Because of droughts and flooding in parts of the country along with substantial price declines for corn and soybeans, indemnity payments on crop losses during the 2008 growing season reached nearly $6.5 billion in mid February with more claims yet to be processed....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
President Obama’s proposal calling for the elimination of direct payments to large “agribusinesses” is drawing a strong reaction from members of Congress and some of the nation’s farm organizations....
By Audry Olmsted
Tall standing crop stubble left in a field after harvest benefits next year’s crop by protecting the soil and increasing water efficiency, as well as other advantages....
The United Sorghum Checkoff Program is pleased to welcome Virgil Smail of Manhattan, Kansas as the new USCP Executive Director....
By Steve Byrns
Texas A&M University
A Texas AgriLife Extension Service rainwater harvesting expert said the Texas Rainwater Catchment Association will hold its first statewide conference Mar. 20-21 in Kerrville at the Kerr County Hill Country Youth Exhibit Center....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Despite setbacks from Tropical Storm Erin in 2007 and Hurricanes Dolly and Ike in 2008, the costly and destructive boll weevil has been effectively eliminated from over 80 percent of Texas’ cotton and the benefits continue to accrue....
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
There's only so many ways you can describe "dry and drier," said Texas AgriLife Extension Service agents throughout the state. ...
By Sean Hubbard
Oklahoma State University
Some Oklahomans consider a day at the pond with a good companion, a cold beverage and fish nibbling at the hook to be a splash of heaven....
By Clay Pope
Executive Director, Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts
Congress and the incoming administration are getting ready to undertake the largest government plan to jump-start the economy since the Great Depression....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Speaking to an over-flow crowd at the recent South Carolina Peanut Growers annual meeting, Marie Fenn, managing director of the National Peanut Board said, the current salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter began in Minnesota in a nursing home facility in which salmonella was found in an open container of peanut butter....
By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University
This is the time for wheat producers to be in the field fertilizing and controlling winter annual weeds, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialist....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A train wreck has occurred in Mid-South agriculture with glyphosate-resistant weeds....
By Sean Hubbard
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma agricultural producers, greenhouse and nursery operators, certified applicators, homeowners and pesticide dealers can get rid of unwanted pesticides at three locations in March....
By Steve Byrns
Texas A&M University
Miles Dabovich has been named Texas AgriLife Extension Service’s administrator for the South Plains district effective March 2. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The global economic slowdown may not affect agriculture as severely as it does other industries, but farm families are feeling the pinch with commodity markets and production inputs....
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