By Randy Henry
USDA-NRCS, Arlington, Texas
By the end of this year, 208 watershed dams in Texas will have exceeded their evaluated life of 50 years. By 2011, that number will increase to 543. Proper operation and maintenance of those watersheds will be the key to managing risks associated with these aging dams, said speakers at a recent National Watershed Coalition (NWC) Operation and Maintenance Workshop in Decatur, Texas....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry voted unanimously to report a farm bill that includes a new average crop revenue or ACR option for row crop producers and greatly expanded conservation, energy and nutrition programs....
When imported ornamental trees turn renegade, sometimes it takes an imported killer to chew them down to size. ...
EPA is seeking public comment on a draft White Paper that recommends withdrawal of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s guidance to test for the StarLink protein Cry9C in corn grain. ...
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. cotton is like a heralded triple threat baseball player with a threat now missing....
Cotton Board Chairman Nancy Marino has announced that Drayton Campbell Mayers has been named president and chief executive officer of the Memphis-based Cotton Board....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, went to a lot of trouble to find additional funding for conservation programs, such as his own Conservation Stewardship Program, in the 2007 farm bill he was scheduled to present to the Senate Agriculture Committee Oct. 24....
Congressman Leonard Boswell, Chair of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry expressed his concerns to Acting Secretary Chuck Connor on USDA's delay in implementing the National Veterinary Medical Service Act, which was signed into law on December 6th, 2003. This Act authorizes the USDA to establish a loan employment program for veterinary graduates who agree to work in areas of the country that are underserved by veterinarians....
Passing the farm on to the next generation often proves to be a difficult task for farm families. K-State Research and Extension, the K-State Department of Agricultural Economics and the Farm Credit Associations of Kansas are teaming up to present a workshop series aimed at making the transition easier. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s beginning to look like farmers will have the option of participating in a revenue-based, counter-cyclical payment program in the next two or three years no matter which version of the 2007 farm bill Congress passes....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Wheat looks like a good option for Southwest farmers in 2008....
Oklahoma City- The torrential rains that ravaged Oklahoma this spring, summer and early fall generated an estimated $30 million in damages to conservation practices throughout Oklahoma according to early numbers compiled by conservation districts and the Oklahoma Conservation Commission....
National long-term weather forecasts are calling for a warmer than normal fall and winter in Kansas. Yet, snow has already fallen this year to the north and west - as close as the Rockies and western Nebraska. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Some Texas peanut farmers got a jump on harvest to limit losses from leafspot infections that hit late in the growing season but still expect decent yields....
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (ODAFF) will host a two-day conference in November to promote agritourism and alternative agriculture opportunities in Oklahoma....
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