Texas AgriLife San Angelo Master Marketer Program to begin in January 

Dec 11, 2008,

By Steve Byrns
Texas A&M University

Texas AgriLife Extension Service has scheduled the first of a four-part Master Marketer Training for Jan. 21-22 at the Tom Green County 4-H Building in San Angelo....

Oklahoma State’s Clarence Watson assumes leadership of national research association 

Dec 11, 2008,

By Donald Stotts
Oklahoma State University

Clarence Watson, associate director of the statewide Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station system, has assumed the duties of chair for the Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors....

Seven revolutions dictate global sustainability 

Dec 10, 2008,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

By the year 2050, the world population, estimated to top 9 billion, will require twice as much food as today, and water demand will double — possibly stretching the “carrying capacity” of the planet. ...

Fertilizer prices dropping, but much of state still drought-stricken 

Dec 10, 2008,

By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University

As the stock market fell so did commodity prices. ...

West Texas counties added to fire ant quarantine 

Dec 10, 2008,

By Steve Byrns
Texas A&M University

Red imported fire ants have made it to far West Texas, and officials say it appears they are probably here to stay....

Watershed planning short course to be offered Jan. 12-16 in Bandera 

Dec 10, 2008,

By Paul Schattenberg
Texas A&M University

The Texas Water Resources Institute of Texas A&M AgriLife will be presenting a Texas Watershed Planning Short Course from Jan 12-16 in Bandera....

Testing finds U.S. commercial rice 99.9 percent LL trait-free 

Dec 9, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

U.S. rice farmers have moved a giant step closer to putting the genetically engineered Liberty Link-trait controversy behind them....

Colorado’s Salazar could be new ag secretary 

Dec 9, 2008,

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....

Good news hard to find in cotton economic outlook 

Dec 8, 2008,

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....

Movement of citrus plants into Texas is illegal 

Dec 8, 2008,

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....

All we want for Christmas is cellulosic ethanol 

Dec 8, 2008

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....

FDA, EPA and USDA conclude that accidental release of genetically engineered cotton poses no safety risk to humans or animals 

Dec 5, 2008

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....

USDA barter program providing food for hungry 

Dec 5, 2008,

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 lowers exports for 2009, imports up 

Dec 5, 2008

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. ...

ICAC forecasts a 12 percent decrease in world cotton trade in 2008-09 

Dec 5, 2008

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....

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