Preparations are well under way for the first San Antonio International Farm & Ranch show to take place Oct. 8-10 at Freeman Coliseum and its surrounding grounds, 3201 E. Houston St., San Antonio....
By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University
Two conferences designed to explore the opportunities and alternatives available to landowners with expiring Conservation Reserve Program contracts have been scheduled in Amarillo and Lubbock....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Corn growers want to see a mechanism in which they can sell carbon credits on a regulated market to help offset rising production costs from newly introduced climate change legislation, the president of the National Corn Growers Association says....
Conditions varied widely across Texas, with crops off to a good start in some areas thanks to rains. ...
By Roger Haldenby
Editor, PCG Email Services
Texas AgriLife Extension and Texas Department of Agriculture will be conducting a "Scout School" May 29, 2009 in the Lubbock Research and Extension Center Auditorium....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s food manufacturers are not in danger of running out of sugar despite their claims to the contrary, the American Sugar Alliance said in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday (May 18)....
USDA has announced a proposed rule for applying the dairy promotion checkoff to imported dairy products, a development many years in the making that has drawn the praise of the National Milk Producers Federation....
The USDA recently announced the passage of a referendum to continue the National Peanut Board, a farmer funded advertising, promotion and research board that works to increase demand for USA-grown peanuts....
By Ron Smith
Southwest Farm Press
Fertilizer for peanuts is a little better bargain this year than a year ago, but paying attention to soil test recommendations and application techniques still makes sound economic sense....
Texas’ 2009 peanut acreage will be down nearly 38 percent from last year’s plantings, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service. ...
By Sharon Dowdy
University of Georgia
Soybeans are the typical replacement for ground meat in patties. But patties made with black-eyed peas and peanuts could be just as good, say University of Georgia food scientists....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. economy stands to lose $5 billion to $9 billion in sales to its foreign competitors over the next two years if Congress does not take steps to help solve the nation’s ongoing agricultural labor shortage....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s oldest state Extension Service is drastically scaling back the number of county agents who are on the front lines of providing agricultural information to producers....
By Roger Haldenby
Editor, Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
America's farmers are extending an olive branch to the same urban media that have often been critical of agriculture, and some powerful U.S. lawmakers asked the nation's reporters in a letter today to give them a chance....
The process used to create nonwoven toxic chemical decontamination wipes, such as Texas Tech University’s Fibertect™, recently received a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office....
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