USDA Meterologist Brad Rippey says all the recent moisture is causing harvest and quality issues for the cotton crop.
Pork Checkoff Recommending Flu Vaccinations
The Pork Checkoff is advising producers, farm personnel and others who have contact with pigs to get the regular seasonal flu vaccination as soon as possible.
Food Deserts
Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan is working on ways to get more healthy food options in areas of so-called food deserts.
Truth or Imagination
Today Everett Griner looks at just what statistics really proves.
Ag in Review for the Week of October 5, 2009
A highlight of agricultural news for this week from around the Southeast. To hear weekly reviews subscribe to our podcast .
Weekly Livestock Market Report
Here are the cattle market numbers for the week ending October 9th put together by the livestock market news service for the states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. AL: FL: GA:
Young Cattle Producers Blogging
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s Young Producers’ Council has motivated the newest faces of U.S. cattle production to tell their story on the organization’s blog, Cattle Call. To learn more about YPC’s new site click Here
October Crop Report Numbers
Tyron Spearman has a run-through of this morning’s crop forecasts issued by USDA NASS of the peanut, corn, soybean, and cotton crops.
October Cotton Crop Report
The National Agriculture Statistics Service released their monthly crop forecast for the 2009 cotton crop this morning as Shiela Corley with USDA NASS in Washington D.C. has the October numbers.
A Bad Weed
Resistant pigweed is a growing problem. How? Everett Griner tells us.