By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Food safety legislation is coming, and the agricultural industry must watch for it and be involved in shaping it. Otherwise, agriculture could be over-regulated with little improvement for consumers, says Cathleen Enright, Western Growers Association....
By Donald Stotts
Contributing Writer
Answers to the most beneficial methods of using animal manure as an alternative to costly commercial fertilizers is a click away on the Internet, thanks to the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service’s national connectivity....
Deputy Administrator of Cotton and Tobacco Programs for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Darryl W. Earnest, has approved both the Cotton Board’s and Cotton Incorporated’s 2009 budgets....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Paul Pilsner, crop consultant, San Benito, Texas, says picking up information on weed control will be a high priority for him at the 2009 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in San Antonio....
By Kay Ledbetter
Texas A&M University
The availability and use of wet distiller’s grains in beef finishing diets continues to increase as the ethanol industry expands, and some Texas AgriLife Research scientists are trying to determine if that will affect consumers’ meat purchases....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Reducing the carbon footprint. Environmentalists tell us we should be doing everything we can to lower the amount of greenhouse gases and other pollutants being released into the atmosphere....
By Kim Anderson
Oklahoma State University
I just looked at the markets and the Kansas City Board of Trade December wheat contract price was down 35 cents at $6.69....
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
Rain fell in many parts of Texas, improving winter wheat but setting back the cotton harvest, reported Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....
State officials are reminding hunters and meat processors in South Texas that additional precautions are required when handling deer carcasses due to concerns about spread of fever ticks in the region. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Have I ever mentioned how much I despise shopping for a new vehicle? ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Technology is helping Hockley County, Texas, farmer Steve Newsom make more bales of cotton on fewer acres of land....
To help explain the practical aspects of how Country of Origin labeling (COOL) is being implemented, the Oklahoma Grain & Stocker Producers (OG&SP) is hosting an educational session — with a free hamburger feed — during the Greater Oklahoma Farm Show, Friday, Oct. 24, in Lawton....
Farm Press and Monsanto Company have launched an online educational course on weed resistance management that offers continuing education credit/units for licensed applicators and Certified Crop Advisers in seven key Cotton Belt states....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Southwest grain sorghum producers making a late crop should be on the lookout for ergot, a disease organism that attacks unfertilized ovaries and creates honeydew that may cause harvest and storage problems....
The heart of winter -- December through February -- is a good time to apply fertilizer to tall fescue pastures in Kansas, as long as the ground is not frozen or saturated, according to Dave Mengel, K-State Research and Extension soil fertility specialist....
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This course covers a wide range of options to effectively control weeds in cotton and reduce the risk of weed resistance management. It is accredited for hours/units for licensed/accredited applicators in 7 U.S. Cotton Belt states (Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina an d Tennessee. CCA credit is pending).
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