By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
July deluges in Southwest Texas officially ended a near two-year drought, but effects of that long dry spell may linger for years. ...
Texas Cooperative Extension will present its first-ever Prospective Grower Workshop on Oct. 16 for those interested in planting a commercial vineyard in the Hill Country....
By Harvey Buehring
Nueces County Extension Agent
Folks traveling the rural roads southeast of the Violet Community in Nueces County on Friday afternoon, August 24, were certain to do a double-take when they rounded the curve approaching the Larry Hellmann farm, near the junction of County Roads 30 and 57. ...
By Edith Chenault
Texas A&M University
A group of researchers - including Texas Agricultural Experiment Station scientists - have used gene fragments from Hereford, Holstein and Angus animals to create an artificial chromosome map. ...
By Steve Burns
Texas A&M University
A geographic information system workshop is set for Oct. 18 at the Texas A&M University System Research and Extension Center at San Angelo. ...
Rock stars and athletes aren’t the only ones making a comeback this year....
For the first time ever, Asian soybean rust has been confirmed in a Kansas soybean field....
In cooperation with Cotton Incorporated and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Mulch & Seed Innovations, LLC has developed two all-natural cotton-fiber hydromulch products that help control soil erosion – GeoSkin™ cotton hydromulch (used for semi-flat terrains) and HydraCX2® high-performance cotton hydromulch (used for steep slopes)....
High prices for grain on the boards of trade don’t necessarily show up at local elevators. Farmers harvesting record yields this fall are finding cash prices well below futures prices, said Melvin Brees, University of Missouri economist....
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
Might it be raining feral hogs this fall? "Raining" might be something of an over-statement, but the wet year could mean bigger litter sizes and more far-ranging herds, said Texas Cooperative Extension experts. ...
A few farmers and agricultural service providers went to the field in late July and August to find their global positioning systems (GPS) were not operating as anticipated....
Agricultural producers are poised to sign up for the 2008 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). In the past, producers have become ineligible for these programs because they had impacted wetlands by clearing land. The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service wants to help ensure that landowners are eligible for Farm Bill programs by assessing land for not-so-obvious wetlands before they improve their land. ...
Sorghum production is forecast at 495 million bushels, up 78 percent from last year. Based on September 1 conditions, the yield is forecast at 73.9 bushels per acre, up 17.7 bushels from last year. If realized, this would be the highest yield on record....
As September arrived, minor progress had been made with cotton harvest across the Lower Coastal Bend farming counties. The late maturing cotton crop was projected to be two to three weeks later than normal harvest completion. That was, of course, assuming no major weather-related interruptions. By the final day of August, many Nueces County farmers indicated they had completed harvest of only 35% to 40% of their cotton crop. In a typical year, the percentage of the crop harvested on August 31 is in excess of 95%....
Texas agricultural landowners interested in participating in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) need to apply by Nov. 16, 2007, if they have not already done so to be eligible for the next round of funding, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)....
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