Texas Farm Bureau: “TxDOT’s Draft Environmental Impact Study will not withstand judicial scrutiny” 

Mar 19, 2008

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.”...

Higher wheat stocks lower prices 

Mar 18, 2008,

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....

Enrollment deadline nears for First Rangeland Carbon Credits Pool  

Mar 18, 2008

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....

'Surviving High Fertilizer and Fuel Costs' Conference set April 18 at Overton 

Mar 18, 2008

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. ...

Texas olive industry branches out to meet growing demand 

Mar 18, 2008

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....

Cotton Best Management Practice Workshops scheduled for Dumas, Lubbock 

Mar 17, 2008,

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. ...

Patch burning: A new concept in rangeland management 

Mar 17, 2008

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....

Harkin: Farm bill complicated by Rangel illness 

Mar 14, 2008,

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....

Texas High Plains cotton growers could add 500,000 acres 

Mar 14, 2008,

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....

Texas Department Of Agriculture offering grant money to catfish farmers recovering from declared disasters 

Mar 14, 2008

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....

Specialty crop industry calls farm bill extension missed opportunity for agriculture 

Mar 14, 2008

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. ...

Attention to peanut nutrition needs critical with higher fertilizer prices 

Mar 13, 2008,

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....

Conservation efforts harvest a bounty of success in Texas 

Mar 13, 2008

Texans today can thank farmers, ranchers, land managers and others across the state during National Ag Week March 16-22 for their conservation efforts in protecting and improving soil, water and air quality, and wildlife habitats. ...

Texas crop, weather 

Mar 13, 2008,

By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University

Most counties in the eastern half of the state received from a half-inch to slightly more than 1 inch of precipitation during the last week, according the National Weather Service. ...

Senate votes to extend farm bill until April 18 

Mar 12, 2008

The Senate passed an extension of the 2002 farm bill to give its and House Agriculture Committee leaders more time to try to reach an agreement with the White House on a new farm bill....

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