By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Many farmers and timber land owners are realizing extra income from carbon payments, and many more might benefit from participation in the Cap and Trade Carbon Market, particularly if prices rise significantly along with worldwide efforts to combat climate change/global warming....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A two-year project now under way by the National Council, Cotton Council International, and Cotton Incorporated is aimed at identifying and addressing critical issues that face the cotton industry near-term....
The Obama administration has announced four Mid-South appointments in Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee. ...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Soybean rust remains a concern of Arkansas Extension specialists, but a minor one compared to other diseases popping up in the crop....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A cultural war inside farm country may be emerging between conventional agriculture and organic production and the issue is “not worthy of debate,” says Barry Flinchbaugh, professor of agricultural economics and farm policy at Kansas State University....
A farm accident at age 14 left David Wright of Plantersville, Ala., without his right arm. ...
The Fayette County Extension Office in Somerville, Tenn., will conduct a UT Corn Variety Field Day Thursday, Sept. 3....
In an effort to teach kids about recycling and how cotton denim can be recycled into housing insulation, Cotton Incorporated, along with National Geographic Kids magazine held a nationwide denim drive to set the Guinness World Record for the Most Items of Clothing Collected for Recycling....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The biggest threat from climate change has less to do with rising sea levels, shifting of agricultural regions, more hurricanes in the Gulf, or why the heck it rained so much during the dog days of a Mid-South summer....
By Shawn Wade, Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
Having closed out the 2008 Upland cotton marketing year, cotton producers across the U.S are shifting their thoughts to the upcoming USDA announcement of the Average Price Received by Growers and the final 2008-crop Counter-cyclical program payment rate....
The 2009 Jackson County Extension Service Field Day will be held on Friday, Aug. 28, at the Newport Research Station....
An informational meeting will be held on Sept. 1 from 10:30 a.m. until noon, in 212 Efferson Hall on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, to introduce a direct marketing service that could benefit many Louisiana producers....
Under a punishing afternoon sun and against a backdrop of maturing, well-managed corn, Pioneer’s Scott Jungman seems out of place. ...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
An Asian soybean rust scout team has found the disease in four more Mississippi counties: Calhoun, Coahoma, Quitman and Tallahatchie. ...
As Asian soybean rust finds in Mississippi continue at a brisk pace, plant pathologists in the state are fielding many questions about fungicide treatments....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. Treasury Department will always be involved in agriculture policy to some extent to provide people with food and energy, says former ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee Charlie Stenholm and current policy advisor for the law firm Olsson, Frank and Weeda....
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has removed a provision allowing certain speculators to exceed federal speculative position limits on agricultural commodities....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
USDA soybean yield estimates dropped a bushel from 42.6 to 41.7 per acre. ...
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Max Rothschild has spent much of his career looking at the DNA of pigs....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The 2009 fee for cotton classing services will increase to $2.20 per bale, up from $2.00 last year, according to David Rowland, assistant area director of the USDA Cotton Classing Office at Dumas, Ark....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Allowing organic crop producers to gain certification for biotech crops could encourage the development of a new type of environmentally sustainable agricultural production, with greater benefits for the consumer....
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I am enjoying the e-mails I am receiving from around the country regarding Palmer pigweed. ...
The National Cotton Council-coordinated 2010 Beltwide Cotton Conferences (BWCC) is set for Jan. 4-7 at the New Orleans Marriott and Sheraton New Orleans hotels....
Since Monday, Asian soybean rust has been confirmed in four additional Mississippi counties....
On the Wednesday evening, several new locations of low-incidence Asian soybean rust were reported in Arkansas’ Chicot County....
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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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Weather problems are now thought to be factored into market prices. ...
Nov 19, 2009 3:57 PM
Mississippi State University agricultural economists calculate Mississippi farmers are suffering an estimated $485 million value loss in 2009. ...
Nov 19, 2009 10:05 AM
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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