The latest Arizona agriculture update from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Phoenix, Ariz., Field Office:...
Applications are due Monday, Aug. 31, for National Corn Growers Association members interested in working a one-year term on NCGA action teams or committees starting in October. ...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has removed a provision allowing certain speculators to exceed federal speculative position limits on agricultural commodities....
By Shawn Wade
Having closed out the 2008 Upland cotton marketing year, cotton producers across the U.S are shifting their thoughts to the upcoming USDA announcement of the Average Price Received by Growers and the final 2008-crop Counter-cyclical program payment rate....
By Dan Bryant, Contributing Writer
Pest control advisors (PCAs) and certified crop advisors (CCAs) can broaden their professional expertise by qualifying in both categories, says Steve Beckley, executive director of the Organic Fertilizer Association of California (OFAC)....
Gregorio Billikopf, University of California
Over the last week I have had a very stimulating conversation with a renowned physician and pathologist, Oliver Stanton, and Anders Ericsson, author of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) paper, “The making of an Expert.” ...
A team of California State University, Fresno viticulture researchers is seeking to develop a more accurate mathematical model for predicting wine-grape crop yields....
Detections of light brown apple moths in the Long Beach and Los Osos areas have prompted quarantines to contain the spread of the invasive pest....
A guava fruit fly eradication program has begun in a nine-square-mile area including Calabasas and Agoura Hills following the discovery of two guava fruit flies....
The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s (CDFA) Fertilizer Research and Education Program (FREP) and the Western Plant Health Association (WPHA) have teamed up to present a two-day conference on fertilizing techniques at the Visalia Conference Center in Visalia, Calif. ...
By Aaron Kiess, Executive Director, California Alfalfa & Forage Association
Around this time last year this column often provided updates on the alfalfa hay market. ...
David Schaad, acting executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in California announced that changes to the Farm Storage Facility Loan (FSFL) program have been implemented in accordance with the 2008 farm bill. ...
The latest California agriculture update from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., Field Office:...
The latest Arizona agriculture update from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Phoenix, Ariz., Field Office:...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA’s Aug. 12 corn crop production estimate is likely too low and forecasts for corn use and exports too high, which will add even more bearishness to corn once the information is digested by the market, according to Richard Feltes, an analyst with MF Global, speaking at a CME Group press briefing....
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