By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
I’ve watched this spring as farmers anxiously checked wheat fields, some hoping to see evidence of yield potential from a drought-stressed crop and others who managed to nurse fields through the winter with fairly good production prospects only to suffer two hard freezes in March and April....
By Steve Watson
Kansas State University
The Kansas wheat crop will soon be in the heading stage, which is when wheat becomes most susceptible to Fusarium head blight (FHB), or head scab, said Erick De Wolf, Kansas State University plant pathologist. ...
By Kim Anderson
Oklahoma State University
Oklahoma and Texas’ wheat production losses may remove the “cushion” from the 140 million bushel increase in hard red winter wheat stocks....
Conservation leaders praised Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry for his approval of the $25 million Conservation bond. ...
Preparations are well under way for the first San Antonio International Farm & Ranch show to take place Oct. 8-10 at Freeman Coliseum and its surrounding grounds, 3201 E. Houston St., San Antonio....
By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University
Two conferences designed to explore the opportunities and alternatives available to landowners with expiring Conservation Reserve Program contracts have been scheduled in Amarillo and Lubbock....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Corn growers want to see a mechanism in which they can sell carbon credits on a regulated market to help offset rising production costs from newly introduced climate change legislation, the president of the National Corn Growers Association says....
Conditions varied widely across Texas, with crops off to a good start in some areas thanks to rains. ...
By Roger Haldenby
Editor, PCG Email Services
Texas AgriLife Extension and Texas Department of Agriculture will be conducting a "Scout School" May 29, 2009 in the Lubbock Research and Extension Center Auditorium....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s food manufacturers are not in danger of running out of sugar despite their claims to the contrary, the American Sugar Alliance said in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday (May 18)....
USDA has announced a proposed rule for applying the dairy promotion checkoff to imported dairy products, a development many years in the making that has drawn the praise of the National Milk Producers Federation....
The USDA recently announced the passage of a referendum to continue the National Peanut Board, a farmer funded advertising, promotion and research board that works to increase demand for USA-grown peanuts....
By Ron Smith
Southwest Farm Press
Fertilizer for peanuts is a little better bargain this year than a year ago, but paying attention to soil test recommendations and application techniques still makes sound economic sense....
Texas’ 2009 peanut acreage will be down nearly 38 percent from last year’s plantings, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service. ...
By Sharon Dowdy
University of Georgia
Soybeans are the typical replacement for ground meat in patties. But patties made with black-eyed peas and peanuts could be just as good, say University of Georgia food scientists....
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