By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Congressman John Salazar, D-Colo., appears to have moved to the top of the list of the candidates to become secretary of agriculture in the Obama administration....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As Gary Adams, vice president of Economic and Policy Analysis for the National Cotton Council, took the podium to address the Sourcing USA Summit recently in Austin, someone asked if he had good news about the cotton market....
By Rod Santa Ana
Texas A&M University
Transporting citrus plant material into Texas is not only a threat to the state’s citrus industry, it is also against the law, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service citrus expert....
As we approach a new year, America is getting closer to the RFS mandate of 100 million gallons per year (mgpy) of cellulosic biofuels by 2010....
The U.S. government announced that there is no food or feed safety concern from an incident in which a small portion of an unauthorized genetically engineered (GE) cotton variety was harvested along with commercially available GE cotton....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Dealing with “surplus” stocks of commodities has often been a contentious issue for farmers and government officials, but USDA appears to have found a way to move those stocks without having an adverse impact on crop prices....
USDA forecast 2009 U.S. agricultural exports at $98.5 billion on Dec. 1, down $14.5 billion from August and $17 billion below record 2008 sales. ...
The world’s cotton-consuming countries are expected to import less cotton in the coming months as the executives who run their textile mills try to figure out how to survive in a time of decreasing demand for textile and apparel products....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
I just got back from Austin where I covered the Sourcing USA Summit. ...
Tractor sales in the United States for 2009 are expected to be strongest for 4-wheel-drive tractors and the 100-horsepower-and-over 2-wheel drive tractors, with Canadian sales strongest for 2-wheel-drive tractors in the under-40-horsepower range, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers in its annual forecast for U.S. and Canadian agricultural machinery sales, a snapshot of manufacturers’ predictions for 2009 business....
Kansas State University will team with Iowa State University, the University of Nebraska and the University of Missouri to present the 25th Annual 4-State Beef Conference Jan. 14-15....
By Vic Schoonover
NTOK Cotton
Oklahoma farmer Alan Mindemann is optimistic enough about a unique crop with great potential that he’s committed 820 acres to winter canola....
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
The dry weather has been a timely blessing for those harvesting cotton and other crops. ...
By Blair Fannin
Texas A&M University
A new book authored by a team of Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialists helps identify problem plants found throughout the state’s vast native rangeland....
By Steve Byrns
Texas A&M University
For the fifth time in as many years, Texas and New Mexico Extension agencies will hold their annual “Southwest Beef Symposium.” ...
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