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Cotton marketing services may be beneficial to producers. A number of professional services are available for growers who want to increase their options in the marketplace.
Category Archives: Agriculture
New Mexico producers EQIP deadline signup is Dec. 16
Dec.16 is deadline for New Mexico producers to sign up for specific NRCS programs. Producers need to receive a farm and tract number from the Farm Service Agency by the application deadline.
Yuma Ag & You: Be thankful to farmers, ranchers
During this season of thankfulness, everyone in Yuma County needs to reflect on the positive things about living here. A healthy agricultural industry that provides 48 percent or more of the dollars that support our economy is amazing.
Thanksgiving Tragedy
I know that seems weird, but before that first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims nearly starved to death because they didn't respect private property. When they first arrived in Massachusetts, they acted like Bernie Sanders wants us to act.
Grain column with Emma Croft
The UK grain trade has experienced a, to put it politely, 'extremely unusual' week following the announcement that Donald Trump will be the next US President on Wednesday morning. The news shocked both the world and the global commodity markets, the UK grain market included.
New Aerial Survey Identifies More Than 100 Million Dead Trees in California
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has identified an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May 2016. This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102 million on 7.7 million acres of California's drought stricken forests.
Trump has eye on Tom for position in Cabinet
Kosciusko County farm operator Kip Tom confirmed Wednesday that he is among prospective candidates for nomination as secretary of agriculture by President-elect Donald Trump.
The Latest: Trump to bar officials from lobbying for 5 years
Donald Trump's transition team says the incoming president is planning to require officials to pledge that they won't lobby the government for five years after leaving the Trump administration. Transition spokesman Sean Spicer says Trump will require new government officials to terminate their role as either state or federal lobbyists before joining the administration.
Perdue names leadership in acting roles as USDA reorganization takes shape
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has named three individuals who will take on leadership roles as the U.S. Department of Agriculture continues the reorganization announced on May 11, 2017 . In accordance with a directive in the 2014 Farm Bill, USDA created a new Under Secretary of Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs as part of a realignment of several mission areas.
Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune Organic farmers fight USDA to defend their turf
Dave Chapman is not afraid of getting a little dirty. For the past 36 years, he's dug his hands into the soil to plant, then pick, organic tomatoes from his fields and greenhouses in rural Vermont.
UN Efforts To Reduce Tobacco Cultivation Strikes Fear In Zambian Farmers
Clifford Nyambe Mayeya smiles as he demonstrates how his new maize mill works. Three of his seven children sit close by, captivated by the machine.
GOP leaders to Dem Gov.-elect Justice: Let us help you
Republicans who will hold a rare majority of West Virginia's six statewide offices are already banding together to try to influence yet another Democratic governor and a GOP-controlled Legislature. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey was the lone Republican on the six-member Board of Public Works after he was elected in 2012.
Rain delays Australia wheat harvest, could dampen exports
SINGAPORE/SYDNEY, Nov 10 Rain is delaying the wheat harvest in parts of Australia, threatening to disrupt deliveries from the world's No.4 exporter of the grain to key markets such as India and Indonesia. Expecting a near-record crop of close to 30 million tonnes, exporters had sold new-crop wheat for shipment in November and December.
Not Markets Alone but Creativity and Innovation for Development
As human beings, we are naturally social and creative. The inherent curiosity that drives us to innovate is ultimately a testament to the creative impetus that resides within all of us.
EDITORIAL: Republican tolerance of Sid Miller is evidence of declining American values
For all those voters out there confident in their decisions as they stroll into local polling places, we offer no further evidence of how mistaken many of these same voters have been in the past than Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. It's easy for some Republicans to laugh him off as GOP comedy relief, but a lot of folks in the agricultural industry haven't been laughing since GOP primary voters in 2014 bypassed two eminently qualified Republican candidates and instead chose this rodeo cowboy to oversee our state's farming and ranching sectors.
Officials survey crop damages
Hurricane Matthew might have been the death knell for many Eastern North Carolina farmers, according to federal officials touring devastated farms Thursday in Edgecombe County. U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-1st District, said many farmers were already operating at a margin when the storm blew into town in early October.
Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller calls Hillary Clinton C-word…
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has been mired in a number of controversies and scandals since he took office. Take a look at some of the most interesting.
Sanders Takes Aim at Insulin Makers in Latest Price Attack
Makers of insulin became the latest target for Senator Bernie Sanders, who has been going after pharmaceutical companies one by one over the issue of high U.S. drug prices. Shares of Eli Lilly & Co.
Massive Oklahoma manhunt ends with fugitive suspect dead
A western Oklahoma county sheriff says the manhunt is over for Michael Dale Vance Jr., a suspect in a string of violent crimes. A massive, weeklong manhunt for a suspect in a string of violent crimes, including the killing of two relatives, the shooting of three law enforcement officers and multiple carjackings, has ended in a police chase and... Authorities say investigators found three people shot to death outside a rural home in central Kansas, and an unharmed 18-month-old child was found inside.
Big producers like General Mills, Organic Valley get creative with organic food
Wild prairie grasses and wooden signs advertising handwoven rugs dot the roadside leading to the home of the nation's largest organic cooperative. The barn-style headquarters of Organic Valley, off a serpentine byway and tucked in the hills of southwest Wisconsin, feels far away.