All Entries Tagged With: "production"
Record Corn Crop Planting in U.S.
U.S. Farmers Plant the Largest Corn Crop Since 1937 Washington, June 29, 2012 – U.S. farmers planted 96.4 million acres of corn, up 5 percent from last year, making it the highest corn acreage in the last 75 years, according to the Acreage report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics […]
VPG | Jul 04, 2012 | Comments 0
Lamar Hosting Workshop for Returning CRP to Production
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) was established under Title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 to control soil erosion and loss of productivity. The program has been credited with substantial reduction in wind and water erosion of marginal croplands. About 18.4 million acres of CRP contracts across the USA are expiring before 2012. […]
VPG | Mar 21, 2011 | Comments 0