Texas Tech University System Office of Technology Commercialization and Bayer CropScience have signed an exclusive licensing agreement to utilize a new cotton technology from the university’s International Center for Excellence in Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology....
Farmers may begin applying for Farm Storage Facility loans for corn, grain sorghum, rice soybeans and other crops following USDA’s implementation of the changes required by the 2008 farm bill for the program....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Is the Environmental Protection Agency deliberately trying to “stack the deck” against ethanol and other biofuels?...
Arizona’s upland cotton harvested acreage is estimated at 139,000 acres, up 6,000 acres or 5 percent from a year ago, according to the Arizona Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service....
The 2009 California olive crop forecast is 50,000 tons, down 25 percent from last year’s crop of 66,800 tons, according to the USDA/NASS. ...
Wine-type variety grape production for California is forecast at 3.30 million tons, unchanged from the July forecast and up 8 percent from the 2008 crop, according to USDA/NASS California field office. ...
California's 2009 apple crop forecast is 165,000 thousand tons, down 8 percent from 2008, according to the USDA/NASS California field office....
New UC studies showing the costs of producing sudan silage, sudan hay, sorghum silage, and sorghum for grain are now available....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicted that American farmers would produce the second largest corn crop in U.S. history, falling just short of 13 billion bushels. ...
The California raisin type variety grape forecast is 2.1 million tons, unchanged from the July forecast, according to the USDA/NASS California field office....
By Mark Bolda, UCCE - Santa Cruz County
The recent infestation of local crops by the spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, is serious....
By Kim Kaplan, Agricultural Research Service
A higher total load of pathogens — viruses, bacteria and fungi — appears to have the strongest link with Colony Collapse Disorder found so far, according to a new study published by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press editorial Staff
Cotton production is forecast at 13.2 million bales, up 3 percent from last year’s 12.8 million bales. Yield is expected to average 816 pounds per harvested acre, up 3 pounds from last year. Upland cotton production is forecast at 12.8 million bales, 4 percent above 2008. ...
By Rick Tolman, Chief Executive Office, NCGA
The prolific and talented author and contributor to The New York Times, Michael Pollan, is at the center of a self-initiated movement to redo our nation’s food system. The movement is built on a platform of opposing biotechnology and conventional agriculture – especially animal ag – while promoting the slow food movement, local production and organics. He is a frequent critic of corn production and puts it at the epicenter of his axis of food evil....
California agriculture revenues showed little change as the sales value of its products for 2008 were down fractionally from the 2007 income level of $36.4 billion, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service and Economic Research Service....
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