By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The use of fertilizer in rice has come a long way since USDA and Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station scientists began performing experiments at the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station 100 years ago this spring....
Thornton, Miss., is the most recent location Asian soybean rust has been discovered. In a detailed announcement about the find Tom Allen says this the earliest the rust has been found so far north. Even so, no fungicide spraying recommendations have been made....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
In the week ending Aug. 7: Palm oil prices reached a two-month high supporting soybean prices. Export demand for vegetable oil is increasing, especially in Asia....
From the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff
As the U.S. commemorates National Catfish Month, producers in Arkansas and across the country are grappling with high feed costs and a drop in sales....
Check out this feature for events that will help you farm smarter and more profitably and stay in touch with those involved in Mid-South agriculture. ...
Allenberg Cotton Co. and Dunavant Enterprises will likely settle a merger agreement by Sept. 30, according to Allenberg Chief Executive Officer Joe Nicosia....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Declining stocks and a (hopefully) recovering economy could bring an uptick in demand for cotton in the new marketing year that began Aug. 1, says Gary Adams, vice president for economics and policy analysis at the National Cotton Council....
By Paul Counce, University of Arkansas
Draining rice fields for harvest is a critical timing question for rice growers....
By Larry Fugate, Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
Heavy July rains were viewed as a curse or a blessing across the Arkansas Delta, with soybean producers in the northeast citing brutal conditions since spring, while the precipitation was described as “very timely” in parts of Chicot and Desha counties in the southeast corner....
USDA will begin continuous sign-up for the new Conservation Stewardship Program Aug. 10 with the first signup period cutoff scheduled for Sept. 30....
The U.S. Senate this week overwhelmingly passed a $124.5 billion fiscal year 2010 appropriations bill for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration....
The Arkansas Rice Federation next week will host several grower meetings throughout the state....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Colusa, Fortuna, Acadia. Those are names you don’t hear much in connection with the rice industry anymore. ...
Set for Aug. 11 through Aug. 12 in Olive Branch, Miss., the 25th annual meeting of the Mid-South Association of Wheat Scientists (MAWS) will cover a long list of important topics. ...
From the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
Three types of caterpillars are defoliating soybeans, cotton and pastureland across millions of acres in Arkansas, according to Gus Lorenz, Extension entomologist for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
With a climate bill having passed the House and now being hotly debated in the Senate, questions about the potential legislation abound. ...
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
John Grant has an easy smile, the size-you-up-instantly insight of a seasoned horse trader, a prodigious store of details about crops he’s made, the varied work he’s done, places he’s been, deals he’s cemented, people he knows — and stories about all of them....
By Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter
The potential and problems of converting forest and agricultural products into biofuels was the focus of the third Louisiana Natural Resources Symposium held this summer....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Aimed at enhancing U.S. food safety after a series of high-profile product warnings and recalls, the House passed the Food Safety Enhancement Act (HR 2749) by a vote of 283 to 142 on July 30....
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
The story in the field now is pigweed, pigweed and more pigweed!...
Horizon Ag will hold a field day Aug. 11 at Tanner Seed Farm, 2893 County Rd. 675, 8 miles west of Bernie Mo., featuring the latest Clearfield rice varieties including CL 111, CL142-AR and CL181-AR....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Earlier this summer, after changes to the benefit of agriculture, a climate change bill passed the House. ...
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
With the debate over climate change seeming to heat up daily, the 25x’25 Alliance and a team of University of Tennessee economists have announced they will conduct an in-depth analysis of the impacts of global warming on U.S. agriculture and forestry....
By Bonnie Coblentz, MSU Ag Communications
Three weeks of cool, rainy weather in July were just what the state’s soybeans needed, breathing new life into the struggling crop....
Dectes stem borer, an insect that tunnels in soybean plants, is now found in significant numbers in soybean fields surveyed in 12 counties in southeast Missouri....
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Nov 6, 2009 2:56 PM
A wetter-than-normal growing season has cut into Arkansas’ farm receipts by more than $224.8 million as of Nov. 1, according to a preliminary report issued by the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
Nov 6, 2009 11:13 AM
Cotton losses due to record rainfall during September and October in Mississippi totaled $71 million by early November, or nearly half the value of the expected crop, according to the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce....
Nov 6, 2009 11:02 AM
The only Louisianan on the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Bill Cassidy tries to keep his state’s agricultural interests at the forefront....
Nov 6, 2009 10:57 AM
Before continuing with my pigweed control articles, I have tried to think of something encouraging to say about trying to get a crop out with the weather we are having. ...
Nov 6, 2009 10:54 AM
I was greatly disappointed in Morgan Freeman’s recent comments referring to the base stock of this state as a mule-headed bunch of farmers (see Behind the curtain: ‘mule-headed farmers’?). ...
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