The August forecast for the U.S. cotton crop has been released by USDA, as Shiela Corley with NASS in Washington D.C. runs through the numbers.
Just before Bob Terry entered retirement recently after forty years of service in agriculture statistics with concentration on citrus statistics, his successor was named from the ranks of his team. Candi Erick will now be at the helm of the citrus statistics area of the Florida Agriculture Statistics Service. She is no newcomer to the effort, she has worked in the office for Florida at statistics for twenty years already. We caught up with Erick recently for comments as she settles in to her new position. Hear her comments in these reports.
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Southeast AgNet’s Tyron Spearman gives us the recent update on the condition of the peanut crop as reported from NASS and also tells us what the crop in Argentina is looking like right now.
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The National Agriculture Statistics Service has a new administrator as Dr. Cynthia Clark has been named to fill that position. Report (:20 mp3)
According to the National Agriculture Statistics Service, peanut acres in the U.S. are up this year compared to last year. Tyron Spearman runs through those and other crop numbers which were released this morning. Report (1:15 mp3)
The National Ag Statistics Service will be releasing the 2008 acreage report on Monday. The report, which takes a look at the major row crops in the country, is mostly considered important for the Midwest but Jim Ewing with the Florida NASS office says our state has its share of those crops as well.
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The floods in the Midwest may be getting all the news coverage, but here in the Southeast it’s dry again. Still, the state offices of the National Ag Statistics Service report that crops are making good progress and remain in mostly fair to good condition.
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In these reports, reflections from a statistics legend when it comes to citrus crop forecasting. For years citrus folks worldwide have watched and listened for crop numbers often having great impact on markets and grower returns, particularly in October when annual crop forecasts are released. In the first two reports posted herein, Bob Terry talks about the most recent citrus crop report, the last he will preside over in his work at the Ag Statistics Service. In the second two reports posted below, Terry discusses highlights of his forty-year career focused on citrus crop stats, and talks about what is in store for his future. And in the fifth and final report posted herein, having been the voice of our “LIVE” broadcast and internet release of the October Crop Forecasts since we began the on-air releases more than a dozen years ago, Terry discusses the importance of timely dissemination of the crop numbers for growers and all others involved in the citrus business.
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The latest Cattle on Feed Report from USDA’s National Agriculture Statistcics service shows four percent fewer cattle are in our nation’s feedlots this month compared to last year. Report (:30 mp3)
And one analyst said there are a couple of reasons why. Report (1:00 mp3)
In this feature with soon-to-retire citrus statistics administrator Bob Terry with the Ag Statistics Service, Terry discusses what his folks in the field are noticing with respect to the crop now on the trees for next season.
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The latest crop report information from the National Agriculture Statistics Service shows most of the peanut crop is in the ground, so Tyron Spearman runs through the numbers and how the overall crop looks at this time. Report (1:10mp3)
Tyron Spearman updates the latest numbers from the National Agriculture Statistcis Service on peanut planting progress. Report (1:00 mp3)
Cotton planting is catching up nationwide, while here in the Southeast, progress is running just about normal with 93 percent planted in Alabama and 82 percent planted in Georgia as of Sunday, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service state offices.
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Tyron Spearman runs through the numbers as to how peanut plantings are going both nationwide and here in the Southeast. Report (1:00 mp3)
It is with great sadness and tremendously heavy hearts we report of the passing of Lee V. McCoy, known to many of his legions of friends and colleagues as the “RealMcCoy”. Lee lost his battle with cancer early morning Thursday May 22 in a Georgia hospital, admitted the Monday before in a bout with pneumonia.
Please find details regarding Lee’s memorial services at the end of this news post.
For nearly a decade until making a move into a new career opportunity last year, Lee was a regional representative of this radio network. He travelled the region and nation, and occassionally overseas, newsgathering and representing the network from his home location Read the rest of this entry »
Cotton planting is halfway done in the state now according to the latest report from the Georgia office of USDA’s National Ag Statistics service and Richey Seaton with the Georgia Cotton Commission says that’s good compared to last year.
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Remember that nomination meetings for three positions on the Georgia Agricultural Commodity Commission for Cotton are coming up next week. May 28 at 10 am, Lee County Farm Bureau, Leesburg; May 28 at 3 pm, Bleckley County Farm Bureau, Cochran; and May 29 at 3 pm, Morgan County Farm Bureau, Madison
All cotton producers in those areas are urged to participate in making nominations for the commission.
USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service released their May 1 Cattle on Feed numbers this afternoon which showed a drop over last year at this time. Report (1:00 mp3)
Cotton planting is running behind normal nationwide according to USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service, but in the southeast, progress is right about on schedule
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Here is our interview this month with Bob Terry, Florida Ag Statistics Service. Report (3:46 mp3)
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USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service has released its final report for 2007 cotton production - overall down 11 percent from 2006, with the southeast down 36 percent.
Shiela Corley with USDA-NASS in Washington D.C. has all the final numbers.
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USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service put out their weekly crop progess report, as Tyron Spearman looks at where the process of planting peanuts across the Southeast and the other peanut growing areas stand at this time. Report (1:10 mp3)
HAVE YOU RETURNED YOUR CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE YET?
Unless you want to start getting phone calls or visits from the National Ag Statistics Service, you better get that Census of Agriculture form filled out and returned. Make it easy and do it on-line at agcensus.usda.gov.
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If we had an award of recognition for years of dedicated service to the citrus industry, we’d give it to Bob Terry. He plans to retire the first of June. He’s been handling citrus statistics for Florida Ag Statistics Service, working hand-in-hand with USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service for many years. He’s been a regular guest on our radio network and the featured guest of our “LIVE” October Citrus Crop Forecast Broadcast for more than a decade. We’ll talk to him about that between now and then. Meanwhile, in this report, Terry talks about what his team is noticing around the citrus crop in recent days and weeks. Report (1:00 mp3)
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HAVE YOU RETURNED YOUR CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRE YET?
Doug Kleweno, director of the Georgia office of the National Ag Statistics Service says they are using every means possible to get 2007 Census of Agriculture forms returned.
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In this report Bob Terry with Florida’s Ag Statistics Service shares some facts and figures about the April 2008 citrus crop update. Also, here is the USDA official document (pdf file) pertaining to this month’s citrus crop forecast update, and Florida Citrus Mutual’s news release (pdf file) about this month’s citrus crop update too.
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The US Department of Agriculture announced this week that farmers are expecting to plant more soybeans and less corn. Despite the eight percent expected decline in acreage, National Corn Growers Association official say the forecast of 86 million acres is still historically high.
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