornerstone of farming not only to protect neighboring crops, but to not waste money allowing products to drift off the intended target. This accredited online continuing education course covers the critical elements of spray drift management.
