After almost 20 years as director of the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD), Duane Shroufe has announced his retirement effective at the end of March 2008....
Despite higher prices, nutritionists still consider nutrient-dense cottonseed one of the most cost-effective feeds....
Honey bees and other insects important to agriculture could get help from recent genetic studies of a major agricultural pest--the fruit fly, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators who have completed genome sequences of 12 fruit fly species. ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) raised its forecasts for U.S. fiscal year 2008 exports, predicting sales could eclipse the previous record set in the last fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2007. USDA is now projecting the value of U.S. agricultural exports for fiscal year 2008 at $91 billion. That is $9.1 billion more than fiscal year 2007’s $81.9 billion total and $7.5 billion more than USDA thought as recently as August. Ken Hobbie, U.S. Grains Council president and CEO, said the projections were buoyed in part by U.S. feed grains sales....
A notice filed in the Federal Register by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) requires employers to use a new Employment Eligibility Verification Form (I-9) starting Dec. 26, 2007 for new hires. Employers who fail to use the new form could be subject to fines and penalties....
Leaders of the Produce Marketing Association (PMA) today welcomed the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement that mothers and young children participating in the federal government’s nutrition safety-net program would soon be guaranteed greater access to fruits and vegetables for their better health....
Higher-than-expected yields may improve the supply of the stable cooking oil....
By Brenda Carol
Contributing Writer
Herbicide resistance was a fact of life long before the latest round of findings that certain weeds are resistant to glyphosate, one of the most widely used and safest herbicides ever introduced into world agriculture. ...
The Far West Equipment Dealers Association (FWEDA) appointed the groups’ ’07-’08 board of directors during its 60th annual convention in Monterey, Calif. in November ’07....
Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson applauded the House passage of a comprehensive energy bill with a strong Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) that will strengthen and expand the growing market for ethanol and biodiesel....
The Almond Pest Management Alliance (PMA), with its publication of a Seasonal Guide to Environmentally Responsible Pest Management Practices in Almonds, has earned an IPM Innovator Award from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) for 2007....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Compared with a year earlier, fall season (primarily October through December) area for harvest of 11 selected fresh-market vegetables (excluding melons) is expected to be up 5 percent this year to 154,300 acres, according to USDA’s latest Vegetables and Melon Outlook....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
This summer, a Chicago, Ill.-based company predicted U.S. corn crop production would eventually decline from USDA’s Sept. 12 crop production estimate of 13.31 billion bushels. This prediction was based not on surveys, ear counts or a crystal ball, but on infrared satellite imagery of U.S. corn fields....
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging Arizona’s new employer-sanctions lost a key legal battle on Dec. 7, but plan a new legal attack that could still win the war....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will host a summit on citrus greening and the Asian citrus psyllid to enhance prevention, preparedness, response and recovery efforts. This meeting will take place on Dec. 17 and 18 in Bethesda, Md. It will provide a forum for federal, state and industry representatives to collaboratively discuss these efforts and integrate activities across all sectors to improve America's defense against this disease....
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