Southwest Farm Press News Archive

Oil mill co-op adds new products

Sep 10, 2007,

By Vic Schoonover
Producers Cooperative Oil Mill

A 61-year-old agricultural cooperative, the Producers Cooperative Oil Mill (PCOM), will soon enter another phase of service to farmers and farm cooperatives. ...

Pain, agony accompany shoulder surgery

Sep 10, 2007,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Let the whining begin....

Weak basis lowers cash price 30 cents

Sep 10, 2007,

Kim Anderson
Oklahoma State University

At this writing, the Texas Gulf wheat basis is 23 cents compared to last year’s 55 cents and the five-year average of 53 cents. The cash wheat price is determined by adding the basis to the KCBT December wheat contract. Thus, the cash wheat price at the Texas Gulf is about 30 cents lower because of the weak basis. ...

Inquiring minds want to know more about cotton fleahoppers

Sep 7, 2007,

By Tim W. McAlavy
Texas A&M University

Inquiring minds want to know. The supermarket headlines tell us so. ...

Wind Energy and Wildlife Thrust of Oct. 25-26 Abilene Conference

Sep 7, 2007,

By Steve Byrns
Texas A&M University

Wind energy and its effects on wildlife will be the focus of a conference in Abilene Oct. 25-26 at the Big Country Hall at 1982 Lytle Way. ...

Time to terminate irrigation on 2007 Oklahoma cotton

Sep 7, 2007,

By Vic Schoonover
NTOK Cotton

No more water is the unfamiliar advice being given by Dr. J. C. Banks, Oklahoma State University Agricultural Extension state cotton specialist at Altus. ...

Cuba markets could triple volume of ag products for Corpus Christi

Sep 6, 2007,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Liberalized trade with Cuba could double or triple the volume of agricultural exports leaving the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas. ...

Over half of U.S. farms have Internet access

Sep 6, 2007,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Fifty-five percent of U.S. farms report having Internet access in 2007, up from 51 percent in 2005, according to a USDA report on farm computer ownership and usage released in August. ...

Keep an eye on December ’08 cotton futures

Sep 6, 2007,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

December 2008 cotton futures will have the job of buying back U.S. cotton acreage lost to corn come next spring, so cotton producers can look for some price appreciation around that time, according to Memphis cotton merchant Joe Nicosia, speaking at the Cotton Roundtable at the New York Board of Trade in New York City. ...

Harvest season challenges continue for Texas coastal farmers

Sep 5, 2007,

By Harvey Buehring
Nueces County Extension Agent

A week of rain-free, sunny weather ramped up the temperatures to the “sweltering point” during the second week of August. That accelerated the drying of waterlogged grain sorghum and cornfields across the Lower Coastal Bend region. This, in turn, brought equipment back to the fields awaiting harvest. ...

Americot breeding program to flex newly-acquired muscle

Sep 5, 2007

With the purchase of the NexGen brand of cotton seed, Americot Inc. became the third largest cotton seed company in the United States and the second largest in the Southwest. The company is now poised to flex its newly acquired muscle....

Monsanto seed patent ‘rejections’ leave bevy of questions

Sep 4, 2007,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Last February, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected a Monsanto patent related to the company’s dominant biotech seed business. On July 24, the office rejected three more. ...

Fever tick quarantine expanded in Zapata County

Sep 4, 2007

At least 50 premises in Zapata County are in a temporary preventive quarantine area designated August 29 to prevent the spread of the cattle fever tick. The quarantine, issued by the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC), requires that livestock being hauled within or from the designated area first be manually inspected for cattle fever ticks, dipped, and permitted by personnel from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Fever Tick Force or the TAHC....

U.S. agricultural exports expected to reach record levels

Sep 4, 2007

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced a record $79 billion forecast in FY 2007 agricultural exports. For fiscal year 2008, USDA forecasts exports to reach $83.5 billion with growth and new sales across all major agricultural product groups....

Johanns to promote CAFTA-DR in travels to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

Sep 4, 2007

Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced that he will travel to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras Sept. 4-7, 2007, to highlight early successes of the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR)....

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