By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
President Obama has signed legislation providing fiscal 2010 appropriations — $121 billion — for the USDA, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other agencies....
Approximately 255 million base acres on about 1.7 million farms were enrolled for 2009 in the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) and in the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s been said that we Americans are a people with a short attention span: We’re transfixed, sympathetic to, or outraged by whatever is most sensational at the moment....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Federal conservation programs are more popular than ever before, members of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research were told during an Oct. 7 hearing on the implementation of the farm bill’s conservation title....
USDA will not issue final 2008 counter-cyclical payments to farmers enrolled in the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program for peanuts, corn, grain sorghum, soybeans and oats because average commodity prices remain above levels that trigger these payments....
Rep. Travis Childers, D-Miss., has urged both USDA and the state of Mississippi to act swiftly in gathering information necessary to provide farmers with much-needed disaster relief....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Aside from the intensely polarized debate about health care reform, perhaps no issue raises more hackles nowadays than climate change legislation....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
We may not admit it, but writers like to be recognized for their work. Even the most jaded of us get a thrill when we see our byline. But I doubt we would enjoy the attention Time’s Bryan Walsh received in a speech by Iowa’s Senator Grassley on the Senate floor Sept. 29....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The thorny issue of immigration reform may get pricklier before it gets better, and Congress may have a narrow window of opportunity to make meaningful changes in a system that has not worked well for years before the cycle of national elections makes passing any contentious issue even more difficult....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln presided over her first Senate Agriculture Committee hearing as chairman on Sept. 30. Having taken over the chairmanship several weeks earlier (for more, see Lincoln to chair Senate Ag Committee), Lincoln spoke with Delta Farm Pressshortly after the hearing. ...
Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | Next
advertisement
This course covers a wide range of options to effectively control weeds in cotton and reduce the risk of weed resistance management. It is accredited for hours/units for licensed/accredited applicators in 7 U.S. Cotton Belt states (Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina an d Tennessee. CCA credit is pending).
Keeping crop protection chemicals on the crop for which they are intended has been a cornerstone of farming not only to protect neighboring crops, but to not waste money allowing products to drift off the intended target. This accredited online continuing education course covers the critical elements of spray drift management.
