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Top Stories Conservation planning and technical assistance help make every drop of irrigation water count 8/14/08 Burt and Eric Heinrich were impressed enough with the subsurface drip... more Thirsty cotton plants call for irrigation 8/12/08 In decades past, cotton producers on the Texas High Plains believed water in the Ogallala aquifer was... more Thirty days and $1.13 decline in wheat prices 8/7/08 Between June 24 and July 23, wheat prices fell from about $8.40 to $7.27. With 38-bushel... more Hello Dolly, goodbye LRGV cotton crop 7/28/08 Virtually all 91,000 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley cotton crop was destroyed by... more OTHER TOP STORIES 1 2 3 4 Headlines Grain sorghum producers contend with many insect pests Sep 4, 2008 8:28 AM, By J.D. Bilbro Contributing Writer Planting dates for grain sorghum in Texas range from January in the Lower Rio Grande Valley to July in the High Plains. ... Effective grass waterways need regular maintenance Sep 4, 2008 8:23 AM Producing a good crop demands a lot of attention during the growing season. ... Texas soybean board seeks board members Sep 4, 2008 8:20 AM Tom Rotello, Chairman of the Texas Soybean Board and a farmer from Navasota, announced the date of their upcoming election for board members. ... Not all wheat producers will make a profit Sep 3, 2008 2:14 PM, By Kim Anderson Oklahoma State University Free markets provide consumers quality products at the lowest price and provide producers a competitive rate of return on investment.... Hurricane Gustav makes its mark on the 2008 rice crop Sep 3, 2008 2:12 PM The USA Rice Federation is currently assessing the damage from Hurricane Gustav in south Louisiana and southeast Texas, and is monitoring storm-related weather patterns very closely in the rice-growing regions of northeast Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri.... Final 2007-crop counter-cyclical payments for peanuts Sep 3, 2008 2:10 PM Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced that USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) will issue $82 million in final 2007 counter-cyclical payments (CCP) to eligible producers with enrolled peanut base acres in the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP).... WFEC to sponsor State’s First Carbon Sequestration Pilot Program Sep 3, 2008 2:08 PM ‘Groundbreaking.’ This is how Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts President Scotty Herriman described the recently announced agreement between Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC), the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts (OACD) and the Oklahoma Conservation Commission (OCC).... Southwest Farm Press News Archive Commentaries Energy source in 2058 likely will be different By Ron Smith Farm Press Editorial Staff I don’t know what we’ll rely on for energy in 50 years and, on a personal level, I guess it doesn’t really matter. ... $4 gas may be what it takes By Hembree Brandon Farm Press Editorial Staff Maybe this time around it’ll stick. Perhaps the shock of $4 and who-knows-how-much-higher gasoline and the knife it’s thrusting into the back of the U.S. economy will finally spur the determination and commitment necessary to begin freeing this country from the tyranny of imported oil.... Featured Photo Galleries 2008 High Cotton Award Winners

advertisement Farm Bill ACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmers The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ... Farm bill: Several provisions delayed until 2009 The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue.... USDA issues advance direct payments America's farmers will receive up to $1.15 billion in 2008 advance direct payments that began July 7....    Farm Bill Archive Across the Sunbelt Researchers predict increase of drought-resistant crops within 10 years Western crop farmers now plagued by worsening water shortages from endangered species protection, reduced mountain snow and runoff, and growing urbanization demands will likely have more drought-resistant crops available for their production toolbox in the next five to 10 years.... Cellulosic ethanol pilot plant: UT/DuPont DuPont and the University of Tennessee have announced plans to build a new cellulosic ethanol pilot plant and research facility that could help provide the best of both worlds for the renewable fuel.... Crop conditions continue to vary in lower Southeast Crop conditions continue to vary widely across the lower Southeast and that is particularly true for Alabama where some corn was reported to be in the best shape in recent years, while other fields bordered on disaster. ... Latest Jobs

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