MONTGOMERY, Alabama, April 3 (TNSRes) -- The Alabama Farmers Federation issued the following news: Alabama row crop acreage is expected to remain steady in 2021 as farmers welcome better prices but brace for surging input costs. Acreage estimates are nearly identical to 2020, save a 33% increase in winter wheat acres. That's according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Prospective Plantings report released March 31. "The stable acreage is due to rising input costs, crop rotation, eq  more

LONDON, England, April 6 -- The Journal of Experimental Botany, a journal that says it features improvement of plants for the sustainable production of food, fuel and renewable materials from the Society of Experimental Biology, published research articles, including the following topics, in its Vol. 72, No. 8 edition: Extra Botany: * Moving to and fro between Arabidopsis and its crop relatives confirms the role of chromosome remodelling on meiotic recombination * Synergistic adaptations: fr  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, April 1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: On March 1, 2021, Michigan corn stocks totaled 158 million bushels, 19 percent higher than a year earlier, according to Marlo Johnson, Director, USDA NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. About 58 percent of the corn was stored on farms. The second quarter disappearance was 97.7 million bushels, compared with 63.4 mi  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, April 1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Illinois Field Office issued the following news release: Corn stocks in all positions on March 1, 2021 totaled 1.23 billion bushels, up 1 percent from March 1, 2020. On-farm stocks totaled 530 million bushels, while off-farm stocks totaled 703 million bushels. The December 2020 - February 2021 indicated disappearance is 616 million bushels. Soybean stocks in all positions on March   more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, April 1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Minnesota Field Office issued the following news release on March 31, 2021: Corn stored in all positions in Minnesota on March 1, 2021, totaled 932 million bushels, up 8% from March 1, 2020, according to the latest USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service-Grain Stocks report. Of the total stocks, 65% were stored on-farm. The December-February 2021 indicated disappearance totaled  more

COLUMBIA, Missouri, April 1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Missouri Field Office issued the following news release: Corn stocks in all positions on March 1, 2021 totaled 272 million bushels, up 7 percent from March 1, 2020. On-farm stocks totaled 165 million bushels, while off-farm stocks totaled 107 million bushels. The December 2020 - February 2021 indicated disappearance is 126 million bushels. Soybean stocks in all positions on March 1, 2  more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, April 1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Mountain Regional Field Office issued the following news release: ARIZONA Off-farm corn stocks in Arizona on March 1, 2021 were 1.98 million bushels, down 24 percent from March 1, 2020, according to the March 1 Agricultural Survey and March Grain Stocks Report conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. Off-farm all wheat stoc  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, April 1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Northwest Regional Field Office issued the following news release: All Wheat Stocks Stored in Northwest Region Up 2 Percent from March 1, 2020 All wheat stored in all positions on March 1, 2021 totaled 53.3 million bushels in Idaho, down from 58.1 million bushels a year ago. Off-farm stocks were down 14 percent, while on-farm stocks were unchanged compared to the previous year. In Or  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service issued the following news release on March 31, 2021: Producers surveyed across the United States intend to plant an estimated 91.1 million acres of corn in 2021, up less than 1% from last year, according to the Prospective Plantings report released today by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Planted acreage intentions for corn are up or unchanged in 24 of the 48 estimating   more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) invested a total of $15M in two key programs awarded through its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics and Tools (FACT). NIFA awarded 18 Food and Agriculture Cyberinformatics Tools grants totaling $10.4 million to i  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 1 -- New Phytologist, a journal that says it features plant science and its applications, published research articles, including the following topics, in its Vol. 230, No. 3 edition: Review: * Linking plant hydraulics and the fast-slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems * Understanding the evolution of endosymbiotic organelles based on the targeting sequences of organellar proteins * Plastidial retrograde modulation of light and   more

ORONO, Maine, April 1 (TNSRes) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: University of Maine researchers are assisting in a multi-institutional effort to create new strategies for producing and marketing small grains like bread wheat, naked barley, hulless oats, rye and others. Farmers often underutilize small grains because they have less economic value than other crops. To increase their value and provide more revenue streams for Northeastern and Midwestern organic grower  more