Articles Tagged with ''cotton''

Leaders of major crop groups say the farm bill commodity programs won’t adequately protect their margins at a time of skyrocketing input costs, but the organizations aren’t ready to propose specific changes.

Surging commodity prices have pushed crop insurance guarantees to record highs or near-record highs for farmers in the Midwest and Plains states this spring, which will help them protect their revenue against the soaring input costs.

In water-strapped states like Texas, producers are using irrigation to reap the benefits of cover crops. Producers in other states, while not directly irrigating cover crops, see a benefit in the water requirements of their cash crops. 

Rep. Jim Baird, R-Ind., and 65 of his Republican colleagues are urging EPA to take steps to ensure growers can continue to use dicamba in over-the-top applications.

The cost of fertilizer exploded in 2021 and farmers across the country are going to be hit even harder in 2022, according to a new study by Texas A&M University’s Agricultural and Food Policy Center.

The Department of Agriculture made little change to key figures for corn, soybean, wheat and rice figures on the last “report day” of 2021.

This is the first part of a four-part series examining the promise of cover crops, the potential for them to meet the nation’s environmental goals that rest on their success, and the potential pitfalls and unintended consequences of trying to make cover crops work in parts of the country where they currently don’t.

A new grant from the Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation and the Soil Health Institute centered around regenerative cotton-growing practices aims to eliminate one million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2026.

The nation’s sugar cane crop likely took the biggest beating of any farm commodity from Hurricane Ida as it barreled northeast through Louisiana and Mississippi over the weekend and into Monday, but some cotton, rice, and soybean acres may have seen damage too.