By Carol Sanders
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
U.S. Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln will address The Catfish Farmers of Arkansas at noon, Oct. 5, at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) Aquaculture Research Station immediately after the Aquaculture/Fisheries Center of Excellence Field Day....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Monsanto announced today that the Environmental Protection Agency has granted an unconditional registration for its Bollgard II or second-generation, insect-protected cotton technology. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s largest commodity organizations sent letters to House members Thursday urging them to sign the discharge petition to bring emergency agricultural disaster assistance legislation to the House floor for a vote....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers harvesting Louisiana crops continue to dodge late-season rains. Now on the tail-end of collecting the soybean crop, “harvest is progressing rapidly,” says David Lanclos, LSU AgCenter soybean/corn specialist. “I’m extremely optimistic with how things are shaping up....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Brazilian officials have filed a second request for a new World Trade Organization panel to investigate U.S. compliance with an earlier WTO dispute panel ruling against the USDA cotton program....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
At the recent Missouri Rice Farm field day outside Glennonville, Mo., Gene Stevens tackled two soil-related topics: chlorine fertility in rice and the economics of building up phosphorus and potassium in a low testing field....
By David Long
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission
Now is a good time for row crop farmers to evaluate their croplands for enrolling crop borders in the new quail/wildlife buffer practice of the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program available through USDA’s Farm Service Agency....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Helena, Ark., soybean, rice and wheat producer Buron Griffin Jr. and your typical environmentalist both see green when Griffin’s John Deere 8410 tractor runs across a field....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Saying he wants to ensure emergency assistance bills only help those with emergencies, Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, introduced legislation that would limit how Congress responds to natural disasters....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Steve Harrison expects Louisiana wheat acres to at least double in 2007. “A lot of talk around here is about the lack of seed from the good varieties,” says the LSU AgCenter wheat breeder....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When discussing or planning to plant rice, uniform seeding rates are often cited. But is the seeding rate really set in stone?...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The 2006 harvest season is a little ahead of schedule in the Mid-South, according to USDA’s Sept. 25 crop progress report. In some areas, however, crop conditions are iffy at best....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Louisiana’s latest confirmation of Asian soybean rust came Sept. 25 with a find in St. Landry Parish. The disease has been found in 16 parishes....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farm-state senators struck out in their first attempt to pass a new emergency assistance bill when Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., attempted to attach it to a port security bill....
Tests by an independent laboratory found no GM rice in samples of breeder seed or foundation seed grown by the University of Arkansas over the past three years, according to Milo Shult, UA vice president for Agriculture....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With farmers navigating dire financial straits and mid-term elections rapidly approaching, many rural state Democrats are pushing Republicans to pass agriculture disaster assistance. ...
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mississippi’s Delta Wildlife organization is making strides in its efforts to preserve, enhance and restore the region’s wildlife and habitat, says Trey Cooke, executive director....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Communications Specialist
In 30 Arkansas counties, grazing beef and dairy cattle are competing for grass against legions of armyworms....
By Lamar James
University of Arkansas
Extremely high numbers of stink bugs are being found in late-planted soybeans in southeast Arkansas, said Gus Lorenz, Arkansas Extension entomologist....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Several House members have scheduled a press conference today to demand the passage of disaster assistance legislation for farmers and ranchers who experienced weather-related losses in 2005 and 2006....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The third time was not a charm as Senate Republican leaders once again blocked efforts by a bipartisan group of farm-state senators to provide assistance to farmers and ranchers hammered by weather disasters in 2005 and 2006....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The red rice out-crossing tour stop was a lively one for Nilda Burgos. It turned out many at the recent Southeast Research and Extension Center field day in Rohwer, Ark., were interested in the University of Arkansas weed scientist’s research....
By Kelly Bryant, Rob Hogan, Scott Stiles
University of Arkansas Extension Economists
Transgenic cotton varieties, commercially available since 1996, have been widely adopted in the Mid-South. In this article we take the data from a replicated study and look at the variability of returns associated with different transgenic technologies in cotton....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Leaders of the major U.S. farm organizations told the House Agriculture Committee they support the 2002 farm bill and favor extending the law as is until a final WTO agreement is in place....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
You know things are going awry when the diehards start expressing doubt. And in the annals of diehard, hardcore, to-the-dying-breath Republicanism, Ben Stein ranks right up there....
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Jan 8, 2009 12:04 PM
Times are tough in the cotton industry, but cotton producers have overcome challenges in the past and can do so again if they will stick together, the winner of the 2009 High Cotton Award for the Southwest says....
Jan 8, 2009 10:27 AM
Statistics tell a troubling story for the U.S. ethanol industry. In its Dec. 11 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, USDA projected lower U.S. corn use mostly due to reductions in ethanol use and corn exports. ...
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Producers shouldn’t spend too much time waiting for the next miracle herbicide to come along. ...
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Despite greater scrutiny of imported aquaculture commodities by U.S. authorities, there continue to be concerns that tainted products make it through inspection....
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