By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For Mid-South cotton growers already facing a crop that’s expected to be short as a result of day after day of scorching heat and no rain, it’s scant comfort to know that things aren’t a lot better in other areas....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Unfortunately, too many Arkansas rice farmers know how damaging glyphosate drift can be to their crop. Now, the state’s Plant Board has set up the Glyphosate Drift Task Force to tackle the drift issue....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Mid-South corn harvest began early this year. “We’re at least two weeks ahead of normal,” said Erick Larson, Mississippi Extension corn specialist....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
According to USDA, Texas cotton growers will harvest only 4.2 million of the 6.4 million acres they planted this year, indicating an abandonment of around 35 percent....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In its first survey-based forecast of the year for corn and soybeans, USDA is projecting smaller production for soybeans than last month and a larger crop for corn....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Executives from Wal-Mart’s textile group say they’re still learning about sustainability and admit they’ve made some mistakes in the initial stages of the company’s campaign to replace many of its conventionally grown food and fiber products with organics....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA’s first survey-based forecast of the 2006-07 U.S. rice crop is 197.2 million hundredweight, down almost 3 million hundredweight from last month’s projection, and down 26 million hundredweight from 2005-06....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. cotton is at a crossroads, “and we’re all hoping there isn’t a train wreck,” says Shane Stephens; but “despite all the challenges facing us, I’m optimistic for the future of our industry.”...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The 2006 Mid-South cotton crop is shaping up as a variable but average crop.The variability is going to create some challenges for defoliation and harvest....
A workshop on the potential for producing energy and value-added products from biomass in Arkansas is set for Aug. 24 and 25 in Little Rock....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If cotton — being a desert plant — loves hot, dry temperatures, then Mid-South farmers should have a lot of happy plants these days, right? Well, not necessarily....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Fertilizer recommendations for Louisiana rice largely come from agronomy research done at the Rice Research Station in Crowley, La....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
While there are numerous fungicides available to treat rice diseases, they shouldn’t be seen as the ultimate goal in protecting a crop....
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced the Departments of Agriculture and Energy have awarded nine grants totaling $5.7 million for research aimed at accelerating the development of alternative fuel resources....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Richard Dunand is studying plant growth regulators — compounds that modify plant growth and development — for rice....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It has been a long, tough battle, but Mississippi cotton growers are getting in position to deliver a knockout punch to their long-time nemesis, the boll weevil....
Cotton Council International (CCI), the export promotions arm of National Cotton Council’s, celebrated 50 years of increasing exports of U.S. cotton, cottonseed and their products with a reception at Union Station in Washington, D.C....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Dr. J.B. Penn, undersecretary of agriculture for farm and foreign agricultural services and one of the few members of USDA’s top hierarchy with ties to the Mid-South, has submitted his resignation, effective at the end of August....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA’s weekly export numbers show that U.S. cotton merchants shipped 629,200 bales of cotton for the week ending July 27. Those shipments were the second highest ever, eclipsed only by the 715,000-plus bales shipped in mid-July, 2005....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With exports now accounting for 75 percent of U.S. cotton sales, Cotton Incorporated, the producer-funded research and promotion arm of the cotton industry, has developed a new, more export-oriented, Fiber Competition Division....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Are U.S. cotton producers willing to give up some of their safety net to harvest more of the upside from uptapped international trade?...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For now, there’s not much slowing down the ethanol boom and the good corn prices U.S. farmers are enjoying. So “sit back and enjoy the ride...
The office of the U.S. Trade Representative said World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy has appointed the three panelists to rule on a complaint by the United States against Turkey’s tariff-rate quota restrictions on imported rice....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
High temperatures and lack of rainfall have taken a severe toll on U.S. cotton production in the last three weeks, possibly pushing the 2006 crop to as low as 18 million to 19 million bales, a National Cotton Council economist says....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If Mississippi aerial applicators had been able to continue the five-year trend on drift complaints this spring, investigators with the Mississippi Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Plant Industry and the Agricultural Aviation Board would have had little to do....
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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).
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