By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
As Kentucky producers begin to plan for the 2009 growing season, they face several economic challenges that could stymie their ability to obtain operational loans and impact their decisions on which crop to grow....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Suffolk, Va., farmer Tommy Rountree has seen a little bit of everything in his farming career, but risks involved in farming today is one of the toughest challenges he has had to face....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The University of Tennessee is developing a corn nitrogen calculator which will be available this winter as a link on the UT Web site: ...
In its report on crop production, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reiterated its expectation that the 2008 corn crop now being harvested will be the second largest ever, with the second-highest yield in history. ...
South Carolina growers are finishing a 2008 peanut crop that has been averaging 3,500 pounds per acre, which would set a new state record if realized. ...
Combines continued to roll through Kentucky soybean fields last week as 89 percent of the crop has now been harvested. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s starting to look like planting delays and other weather maladies experienced in several major growing regions last spring may be starting to have an impact on crop yields....
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
Recent fluctuations in the commodity markets and input prices have left farmers wondering whether to purchase next year's inputs now or wait to see if prices drop....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers in the Southeast had a to take a hard look at fall wheat planting, not because of bad weather or any other production-limiting factors, rather because of the high cost of fertilizers needed to grow the crop....
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) recently released its membership recruitment program for 2009, which continues an incentive-based effort to encourage corn growers to reach out to their colleagues and promote the value of a membership in the influential national organization and its state affiliates....
Corn and soybean harvest in Kentucky and Tennessee made good progress last week as growers put the finishing touches on the 2008 crops....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
While the fundamentals of the U.S. corn market remain strong, that may be overwhelmed — at least in the short-term — by outside influences....
Growers in the Piedmont and Coastal Regions of North Carolina took advantage of the lack of rain during the week and made great progress in the harvest of cotton, peanuts, sweet potatoes, and the planting of small grains....
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) has strongly criticized a recent survey on public attitudes toward hunger as just another “PR opportunity” created to slam corn-based ethanol at a time when the farming and food industries especially need to work together to lower food prices for Americans....
Kentucky growers received some much needed rainfall last week as the main farm activities were seeding wheat, harvesting corn and soybeans, and stripping tobacco....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A million acres too much here and there added up to an embarrassing moment for USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service in late October. ...
North Carolina growers are making good harvest progress, with corn, tobacco and peanuts mostly out of the field. ...
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) Nominating Committee invites growers who are NCGA members to become an integral part of the organization’s leadership by applying for positions on the NCGA Corn Board....
By Jim Langcuster
Auburn University
Imagine a recurring nightmare in which an army of goblins slowly robs you of your money and eventually your livelihood and whose numbers multiply no matter what you do to stop them....
Cool, wet weather arrived in the lower Southeast last week, delaying cotton, peanut and soybean harvest, but benefiting small grain seeding and forage crops....
The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) has announced the suspension of the grain marketing program and certification mark, Market Choices, which will be phased out by the fall of 2009. ...
By Lewis Campbell
Before we take a look ahead to the 2008-2009 growing season, let us take a quick look back at where we have been over the last two years. ...
By Katie Pratt
University of Kentucky
The state's winter wheat acreage likely will decrease this year because of high input costs and lower commodity prices, said specialists with the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture....
The National Corn Growers Association and several of its state affiliates have prepared a computer program that performs detailed benefit analysis of producer operations under traditional farm programs versus the new optional Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program....
Soybean harvest in Kentucky and Tennessee reached the half way point last week as fairly open weather prevailed over the two states....
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