Now, the market will move to see if the weather will cooperate and allow those acres to be planted. farmers told the USDA they plan to plant more than 12 million more corn acres and 8 million less soybean acres in the upcoming growing season. This report might show more need for the market to provide incentives for Brazilian farmers to clear land to plant 5 million to 8 million more acres of soybeans. For example, he asks, does North Dakota have enough ammonia tanks to plant 900,000 more...

This is leading to the results on the peak of the either sides, quality cotton is being taken out of the market very fast and there is a panic among the buyers, he added. The low-grade cotton has got an appreciation of about Rs 250 per maund in the last one week with the help of movement in the market and the shortage of good stuff. They said due to high demand of cotton from buyers, the ginners, especially of Sindh offered quality lint on slightly higher price. In the international and...

A number of measures have been taken by the Government to protect and safeguard the interests of farmers, like regulation of markets, grading of agricultural produce, cooperative marketing etc. The importance of sound agricultural marketing policies for ensuring fair returns to the farmers can hardly be over-emphasized. It, therefore, becomes necessary on the part of regulatory agencies to ensure remunerative prices to the farmers for the sale of their produce, to boost up their efforts...

Its not often you see a lot of harvest equipment going full speed ahead in late February, particularly when the fields full of nothing but desiccated 15-foot stalks. In between shooting photos, I answered questions for those who stopped to ask about all the activity (Brent was driving one of the boll buggies shadowing the harvester and didnt have a lot of time for PR work) And while much of agricultures emphasis today is on ethanol production, Brasher and the MSU engineers are running a...

His cotton fields have just produced a bumper crop of the white gold upon which millions of West Africans depend. But this Burkina Faso farmer who for 20 years has made a living on the plantations of the region s biggest cotton producer has yet to see his cheque. Six tonnes of picked and priced cotton lie heaped on his farm, ready to be sold. US cotton subsidies ruining farmers. Free-Market News Network does not represent, warrant, or endorse the accuracy, reliability, completeness or...

Weather so far has not been a determining factor for agriculture production in Texas, but lack of rain could alter the number of crop acres planted and yields. State agriculture producers are hoping there isn't a repeat of 2006 when crops across the state were ravaged by drought. Prospective corn plantings statewide are predicted to be 2 million acres compared to 1.76 million acres in 2006, according to estimates. The drop in Texas cotton acres is in response to the change in corn acreage...