By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
National Cotton Council leaders are praising the U.S. Trade Representative Office’s filing of an appeal against the latest ruling in the WTO case brought by Brazil against the U.S. cotton program....
At the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Outlook Forum, Secretary Ed Schafer announced that U.S. agricultural exports are forecast to reach a record $101 billion for fiscal year 2008, up $10 billion from November's forecast and an unprecedented $19 billion above 2007....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
More than 150 farmers attending a farm day forum sent a message to Washington via Louisiana Congressmen Charles W. Boustany Jr. and Charlie Melancon and Undersecretary of Agriculture Mark Keenum: they need a new farm bill and they need it now....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Despite weather-related setbacks, efforts to eradicate the boll weevil from Texas cotton fields made progress in 2007....
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
As far as rainfall, it was feast or famine, according to reports from Texas AgriLife Extension Service county agents throughout the state....
Kansas State University is hosting Risk-Assessed Marketing of Grains workshops in three locations around the state in late February and early March....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA oversight regulations for GE rice research need changing, according to panelists speaking at the National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants annual meeting in Seattle. But will new rules — which are to be posted on the Federal Register this month — prevent future accidental release of GE lines into the commercial rice supply?...
The Memphis-based National Cotton Ginners Association (NCGA) elected its officers for 2008 at its annual meeting on Feb. 9....
By Blair Fannin
Texas A&M University
A change in Cuba’s leadership won’t have immediate economic effects on Cuban export trade, particularly since U.S. agricultural exports set a new record in 2007 of more than $442 million, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service economist....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee say they don’t buy arguments that more than $6 billion has to be cut from the 2008 farm bill so that it can pass muster with the Bush administration....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
This year, for the first time in many years, several U.S. commodities will be competing for acreage, and that competition will greatly impact peanut production, says Nathan Smith, University of Georgia Extension economist....
By Blair Fannin
Texas A&M University
Agribusiness professionals can learn more about marketing products to Cuba at a conference scheduled for March 6 at the Texas Department of Agriculture in Austin....
Farmers are often on the lookout for a crop that will result in good returns and fit into their crop rotation. Increasingly, Kansas growers are finding that winter canola may be that crop, said Kansas State University agronomist Vic Martin....
By J.D. Bilbro
Contributing Writer
Many of the bales from the 2007 cotton crop, one of the largest in High Plains history, will be processed through Plains Cotton Cooperative Association (PCCA), a farmer–owned, cotton marketing and denim manufacturing cooperative headquartered in Lubbock, Texas....
The Texas Department of Agriculture has been granted approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue a Section 18 specific exemption allowing the use of anthraquinone (Avitec Liquid Seed Treatment) to repel sandhill crane from sweet and field corn seed. ...
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