Producers who anticipate the possibility of planting grain sorghum or other crops behind failed first crops this season should be aware of new rules pertaining to crop insurance under the 2008 farm bill....
By Rod Santa Ana
Texas A&M University
A drought strategy seminar has been scheduled to help Coastal Bend growers address their planting options, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said USDA will begin making $145 million in direct operating loans to farmers as one of the first steps in distributing the $28 billion earmarked for the Department in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009....
By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University
Subsurface drip irrigation was able to produce up to four bales of cotton per acre with less water than conventional irrigation methods at the Texas AgriLife Research station near Chillicothe....
“Extremely disappointing.” That is how Trey Lam, President of the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts described the ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court that voided the $25 million bond issue passed last legislative session to repair damage to conservation infrastructure throughout the state of Oklahoma, including several severely damaged flood control structures....
When corn prices spiked last year, big food manufacturers and oil companies claimed there wasn’t enough corn to feed everyone and make ethanol. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Obama administration appears to be having second thoughts about its proposal to phase out direct payments to agribusinesses with sales of more than $500,000 and replace them with “green” payments....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is trying to sell commodity groups on the idea of replacing traditional farm programs with so-called green payments or carbon credits. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Feral hogs are running, well, hog wild in Texas. ...
The Renewable Fuels Association joined with Growth Energy, the American Coalition for Ethanol, the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition, and other groups in filing an official waiver request with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asking it to approve for general use gasoline blended with up to 15 percent ethanol (E15)....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Keep it clean. That’s the first piece of advice David Eyster, Custer County, Okla., farmer, gave to participants at the recent No-till Oklahoma Conference in Oklahoma City....
Farmers are expected to plant fewer acres not only in the United States but in the rest of the cotton-producing world in 2009-10, economists with the International Cotton Advisory Committee said....
Cattle raisers attending the annual Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Convention in Fort Worth will hear new ways to control fire ants that threaten young calves and wildlife. ...
Finding your way is much easier with a road map, and soybean researchers now have a map to find their way around the soybean genome....
By Roy Smith
The first impression I get looking at this year’s crop insurance decision is that not much has changed. ...
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