August 18, 2010 RSS feed / Farm & Ranch

TDA Market Recap August 16, 2010

AUSTIN - (August 16, 2010) For the week ending August 14, feeder cattle prices at Texas auctions were mostly steady to $5 lower per hundredweight, with a few sales to $4 higher and some to $6 lower. More...

Texas crop, weather: Record cotton crop not due to bumper yield

COLLEGE STATION - While hot, humid days stressed some crops, cotton, for the most part, was doing well with few of the catastrophic failures of previous years, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service cotton expert. More...

Midwest farms have too many peaches

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) What good could possibly come from all of these hot, humid days this summer? Peaches. Lots of peaches. More...

Pit bull owner pleads guilty after dogs kill sheep

RUBICON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) A Port Hope man has pleaded guilty to two violations of dog laws after his two pit bulls escaped and killed a herd of sheep in Michigan's rural Thumb region. More...

Farmers blast Indiana over 1-69 land acquisitions

HAUBSTADT, Ind. More...

VALLEY CO-OP OIL MILL VALCO CHEMICALS

Rio Grande Valley Cotton Ginning Report More...

USDA expects record corn crop in Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The U.S. Department of Agriculture is predicting that Indiana farmers will bring in a record corn crop for the second straight year. More...

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