The Texas Wheat Producers Association joined over 100 Texas-based business leaders and organizations in support of passing the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). In a letter sent to congressional leadership on June 18, the group emphasized the importance of maintaining free … Continued
Phys.org by University of Queensland The myth that modern wheat varieties are more heavily reliant on pesticides and fertilisers is debunked by new research published in Nature Plants today. Lead author on the paper, Dr. Kai Voss-Fels, a research fellow at The … Continued
Risk Management Agency Contact: FPAC Press Desk FPAC.BC.Press@usda.gov Farmers who planted cover crops on prevented plant acres will be permitted to hay, graze or chop those fields earlier than November this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today. … Continued
U.S. Wheat Associates By Steve Mercer, USW Vice President of Communications When U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) was planning to hold its 2019 Mexico Wheat Trade Conference June 2 to 4, 2019, no one anticipated that the threat of new tariffs … Continued
USDA Farm Service Agency USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) will begin accepting nominations for county committee members on Friday, June 14, 2019. Agricultural producers who participate or cooperate in an FSA program may be nominated for candidacy for the county … Continued
National Association of Wheat Growers and U.S. Wheat Associates Contact: Caitlin Eannello, Director of Communications, National Association of Wheat Growers ceannello@wheatworld.org, (202) 547-7800 Steve Mercer, Vice President of Communications, U.S. Wheat Associates smercer@uswheat.org, (703) 650-0251 U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the … Continued
USDA Contact: USDA Press Email: press@oc.usda.gov U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will take several actions to assist farmers in response to trade damage from unjustified retaliation and trade disruption. President Trump directed … Continued
National Association of Wheat Growers/U.S. Wheat Associates Contact: Caitlin Eanello, Director of Communications, National Association of Wheat Growers ceanello@wheatworld.org, (202) 547-7800 Steve Mercer, Vice President of Communications, U.S. Wheat Associates smercer@uswheat.org, (703) 650-0251 The announcement today that Section 232 tariffs on … Continued
AgriLife Today Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Shuyu Liu, 806-677-5600, shuyu.liu@ag.tamu.edu Wheat curl mite, greenbug and Hessian fly have long been troublemaker pests for Texas wheat, but a team of Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists is ready to go high … Continued
National Association of Wheat Growers Contact: Caitlin Eannello 240-423-4345 (Cell) Today, the USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced that it will hold a continuous signup period for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) beginning June 3, 2019 and offer extensions for expiring … Continued