A group of Northeast Texas farmers have created an organization to guide research and educational needs and develop a means to help finance special projects....More
Corn prices are dependent on corn production. Wheat prices are dependent on wheat production and corn production. Both wheat and corn production are dependent on the weather....More
Golden rice has become a lightning rod issue, with anti-GMO campaigners putting up fierce resistance to a crop that could save the lives of millions of children....More
Record breaking snowfall in parts of the U.S. plains in the past two weeks delivered some relief from the worst drought there in more than 50 years....More
“Sustainability is not an end goal,” says Alan Franzluebbers, an ecologist with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in Raleigh, N.C. “It’s a path.”...More
Have U.S. cotton producers been too hasty in their plans for wholesale shifts to grain this season? That’s a question many were asking after listening to Joe Nicosia, executive vice president, Louis Dreyfus Commodities, speaking at an ag update meeting at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show....More
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack received a thunderous ovation from a standing room only crowd at the recently completed Commodity Classic when he admonished the U.S. Congress to, “Forget about your party, forget about the people who paid for your last campaign, forget about your next campaign, and just do your job.”...More
Hindsight is nearly always 20/20. If prices could have been know with certainty, Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle wheat would have been sold on July 20, 2012 for about $9 per bushel. Wheat prices had increased from $6 on June 1 to $9 on July 20, 2012....More
More than 450 exhibits, featuring the latest in equipment, products, and services await you at the 61st Mid-South Farm and Gin Show, which begins today (Friday, March 1) at the downtown Cook Convention Center in Memphis....More
The 61st Mid-South Farm and Gin Show gets under way tomorrow (Friday, March 1) at the downtown Cook Convention Center in Memphis, offering more than 400 exhibits of the latest equipment, products, and services for the 2013 farming season....More
Farmers participating in the National Corn Growers Association 2012 National Corn Yield Contest set a new record by submitting 75 entries that surpassed the 300 bushels-per-acre mark....More
A problem for hard red winter (HRW) wheat is that it has not had and does not have enough moisture. Yet, some HRW wheat may have received moisture too late. Winter wheat that is just now germinating has a low yield potential...More
This is the third canola crop for Matt and the second for Bill. They recently moved to no-till farming, choosing to replace steel plows and leave crop residue in their fields to better manage wind and water erosion and soil nutrients....More
Continued high grain prices, environmental and climate concerns, need for a viable rotation for resistant weed management and anticipated use for ethanol will spur an acreage increase for grain sorghum in 2013 and beyond....More