Recent Vegetable and Tobacco Articles

Late-season rains beneficial to Southeast

Oct 14, 2008 9:21 AM, By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff

While rainfall from tropical storms has been beneficial to some areas of the Southeast this year, other areas remain dry. ...

Antioxidants boost blueberry demand

Oct 13, 2008 9:22 AM, By Chris Bickers
Contributing Writer

Things have gone well for the blueberry since the turn of the century. ...

Sentinel crops provide downy mildew alerts

Oct 9, 2008 9:57 AM, By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

A system of sentinel plots, similar in design to the soybean rust defense system, is providing adequate warning for upper Southeast vegetable growers to protect their crop from downy mildew....

Crop harvest moves ahead in Kentucky, Tennessee

Oct 9, 2008 9:52 AM

Kentucky and Tennessee growers spent last week gathering corn and soybean crops that were cut a little short by dry weather during the growing season. ...

Strip-till, drip irrigation work well in tobacco

Oct 7, 2008 4:39 PM, By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Virginia Tobacco Specialist David Reed says going no-till with tobacco has been a long process, but combined with drip irrigation it may be a long-term solution for tobacco growers in the state....

Harvest progress varies across upper Southeast

Oct 7, 2008 3:08 PM

A combination of recent rainfall and a delayed planting season last spring has Virginia growers running to catch up with harvest. ...

Cotton harvest progressing in lower Southeast

Oct 7, 2008 9:44 AM

A week of dry weather allowed lower Southeast growers to make rapid progress with cotton harvest. ...

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News from the Farm Bill

House votes to suspend base acre provision

Sep 26, 2008 9:14 AM

The House passed legislation supported by both parties that would suspend for the 2008 and 2009 crop years a farm bill provision that required producers to have a minimum of 10-base acres to receive program benefits. ...

Senators, ag secretary spar over ACRE provisions

Sep 16, 2008 10:21 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

A group of farm-state senators led by Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin is asking Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer to stop trying to re-write the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 through the regulations implementing the new farm bill....

ACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmers

Jul 15, 2008 9:34 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

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, flooding: Economist Daryll Ray

Jul 9, 2008 9:57 AM, By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

After the first round of producer organization-sponsored farm bill meetings, Southeast farmers still have plenty of questions about the new legislation....

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