The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and cooperating partners are forecasting normal to below normal runoff in Arizona’s major rivers and streams for the remainder of the forecast period through May based on recent snowpack measurements. ...
Robert Falconer will become executive director of the California Wheat Commission effective May 1, 2008....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s kinda like an economic version of Alice in Wonderland — while U.S. financial empires are crumbling, public confidence in the economy is spiraling downward, ominous mutterings about recession and even depression are heard, and the Fed desperately attempts to shore up the banking system, most major agriculture sectors are enjoying unprecedented favor....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As of late March, USDA officials tasked with carrying out President Bush’s farm bill wishes were unwilling to bend on several issues. Raising taxes and large program funding increases are particularly unacceptable. Legislators have been warned that any bill produced must hew to the president’s desires or it will be vetoed....
World rice production is expected to increase in 2008 by 12 million metric tons or 1.8 percent, assuming normal weather conditions, FAO said today. Production increases would ease the current very tight supply situation in key rice producing countries, according to the first FAO forecast for this year. International rice trade is expected to decrease, mainly due to restrictions in main exporting countries....
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
While the debate over agricultural biotechnology still rages in many parts of the world, China is moving forward at a rapid pace in developing genetically modified rice, according to a Stanford University professor who is an expert on the agriculture of the world’s most populous nation....
Now for some “shocking” news about plants: Exposing plants to electricity can boost production of useful plant chemicals and may provide a cheaper, safer, and more efficient method for producing medicines, pesticides, and other commercially important plant-based materials, researchers in Arizona and Oklahoma report....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As all sides continue to jostle over a new farm bill, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is an enthusiastic member of the scrum....
The National Cotton Council has scheduled dates and locations for the 2008 Cotton Foundation Producer Information Exchange (P.I.E.) Program....
Upland cotton acreage in Arizona is expected to total 140,000 acres, a decrease of 30,000 acres from a year ago, according to a planting intentions survey conducted by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Arizona Field Office....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. producers, taken aback by high nitrogen costs and spurred on by good soybean prices, intend to plant 18 percent more soybean acres this spring, according to USDA’s March 31 Prospective Plantings Report. The higher acreage comes mostly at the expense of corn, down 8 percent from last year....
By Marni Katz
Contributing Writer
New state restrictions on the use of soil fumigants are expected to hit Ventura County strawberry growers hard, but these new rules will also have an immediate impact on the ability of San Joaquin Valley growers to fumigate ground for planting permanent crops like almonds and other tree and vineyard crops....
Steven Bales, a cotton and hay grower in Buckeye, Ariz., is the new president of the Arizona Cotton Growers Association (ACGA). Bales and the new ACGA board will serve two-year terms....
Retail food prices at the supermarket increased in the first quarter of 2008, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. The informal survey shows the total cost of 16 basic grocery items in the first quarter was $45.03, up about 8 percent or $3.42 from the fourth quarter of 2007....
Herbicide applications to small grain fields in California were almost complete, according to USDA/NASS....
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