By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sen. Kent Conrad says farmers have been down the road the Bush administration’s farm bill proposals would take them before, and they probably don’t want to go there again....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It is being billed as a budget that meets USDA’s most important priorities while exercising the “fiscal discipline” needed to meet President Bush’s goal of balancing the budget in five years....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Good guys who do it right can finish first....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The shrinking domestic cotton market and the increased dependence on exports to sell as much as two-thirds of the annual U.S. cotton crop puts merchants between a cotton bale and a hard place to move bales from warehouses into shipping channels and overseas....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s not often that members from both sides in this divided Congress can agree on anything, but two Democrats and two Republicans have joined forces on legislation that could help sell more rice, wheat and other commodities to Cuba....
It has been almost 30 years since the San Joaquin Valley was opened up to commercial cotton breeders after 50 years of a one-variety law....
Pacific Ethanol, the largest West Coast-based marketer and producer of ethanol, will soon begin construction on a 50 million gallon per year ethanol facility at the Port of Stockton, Calif., dramatically increasing ethanol production capacity in the state....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Roundup Ready alfalfa seed sales were halted nationwide yesterday (March 12) as a result of a preliminary injunction issued in February by a federal judge who sided with a group of radical anti-biotechnology organizations and two alfalfa seed companies which want to force Monsanto to file an environmental impact statement on the herbicide resistant technology before resuming sales....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Numbers do not always tell the complete story. The latest California citrus crop estimates from the USDA-NASS California field office do not accurately reflect the reduction in West Coast citrus going to the fresh market and being diverted to juice or destroyed due to the devastating January freeze, according to an industry spokesman....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Inland Terminal‘s new public liquid fertilizer storage facility in Woodland, Calif. is in operation in time for the spring planting season, according to Johnny Council, spokesman for Inland Terminal. ...
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
American Pima cotton producers and marketers are on track to export 700,000 bales of cotton this season, once again leaving virtually no American Pima carryover....
By Dan Bryant
Freelance Writer
Tomato processors have joined the California Tomato Growers Association (CTGA) in establishing a group to promote the health benefits – and consumption - of processing tomatoes....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
By 2009 China will become the world’s largest exporter, passing the United States, currently in second place, within the next two years and then overtaking Germany to take the top spot....
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Metal thefts are a mushrooming epidemic, costing farmers, irrigation districts and utilities millions of dollars and jeopardizing crop production. It’s a quick crime for fast cash as thieves steal high value metals - copper, aluminum, brass, and bronze -- from irrigation pumps and wells, portable generators at construction sites, utility sub-stations, air conditioners, traffic signals and a universe of others....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
National Cotton Council leaders have looked at a schedule of upcoming WTO events and decided they do not bode well for U.S. cotton....
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