By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. farmers planted a record-breaking soybean crop this spring, according to USDA’s June 30 Planted Acreage report....
Wheat harvest across Kansas has commenced. ...
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation's Agricultural Division will host a Stocker Cattle Seminar from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 14, at the Kruse Auditorium on the Noble Foundation’s Ardmore campus....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s farm industry associations responded quickly last week to the announcement that an agreement had been reached between the U.S. House Agriculture Committee and the Energy and Commerce Committee making the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 more palatable to agriculture....
By Vic Schoonover
NTOK Cotton
Early cotton in the Kansas and northern Oklahoma area is in a lot better shape this year compared to the unpredictable planting weather of 2008, according to Dick Cooper, Plains Cotton Cooperative Association marketing specialist at Liberal, Kan.....
By Blair Fannin
Texas A&M University
Input costs and lack of rainfall were on the minds of many row crop producers at the 46th Stiles Farm Field Day recently....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Greenhouse gas emission legislation will be either a boon to agriculture or a nightmare to farmers and ranchers....
Commissioners and secretaries of agriculture representing 17 southern states and U.S. territories have said the Southern Association of State Departments of Agriculture (SASDA) formally opposes H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009....
It has been estimated that heat-related events in the Midwest have cost the cattle industry more than $75 million in the past 10 years....
The Cotton Forum could provide cotton producers with both a timely getaway from mid-season bugs and heat this season and get them up to speed on the latest cotton fundamentals and marketing opportunities....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A few hours after brokering a deal on the House climate bill, Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, explained why compromise was necessary, how the controversial indirect land use provisions will be handled and repeatedly commented on the mutual distrust between agriculture and the EPA....
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
Without rain and with temperatures soaring to the high 90s or topping 100, large parts of the state continued to suffer drought-like conditions, reported Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....
Recent actions by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seem to signal a move away from locally-led, cooperative approaches to controlling nonpoint source pollution from agriculture and toward greater federal regulation, said Trey Lam, president of the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts (OACD) in a letter sent to the members of the Oklahoma Congressional Delegation....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Representative Colin Peterson, D-Minn., and chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee, would like to slow the pace of the debate over the Waxman-Markey bill that would put carbon cap and trade legislation in place....
Volume sales of peanut butter increased 13.5 percent in April 2009 compared to April 2008, according to recent data from Information Resources, Inc. (I.R.I.)....
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