Search

The article discusses the continued rise of cottonseed prices which is driven by ginning process. Darren Hudson, director of the international center for agricultural competitiveness at Texas Tech University, explains several factors which drive the high prices of cottonseed such as the increased demand for cottonseed oil and meal. It also explores the outlook for cottonseed market as of October 2014.

The article offers information on the campaign by Childhood Agricultural Safety Network (CASN) to call on adults across the country to keep their children under the age of 12 away from tractors and similar farm equipment.

The article offers information on the certainty of Bradley Barretto, a freshman poultry science major at Auburn University in Alabama, to attend a four-year university in 2014. It mentions that Barretto had three scholarships his freshman year where he is one of the 44% of college students who receive scholarships/grants in the U.S. It says that Barretto, even working several jobs off and on campus, had to secure federal student loans.

The article profiles American professional speaker and blogger Michele Payn-Knoper who advocates to educate farmers and ranchers on how to promote themselves and their practices. She talks to mothers who want to make sure safety foods for their kids. Payn-Knoper notes that her conversation starts with farmers' engagement with detractors and offering a transparent look at their farms. She also tackles issues of biotechnology, genetically modified organism, antibiotic use and animal welfare.

The article offers information on the benefits offered by using social networking sites such as Twitter on agriculture and mentions the experience of farmer Rob Sharkey on using Twitter where he offers advice and tips related to farming.

The article reports on the 75th anniversary of National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinback which was published in 1939.

The article offers brief information on the best mobile apps for ranchers through the Apple iTunes store and the Google Play store including the ThermalAid for Heat Detection, the iHerd, the Revalor Fed Cattle Day Calculator.

The article offers information on farmland sales in various states of the U.S. as of 2013 including in Crisp County, Georgia sold by Wally Binns, J. Durham and Associates Inc., Washington County, Kansas sold by Raymond Bott Realty and Auction, and Breckinridge County, Kentucky.

The article offers information on participation of farmer Trent Boyd in the Farm Y'all festival in Cullman, Alabama contest along with county Extension agent Tony Glover to grow giant pumpkin and Boyd aims to educated people on how food is obtained from the farms.

The article discusses two mobile apps which are compatible with iOS and Android operating system including the Quickoffice Pro app which can create, edit and share Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, and the Evernote app which helps in sorting various operational needs.

The article mentions that according to the data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, fatal work injuries of farmers has decreased in 2012 and discusses the efforts undertaken by John May of Northeast Center for Agricultural and Occupational Health (NEC) to reduce agricultural health risks.

The article offers information related to the Facebook page of the American agricultural equipment maker Case IH North America where its equipment consumers can post their images with its products.

The article focuses on Marilyn Anthony, Eastern Region Director at the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, and Farm Lease Connection, an online "matchmaking" site where future farmers can contact people who own underutilized land and then lease that land for farming.

The article talks about the rancher Debbie Lyons-Blythe who owns a dairy farm.

The article offers information on selling of farmland in several part of the U.S. including Cross County in Arkansas, Buena Vista County in Iowa and Norton County in Kansas.

The article offers information on 85th National Convention and Expo organised by National FFA Organization (FFA) in Indianapolis, Indiana in October 2012.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles published in previous issues, including one about the short story "The Patient in One-Sixteen," by Ronald Sercombe in the December 10, 1955 issue, "He's Blind, But He's a Wizard," by Ben Pearse in the December 10, 1955 issue and "Then We Had Twins," by Harry Bell in the December 10, 1955 issue.