By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
You know those annoying news flashes that creep across the bottom of your television screen while you’re trying to watch some educational program like Samantha Who or the Big Bang Theory?...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Monsanto Co. has claimed responsibility and pledged “to take appropriate actions,” to prevent experimental cotton and cottonseed from entering the marketplace as either fiber, livestock feed or oil products....
The National Algae Association is the first national trade association for the algae industry in the United States. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
President-elect Barack Obama has named former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack to be his secretary of agriculture, saying he will be “fiercely protective of family farms but also forward looking on how we can develop cellulosic ethanol and harness wind and solar power to boost rural economies.”...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
President-elect Barack Obama’s announcement of his nominees for agriculture and interior secretaries drew a quick and mostly positive response from members of the agricultural, conservation and environmental communities....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It won’t come as a surprise to those who grow them, but a recent USDA report reveals the cost of producing vegetables and melons has risen significantly, by about 32 percent from 2004 to 2006. ...
By Paul Schattenberg
Texas A&M University
The Texas Water Resources Institute and the Texas AgriLife Extension Service will co-sponsor the South Texas Irrigation Conference and Trade Show on Jan. 20 at the Medina County Fair Hall, Farm-to-Market Road 462 in Hondo....
Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples is pleased to announce $5 million is now available to help farmers and ranchers improve production efficiency and air quality by upgrading their farm equipment through the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP)....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The current fall production area for harvest for the leading fresh-market vegetables in the United States is expected to decline from a year earlier. ...
When garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) was brought to North America from Europe more than a century ago, no one predicted it would carpet thousands of acres of forestland, choke out native plants and even disrupt the development of a rare native butterfly, Pieris napi oleracea....
By Kathleen W. Ward
K-State Research and Extension
Changing times are part of the program agenda for the 2009, five-state Great Plains Vegetable Growers Conference, scheduled for Jan. 8-10. ...
By Mary Lou Peter-Blecha
K-State Research and Extension
The 2009 Kansas Hay and Grazing Conference will be held Wed., Jan. 14 at the Kansas Farm Bureau building in Manhattan. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy has decided against holding a mid-December ministerial meeting that some said would have been aimed at trying to wrap up the Doha Round before a new U.S. administration takes office....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. textile manufacturers can begin signing up for the Economic Adjustment Assistance Program that Congress included in the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 to help stabilize the textile industry....
By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University
With declines in water tables and increases in fuel costs, pumping water is taking a larger share of agricultural production budgets, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialist....
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