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|  The Emmy-award-winning America's Heartland has been introducing non-farm viewers to the men and women who provide the food, fuel, and fiber we use and consume since 2005. The series is available in 20 of the top 25 television markets on more than 240 PBS stations covering 60 percent of the United States. Including its RFD-TV viewership, the series reaches more than 40 million viewers each season. The seventh season was underwritten by the United Soybean Board, the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture and Farm Credit, with the latter announcing it also would underwrite the series' eighth season. The National Cotton Council is among six organizations that provide in-kind production support. Visit AmericasHeartland.org to view episodes and access educational resources and complementary video series offerings.
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| (Farm Press) The National Cotton Council looks forward to working with the House Agriculture Committee on development of a 2012 farm bill that effectively meets U.S. cotton producers’ risk management needs. | |
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| (Farm Press) With cotton planting seriously getting under way during the first couple of days in May, thrips have not yet played their hand. | |
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| (AgriPulse) WASHINGTON - Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich, expressed confidence today that the U.S. Senate will debate their committee’s 2012 Farm Bill within the next few weeks and the legislation will have “strong, bipartisan support. | |
| OMAHA (DTN) -- Conflicting views between the House and Senate Agriculture Committees on fairness in the farm bill played out simultaneously Wednesday morning. | |
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| (fiber2fashion) Panabaaka Lakshmi, Minister of State for Textiles has informed that government of India has directed the Cotton Corporation of India to build a buffer stock of 10 lakh bales of cotton in order to meet the lean season requirements of the Textiles Industry. | |
| (Textile World) W. Duke Kimbrell, Chairman of the Board of Gastonia, N.C.-based sales yarn spinner Parkdale Mills Inc., has received the Boy Scouts of America's (BSA's) Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. | |
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| (Farm Press) A coalition within the U.S. specialty crop industry has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency and USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to conduct an environmental impact statement (EIS) for dicamba- and 2,4-D-tolerant crops, saying more study of the technologies is needed. | |
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| (Avalanche-Journal) LUBBOCK -- S.M. True, Texas agriculture legend, died Tuesday morning in an accident on his farm. | |
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