By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The old saying that what goes up must come down is proving to be true once again in agriculture. ...
USDA’s Farm Service Agency has begun signup for the Milk Income Loss Contract or MILC program. ...
In the midst of the national economic downturn, the food industry is ravenous for cost-effective ingredients....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A more liberalized international trade policy likely will not be an Obama administration priority in his first year in office....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Now that everyone can legally utter the 'r' word — recession — the big question now is how long will it last....
By Donald Stotts
Oklahoma State University
Stocker cattle operators looking to make the best possible business decisions can pick up practical management tips by attending the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service’s Stocker Receiving Management Conference on Jan. 21....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Some dozen years after introduction, farmers have embraced biotechnology as an effective and efficient part of their crop management strategies and claim reduced pesticide use, decreased trips across fields (and resultant energy savings) and no yield drag from transgenic varieties....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Former U.S. representative and chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Larry Combest sees more than a tad of irony in the Wall Street Journal and the other usual suspects criticizing farm programs while Congress debates massive bailouts of banks, borrowers and auto manufacturers....
By Steve Byrns
Texas A&M University
Those interested in wind energy and its effects on wildlife should mark their calendars for the South Plains Agriculture Wind and Wildlife Conference set to start with registration at 7:30 a.m. Feb. 13 at Lubbock’s American Wind Power Center and Museum at 1701 Canyon Lake Drive. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Thirty-five years ago this month, President Richard Nixon declared the country would be energy independent in a mere seven years....
By Linda Fresques
NMSU College of Engineering
New Mexico State University engineers and the boards of supervisors for the Central Valley and Peñasco Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD) have developed a novel herbicide sprayer that will provide an efficient and cost effective way to eradicate invasive plant species. ...
By Blair Fannin
Texas A&M University
The Academy for Ranch Management will host two prescribed burn workshops in 2009 at the Texas AgriLife Research Station at Sonora....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA is publishing an interim final regulation that will require individuals and entities to make significant contributions of (1) capital, equipment, land or a combination of those and (2) personal labor or active personal management to be considered “actively engaged in farming.”...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced farmers can begin signing up for the 2009 Direct and Counter-cyclical Payment program today....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cost of farm financing may be a bit higher and producers may need to be more prepared when they apply for operating and capital investment loans in 2009, say Texas agricultural lenders Alan Eubank and Jeff Taylor, both with the Panhandle-Plains Land Bank....
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