By Kathleen Phillips
and Paul Schattenberg
Texas A&M University
If Texas pecan growers and eaters are having to look hard for a kernel of good news this year, it is in the quality and nutrition the nut offers....
Ethanol production has a smaller carbon footprint than gasoline, and production can grow substantially without diverting corn from food and animal feed, according to a pair of new studies....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
South Texas could see an increase in sesame production in 2009 and potential exists for a significant jump in acreage within the next five years, according to a crop consultant in the Coastal Bend area....
The Texas Department of Agriculture announced today that cotton producers in the Northern High Plains Boll Weevil Eradication Zone have voted to continue program operations....
The United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released a corrected U.S. Crop Production report Oct. 28....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When Claude Otahal lost a significant chunk of his 2008 cotton planting to early-season drought, he looked for a replant option that could tolerate the pre-emergence herbicide already applied and that would give him a better than average chance of making a crop and a profit in what had already started out as a dry year in the Texas Coastal Bend....
Normally a hard freeze in late October or early November in Kansas comes too late to hurt row crop yields. ...
Plenty of media reports have been devoted to the subject of global climate change, but farmers and ranchers may still be wondering what the change means for how they´ll grow the food supply in coming years....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A million acres too much here and there added up to an embarrassing moment for USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service in late October....
Every producer hopes for a good, uniform stand of wheat by the end of October, but not everything goes perfectly every year....
The Multi-Commodity Exchange Program (MCEP), launched two years ago by the National Cotton Council, is proving to be a highly successful educational program as well as an American agriculture coalition-building effort....
Among the myriad challenges livestock producers face on a day-to-day basis, there is at least one constant – the issue of manure management, including capturing its full value....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Segments of the U.S. produce industry are initiating self-regulating policies they hope will prevent government regulations they don’t want....
By Rod Santa Ana
Texas A&M University
A highly successful soil testing program has helped Rio Grande Valley farmers save almost $2 million in fertilizer expenses while protecting a body of water critical to the ecology of South Texas, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service officials....
The 20th Annual Texas Plant Protection Conference will be at the Hilton Inn & Conference Center in College Station, TX on December 3 & 4, 2008. ...
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