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...

The agrarian crisis continues unabated in Vidarbha region with six more farmers having committed suicide in the last 24 hours. The names of the victims were given as: Namdeo Bhimrao Bone of Tarnoli, Venkati Reddy Yeltiwar of Lingti village (both Yavatmal), Shankar Jhalte of Sogoda, Bhivaji Jadhav, Dattapur (both Buldhana), Madhukar Bhelkar, Chincholi and Bhandudas Bondre of Munhadevi (both Amravati district) The names of the victims were given as: Namdeo Bhimrao Bone of Tarnoli, Venkati...

The rebate rate on textile products, covering the cotton textiles and chemical fibre sectors, might fall from 11 to nine percent, said the source, while the rate on garments would be reduced from 13 to nine percent and on chemical fibre products from nine to five percent. The rebate rate on textile products, covering the cotton textiles and chemical fibre sectors, might fall from 11 to nine percent, said the source, while the rate on garments would be reduced from 13 to nine percent and on...

The secretary said farmers wasted no time planting crops that can be used to make ethanol. The corn crop has increased to 700,000 acres, primarily to supply ethanol plants, he said, but also to supply seed corn because bad weather damaged corn in other parts of the nation. I see a great reduction of the acreage planted in cotton and an increase in corn and feed, he said. Other unlikely crops fiber-producing plants such as high-fiber sugarcane and switchgrass are going to become...

The recently released USDA crop planting prospects indicated, not surprisingly, that farmers intend to plant much more corn this year about 12 million acres more! That along with increases in wheat, hay, grain sorghum and barley acres are being offset mostly by 8 million fewer acres of soybeans and a 3 million acre drop in cotton. One of the reasons that dual-purpose wheat systems are so popular in Oklahoma is that all too often the conditions that result in good wheat grazing conditions...

Increases in corn and wheat acreage are expected to come at the expense of soybean and cotton acreage, although intentions show a substantial increase in total acreage to be planted in 2007. For soybeans, supplies will likely remain ample even with reduced acreage in the United States due to large current supplies and record South American production. Planting intentions in western growing areas are down 4.7 million acres, while producers in the eastern Corn Belt intend to reduce acreage...