Major south Texas broadband project receives stimulus funds Texas hopes to receive more consideration of projects in second round of funding ...
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
I was sitting in Barry Evans’ office last week at Evans Grain in Kress, Texas....
By Robert Burns, Texas A&M University
More snow came to parts of Texas, contributing more moisture to already saturated fields, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....
The Mid-South Farm and Gin Show, which opens Friday at the Cook Convention Center in downtown Memphis, continues to be the pre-season place for producers to get the latest information on production and management, see the newest equipment and products, and interact one-on-one with hundreds of experts in dozens of agricultural disciplines....
By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University
A mini-workshop aimed at grain sorghum production in the Rolling Plains has been scheduled for March 9 by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the United Sorghum Checkoff Program....
When you attend the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show this week, you can be part of a hunger relief effort through a contribution to the Mid-South Food Bank....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Lower world cotton production and higher world consumption in 2009-10 has reduced world cotton stocks and contributed to the A-Index exceeding 80 cents in mid-February, according to a world and U.S. cotton outlook presented at USDA’s Agricultural Outlook Forum 2010 in Arlington, Va....
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to review a ruling by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals that may require farmers to obtain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits when applying pesticides to or near water sources....
Drayton Mayers, CEO of the Cotton Board, has tendered his resignation to me in a letter to Larkin Martin, chairman of the Cotton Board....
A special seminar on weed resistance and a discussion of legislative and agricultural issues by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln are highlights of this year’s Mid-South Farm and Gin Show, which starts Friday at Memphis....
BASF says it plans to introduce 28 new crop protection products in the next four years, a feat that would double the number of new entries the company has brought to the U.S. market in the last decade....
The 58th Mid-South Farm and Gin show, boasting more than 400 exhibits of the latest in equipment, technology, and services will be held Friday and Saturday at the downtown Memphis Cook Convention Center....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Following nearly a decade of litigation, a $1.25 billion agreement has been struck between the USDA and a class consisting of black farmers. Congress is now being asked to provide the needed funds and several prominent farm-state politicians seem keen to do so....
Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. corn, soybean and wheat farmers are benefitting from record demand at home and abroad, demand which is preventing record crop production from pushing commodity prices much below current levels, the USDA’s chief economist says....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The dynamics of cotton pests continues to change from a weevil/worm management system to the bug complexes, according to a report by Mississippi State University Extension entomologist Mike Williams....
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