Catahoula Parish had the most acres of grain sorghum with 46,641 acres, while Morehouse Parish led the northeastern part of the state in rice acres at 21,233. But Morehouse Parish producer Chris Carter said his family, who planted 2,800 acres of corn this year, will continue harvesting its crop through this week. Though Louisiana farmers planted their fewest acres of cotton since 1975 at 328,141, northeastern Louisiana producers had 80 percent of those. He estimated the soybean harvest is...

Both direct and countercyclical payments from the federal government are based on the number of acres of a commodity -- mostly wheat, corn, cotton, rice or soybeans -- a farmer planted on average in the past years. And as his neighbors grow horizontally, by adding acres, Geiger's farm slowly grows, too, but mostly vertically, through an economic concept known as "vertical integration" in which different steps in the creation of a product are owned by the same person. Farming has been in...

Now, the coconut grower hopes to plant as many as 12 acres of the stuff on his land near Bangalore. Nagendrappa didn't care much at all about jatropha, an ugly wild green shrub that thrives in India. Venkateswarao is also raising the plants -- on a dried-up stretch of dirt east of Hyderabad. Singh proclaims, as he points to 4-foot-tall jatropha. Singh, a horticulturist for India's Ministry of Railways, in a quiet garden by an old airport in New Delhi.

Ito ay base na rin sa pag-aaral kung saan lumalabas na tumataas ang pagtanggap ng mga mamimili sa tinaguriang Pinoy GM rice o genetically modified (GM) rice na inaasahang ikakalat na ng tuluyan sa 2011. MAARING bumaba ang presyo ng bigas sa bansa bunga ng unti-unting pagtanggap ng mga magsasaka at mamimili sa paggamit ng ibat ibang uri ng palay sa kanilang sakahan. Inaasahan ng mga eksperto na sa 2011, ang unang GM rice sa bansa ay makakapasa sa regulatory requirements para sa tuluyang...

A new study published in an alternative agriculture journal has gained widespread attention by claiming that organic farming not only could adequately feed the world, it might even yield more food and require less farmland. Another large dataset used by the Michigan researchers is so questionable that a paper critical of it published in the journal Field Crop Research was titled "Fantastic yields in the system of rice intensification: fact or fallacy?" The Michigan researchers dismiss this...