By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
During July 22 Senate Agriculture Committee hearings on cap and trade legislation it became quickly apparent that major questions have yet to be answered by proponents....
Heavy rain over the last two weeks has accelerated Southern rust, and with about a third of the fields untreated, Arkansas’ corn growers have been urged to scout fields for the disease....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
China attempted to auction 500,000 tons of soybeans this week. ...
The Delta Classic Scholarship Golf Tournament July 24 at the Helena (Ark.) Country Club raised more than $26,000 to fund scholarships for University of Arkansas students majoring in crop management or environmental, soil and water science....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A July run up in cotton prices that occurred even as fundamentals for cotton were decidedly bearish was likely a big reason why analysts at the Cotton Roundtable in New York City were having a tough time projecting a potential range for December 2009 futures prices....
By Patti Drapala, MSU Ag Communications
While Mother Nature is showing corn producers a little mercy after her relentless drubbing earlier this year, the futures market is not....
By Rick Bogren, LSU AgCenter
Farmers and ranchers who lost livestock as a result of adverse weather — including hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008 — may be eligible for federal disaster payments, according to an economist with the LSU AgCenter....
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Biomass conversion facilities can begin signing up to participate in the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, which will help increase production of renewable energy, according to Jonathan Coppess, USDA Farm Service Agency administrator....
By Ray Nabors, Contributing Writer
Cattle herd reduction has been ongoing for 3 years, herd size has dropped 16 percent in the last two and is now the smallest since 1973. This year marks the lowest calf crop since 1950....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
At the halfway point of the 2009 U.S. cotton crop, analysts are saying the crop is shaping up to be between 12.42 million and 12.56 million bales, which is about 750,000 bales under USDA’s July 10 estimate. The analysts made their projections at the annual Cotton Forum in New York City on July 24....
A novel agriculture professional organization is in the developmental stages for Southern field crops....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced the results of the request for referendum on the Soybean Promotion and Research Program (soybean checkoff)....
“The Importance of Trade in an Uncertain World” was the theme of the U.S. Grains Council’s 49th Annual Board of Delegates Meeting....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Over the last several years, as agricultural input costs have gnawed growers’ profits to the nub, interest in less-expensive poultry litter as a replacement for commercial fertilizer has increased....
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I have had several interesting responses to a recent article about pigweed resistance and the use of LibertyLink soybeans....
The percentage of rice headed is ahead of last year in Arkansas and Texas, but behind last year in the other major rice-producing states, USDA reported Monday in its Crop Progress Report....
By Robert C. Scott, Extension Weed Specialist, University of Arkansas
I believe this is the latest soybean crop Arkansas has seen in at least the last 10 years. I am getting calls on pre-emerge treatments, as well as on flowering beans that are about to canopy....
Varroa mites could literally be walking into a trap — thanks to a new attractant developed by Agricultural Research Service scientists in Gainesville, Fla....
By Johnny Morgan, LSU AgCenter
Scientists with the LSU AgCenter and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are combining their efforts in an attempt to control giant salvinia — a noxious aquatic weed that is spreading across Lake Bisteneau in northwest Louisiana near Doyline, La....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
At the outset of his talk, Donnie Miller tells those attending the Northeast Louisiana Research Station field day that his presentation will be “a little different.”...
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
The tough time of the season for rice weed control has arrived. ...
An internationally recognized genetics researcher who visited the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station said he is confident that the European Union eventually will accept genetically modified foods. ...
By Mary Hightower, U of A Division of Agriculture
Soybean growers in Jackson County have proven their persistence in the face of rainfall amounts of more than 35 inches since March, Randy Chlapecka, the county Extension staff chair for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, said Tuesday. ...
In a wood near you, powerful microbes quicken the decay of fallen tree branches. These adroit decomposers perform that essential role by producing specialized enzymes....
The LSU AgCenter now is offering several of its highest-quality publications for sale through its online store....
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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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