Drought returns to most of state 

Nov 5, 2008,

By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University

Large parts of the state continued to experience drought or abnormally dry weather, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service reports....

U.S. economy may have ways to go before rebound 

Nov 5, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Economic conditions in the United States and much of the rest of the world could get worse before they get better. ...

Farm transition workshops planned in Kansas 

Nov 5, 2008

Bringing family members into the farm business and passing the farm from one generation to the next can be the best - and worst - of times. ...

Obama could win four southern states in march to victory 

Nov 4, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The solid South isn’t as solidly Republican as it once was, a fact which could give Barack Obama 55 more electoral votes and help put the Democratic presidential nominee in the White House, a veteran political analyst said....

AgriLife Research, Extension to investigate Cowhouse Creek conservation practices 

Nov 4, 2008,

By Blair Fannin
Texas A&M University

A team of Texas AgriLife Research scientists and Texas AgriLife Extension Service specialists has received a $647,000 federal grant to evaluate the impacts of conservation practices within the Cowhouse Creek watershed in Central Texas....

Oklahoma black bear population increasing 

Nov 4, 2008,

By Sean Hubbard

A new hunting season may be on the horizon in Oklahoma....

CCC announces new rules for USDA cotton program  

Nov 3, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The Commodity Credit Corp. has approved new regulations that could make it easier for cotton producers to redeem marketing loans on their 2007 crop and possibly return a little extra money when they do. ...

Nutty year leads to short pecan crop in Texas, U.S. 

Nov 3, 2008,

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....

New studies confirm ethanol benefits 

Nov 3, 2008

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....

S. Texas sesame acreage could double for 2009 

Oct 31, 2008,

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....

Cotton producers in Northern High Plains vote to continue boll weevil program 

Oct 31, 2008

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....

USDA production forecast indicates stronger sorghum, DDGS exports 

Oct 31, 2008

The United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released a corrected U.S. Crop Production report Oct. 28....

Sesame fills gap in failed cotton fields 

Oct 30, 2008,

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....

Hard freeze could reduce row crop yields in some areas 

Oct 30, 2008

Normally a hard freeze in late October or early November in Kansas comes too late to hurt row crop yields. ...

USDA scientist gives insight on climate change and its implications for world agriculture 

Oct 30, 2008

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....

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