By Bonnie Coblentz, MSU Ag Communications
Mississippi State University agricultural economists calculate Mississippi farmers are suffering an estimated $485 million value loss in 2009. ...
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
If the U.S. is to reach the government-mandated target of producing 36 billion gallons of biofuels annually by 2022, “We will need to change the way we do business,” says a USDA official....
By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Providing a marketing outlook on a particular commodity involves much more these days than simply looking at supply and demand numbers, says Chuck Danehower, University of Tennessee Extension farm management specialist....
By Liz Morrison, Corn and Soybean Digest
It was the drought of 1988 that got John Wilken thinking about the wisdom of draining his “liquid assets.”...
By Roger Meissen, University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Farmers will soon have a new variety of wheat that promises high yields and excellent qualities in milling....
It’s difficult to erase the imagery of this season’s Mid-South cotton crop — the scraggly cotton hanging from plants, the chronic mud and the layer of bolls that escaped the picker....
By Rebekah Ray, Delta Branch Research and Extension Center
Mississippi State University’s Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, Miss., includes 4,100 acres, almost a hundred employees and a 30,000-volume library, the latter of which is directed by Rhonda Watson....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 79 counties in Mississippi as primary natural disaster areas due to losses caused by the combined effects of severe spring and fall flooding, and summer drought, that occurred March 1, 2009, and continuing....
By Harry Cline, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The World Trade Organization arbitration report on the infamous Brazilian cotton case says the U.S. will have to forfeit $300 million in export trade to the South American country....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
In a case of something written into the 2008 farm bill that’s yet to be enacted, U.S. catfish producers are pointing at the USDA’s failure to inspect seafood imports....
By Dwight Roberts, US Rice Producers Association
In 1989, the portrait of the U.S. rice industry and that of the Mexican rice industry was very different from what it is today....
By Mary Hightower, University of Arkansas
The estimated crop loss for the 2009 Arkansas harvest so far has risen to $309 million, not including lost wages of about $83 million due to decline in nearly 3,000 full- and part-time agriculture-related jobs, the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture said....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
With Arkansas farmers facing a largely disappointing cropping year and perhaps facing a wait of months before federal disaster assistance arrives, Delta Farm Press spoke with Jeffery Hall of the Arkansas Farm Bureau (AFB). ...
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
From the dawn of the computer age, games have been a staple of the programmer geeks who make computers run. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
There’s an underlying message behind those who slam commercial agriculture for its high-volume, high efficiency production model. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton futures broke out of a month-long trading range and surged to the highest level in over a year on Nov. 11 on spec trading. ...
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry will hold a field hearing in Little Rock, Ark., Monday, Nov. 23, at 1 p.m....
From the USDA
Seventy U.S. trade organizations received more than $234 million in fiscal 2009 to help promote American food and agricultural products overseas....
The use of alternative energy sources doubled to 11 percent since Rabobank’s last bi-annual Farm and Ranch Survey was released in April....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
On Nov. 4, Gus Wilson took a sample of soybeans with 100 percent damage....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Huge soybean crops in North America and South America could push world inventories higher and prices lower in 2010, according to a market analyst speaking at the CME Group press briefing on USDA’s Nov. 9 Crop Production Report and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
It takes plenty of patience to produce rice on Mid-South buckshot soils, says Avon, Miss., farmer Marvin Cochran. ...
From the American Soybean Association
The American Soybean Association has communicated to Ron Kirk, United States Trade Representative, its priorities for restarting World Trade Organization negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda “on a foundation that offers an improved opportunity for a successful outcome for U.S. farmers.”...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
During the last week of October, with Arkansas set to lose many millions of dollars due to unprecedented, near season-long wet weather, Arkansas Farm Bureau analysts compiled a report on just how hard-hit the agricultural sector is....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Weekly soybean export sales were above expectations. Soy oil sales were disappointing this past week. ...
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Nov 20, 2009 11:01 AM
The World Trade Organization has authorized Brazil to seek retaliation against the United States for it support of two U.S. commodity programs....
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University of Missouri Extension is offering an eight-week online course on managing farm machinery using precision agriculture, Jan. 12 through March 4....
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Mississippi State University agricultural economists calculate Mississippi farmers are suffering an estimated $485 million value loss in 2009. ...
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If the U.S. is to reach the government-mandated target of producing 36 billion gallons of biofuels annually by 2022, “We will need to change the way we do business,” says a USDA official....
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