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Connectivity is major driver of Farm and Gin Show
By Tim Price, Mid-South Farm and Gin Show Manager This article also appears in the 2023 Mid-South Farm and Gin Show program. The farm and gin show takes place in Memphis at the Renasant Convention Center on February 24 and 25.
Weekly Cotton Market Review - USDA
Spot quotations averaged 81 points higher than the previous week, according to the USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service’s Cotton and Tobacco Program. Quotations for the base quality of cotton (color 41, leaf 4, staple 34, mike 35-36 and 43-49, strength 27.0-28.9, and uniformity 81.0-81.9) in the seven designated markets averaged 66.88 cents per pound for the week ending Thursday, February 21, 2019.
Clemson Names Dean of Ag Research, Experiment Station Director
Paula Agudelo. Photo: Clemson University Clemson University’s College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences has named Paula Agudelo associate dean of research and Experiment Station director. She will lead a statewide research enterprise that secured $13.6 million in grants in 2018 to conduct research in animal production, plant science, food safety and packaging science, global food security, agribusiness, forestry, and conservation of natural resources.
Virginia Cotton: Make Your Budget More Efficient
A pretty wet week will give us more time for paper work. When I think about budgets, I also think about ways of reducing costs. So as we move forward some of the ideas we come up with deserve some consideration, however we need to be the most careful on cutting costs that also reduce gross revenue. The first thing I try to do is to classify items as essential vs optional.
Webinar: Rice Market Outlook - The Short and Long Term, Feb. 26
Join in on Thursday, February 26 at 8:00 AM CST to hear from Milo Hamilton, President & Founder Firstgrain. He will give us an overview of the rice market outlook from a short and long term perspective with emphasis on the big rice picture.
Texas: Northeast Panhandle Grain Sorghum Conference, Perryton, Feb. 26
Photo: Blair Fannin, Texas AgriLife Extension The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Ochiltree, Hansford and Lipscomb counties will host the Northeast Panhandle Grain Sorghum Conference Feb. 26 at the Ochiltree County Expo Building, 402 Expo Drive, Perryton. Registration will begin at 7:30 a.m., followed by the program from 8 a.m.-noon. An auxin training is scheduled after lunch. The fee is $10 for the day, and lunch will be provided.
Texas Land Trends Report - The Value of Conservation Easements
Graphic from The Texas Land Trends project of Texas A&M’s Natural Resources Institute The Texas Land Trends project of Texas A&M’s Natural Resources Institute, or NRI, has published a special series report describing Texas landowner participation in land conservation easements and their value to agricultural production, water and wildlife.
Farmland Values Lower; Interest Rates Rising - Federal Reserve
Corn field landscape, pre-tassel. Photo: ©Debra L Ferguson Last week, the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis released updates regarding farm income, farmland values and agricultural credit conditions from the fourth quarter of 2018. Today’s update highlights core findings from the Fed reports.
Louisiana: Row Rice Gains Interest in Northeast Parishes
Polypipe doing its work in row rice. Photo: Jarrod Hardke, University of Arkansas Rice farmers in northeast Louisiana heard advice from LSU AgCenter scientists about growing their 2019 crop at a meeting in Rayville on Feb. 14. They also heard some potentially good news from the president of USA Rice about possible rice sales to China.
USDA: Weekly National Peanut Prices
The following prices are effective from 02/20/19 at 12:01 am Eastern Time until midnight Tuesday 02/26/19. The next announcement is scheduled for 02/26/19 at 3:00 pm Eastern Time. * $424.49 per ton for Runner peanuts * $415.84 per ton for Spanish peanuts * $429.80 per ton for Valencia peanuts * $429.80 per ton for Virginia peanuts These NPP are based on the 2018-crop loan differentials announced June 25, 2018.
Mid-South Farm and Gin Show, Memphis, TN, March 1-2
The 67th annual Mid-South Farm & Gin Show is set for March 1-2, 2019 at the Cook Convention Center, Memphis, Tenn. The south’s premier show offers attendees the opportunity to see what’s new in the industry and hear from respected leaders, according to Timothy Price, show manager. “We are expecting a bumper crop of new products and services at the 2019 show,” Price said.
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