By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With the House farm bill proposal passed, the Senate proposal coming and Congress in recess, USDA head Mike Johanns visited RFD-TV studios in Nashville, Tenn., to again push the Bush administration proposal and jab at alternatives....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Dumas, Ark., USDA Cotton Classing Office classed a whopping 2.6 million bales from last year’s Mississippi and Arkansas crop, with a September record of 741,000 bales....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mississippi’s Delta was Asian soybean rust-free until an Aug. 12 find in a Stoneville sentinel plot. Less than a week later, the disease had also been discovered in Sunflower and Hancock counties....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As combines began to strip Mid-South cornfields of grain, the second week of August brought temperatures well above 100 degrees. It also brought the realization that cornfields are where cool breezes go to die....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.” That line from a movie (don’t ask me which one; I can never remember) is an apt description of what too often passes for political discourse these days....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A team of researchers at Arkansas State University is making headway toward solving a big obstacle in the production of cellulosic ethanol — a less-expensive way to produce the enzymes needed to break down plant cell walls. And the answer could come from a corn kernel, of all places....
By Bob Scott
Arkansas Extension Weed Specialist
Herbicide resistance seems to be all that I talk and write about lately, and there is a new resistant weed to discuss....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I recently spent a morning with Bob Scott, University of Arkansas weed scientist, looking at his Palmer pigweed control research plots in the Newport, Ark., area....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Communications Specialist
Extreme hot and dry weather in August is stressing cattle and cattle producers alike, says Tom Troxel, professor/beef cattle specialist with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s a good thing the U.S. cotton program is damaging Brazil’s cotton producers. If it wasn’t for USDA’s counter-cyclical payments and the marketing loan, you’re left to wonder just how much cotton would Brazil’s growers be turning out now?...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers may be able to increase corn yields by splitting their nitrogen applications, but they could help the cause considerably if they can water the nitrogen in, LSU AgCenter researchers say....
Water, shade and power become precious commodities for cattle producers during Arkansas’ triple-digit summers, said Don Hubbell, a cattleman and director of the Livestock and Forestry Center in Batesville, Ark....
By Mary F. Hightower
Arkansas Extension Communications
When the temperatures reach the triple digits, horse trainer Cheri Vogelpohl Barnard likes nothing better than to see paddocks full of sweaty horses....
Timberland owners interested in learning how to use GPS to better manage their land have an opportunity at the Hands-On GPS and GIS Workshop offered by the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service on Aug. 25 in Fordyce, Ark....
By Robert H. Wells
Delta Research and Extension Center
Although Mississippi State University Extension personnel found Asian soybean rust in the state’s largest soybean-producing area, the Delta, they anticipate less than 20 percent of the crop is at risk from the potentially devastating disease....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The boom in ethanol has been a key driver for the agricultural sector this year — but that may not be so much the case in the years ahead, says Pat Westhoff, program director of the Food and Agriculture Policy Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
National Cotton Council leaders say they faced a “tough call” on the new payment limit legislation in the House-passed 2007 farm bill. But they’re convinced they made the right choice with the options they faced....
By Chris Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Strips of non-crop, native vegetation are beckoning to farmers, and part of the lure involves removing acreage from production. This apparent contradiction, once an absurd notion, is rapidly growing in acceptance....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
National Cotton Council leaders say they faced a “tough call” on the new payment limit legislation in the House-passed 2007 farm bill. But they’re convinced they made the right choice with the options they faced....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The on-again, off-again Conservation Security Program has received a fresh, infusion of funds that USDA officials say will allow them to complete payments on fiscal year 2007 CSP contracts and prepare for a future program sign-up....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Wow! Farmers have been taking it on the chin, media-wise, here of late. The House farm bill debate has brought assailants out of the woodwork....
Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Fifty-five percent of U.S. farms report having Internet access in 2007, up from 51 percent in 2005, according to a USDA report on farm computer ownership and usage released in August....
The National Corn Growers Association says the number of entries in its National Corn Yield Contest is another example of a potential record-breaking 2007 corn crop in the making....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For months at a time, Dal Luther hung around Ronnie Kennett’s office at Adams Land Co., in Leachville, Ark., hoping the land manager at the farming and ginning company would rent him a piece of ground to farm....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Asian soybean rust has now reached Tulsa, Okla., the farthest north it has traveled in 2007. The fungal disease isn’t through with the Mid-South, however. The second week of August saw six new ASR finds in Louisiana and one in Mississippi, a Pearl River County sentinel plot....
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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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