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. ...
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....
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