By Ann Perry
United States Department of Agriculture
Fragrant basil fields are already part of the landscape in Europe, Asia and some parts of the United States. ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has announced it has implemented a key strategy from its Business Plan to Advance Animal Disease Traceability by providing National Animal Identification System (NAIS) compliant "840" radio frequency (RF) eartags to animal health officials for use in the bovine tuberculosis (TB) control program....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Tuesday’s farm bill conference had to be particularly unpleasant for Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
As I write, our place is saturated and we are dodging tornadoes again. Farmers are very frustrated because they would like to be through planting corn and rice, and have a lot of soybeans planted. However, many have nothing planted and some do not even know when the water will go down....
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture has declared a crisis exemption to allow the use of anthraquinone (Avitec) for repelling blackbirds and crows in freshly planted corn fields in Tennessee....
Four farms in southwestern Louisiana and two in northeastern Louisiana have been selected by LSU AgCenter rice research scientists as off-station research sites. The sites, typically between 2 and 6 acres, are in the state’s two rice-growing areas....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The market’s return to earth from a volatile February and March when futures all but divorced from cash prices is not a sign that all has returned to normal, said Anthony Tancredi, president of Allenberg Cotton Co., Memphis, speaking at the Ag Market Network’s April 4 conference call....
By Betsy Ward
USA Rice President and CEO
With daily news stories about skyrocketing commodity prices creating global concern about food shortages, Americans need to remember the key role that a viable farm safety net has played in maintaining the stable and affordable food supply we all enjoy.
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Drier conditions towards the middle of the week ending April 20 helped Tennessee corn producers triple their planting progress from a week earlier, but progress remained about two weeks behind normal....
Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Lester Spell has announced EPA approval of emergency exemptions on two pesticides that will help rice and corn producers throughout the state protect crops from damaging pests this year. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Any momentum towards finishing a farm bill is at a snail’s pace. Even with the impetus of an increasingly frustrated agricultural base, last Friday’s farm bill conference largely focused on the merits of taxes and accounting methods. The meeting did not go well....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA raised estimated old crop cotton production nearly 400,000 bales from last month, pushing last year’s crop to 19.4 million bales....
By Bob Scott
Arkansas Extension Weed Specialist
There was a time when you could barely think of a weed control program for soybeans that did not include starting off with some kind of residual program. ...
By Gary Bates
Tennessee Extension Forage Specialist
Last year’s drought showed many cattle producers that summer is a critical time in a cow-calf operation. ...
The University of Missouri has been awarded a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant that funds three National Needs Fellowships for training of master's and doctoral students in bioenergy economics....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Rioting in Haiti in which mobs attacked the presidential palace and several people were killed; violent protests in Egypt; a strike in Jordan; demonstrations in Bolivia, Indonesia, Mozambique; and unrest in a score of other countries — all stemming from skyrocketing food prices and shortages....
University of Tennessee Extension entomologist Russ Patrick warns Tennessee producers that armyworms may be waiting to devour their wheat crop....
By David Long
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
This spring, two new conservation programs available to Arkansas farm producers can be utilized jointly to provide financial incentives and income to restore marginally productive croplands to a conservation tree practice that inter-plants mixed hardwoods with cottonwoods....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Generally speaking, late-planted crops are subject to more insect problems during the growing season. With rains and flooding keeping Mid-South farmers out of the field, scouting should be more intense this year....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The new farm bill’s conference committee met twice Wednesday afternoon and nearly completed a new forestry title. The farm bill is slowly taking shape, but slowly won’t get the job done in time to beat Friday’s deadline. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. corn producers need to plant about 89 million acres this spring to avoid exacerbating an already tight supply situation, according to Alan Conrad, with the Zaner Group, speaking at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange press briefing on the April 9 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In 2005, USDA officials spent thousands of hours traveling around the country, conducting farm bill forums in places like Decatur, Ill., Cheyenne, Wyo., and Blackfoot, Idaho....
The Cotton Futures Trading Commission Forum has announced a forum to discuss events affecting the commodity markets on April 22 at 9 a.m. at the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Not long after the farm bill conference committee was gaveled back in session on Tuesday morning, several key legislators, with the encouragement of their colleagues, headed to a negotiating session of their own. With a Friday deadline looming, Charlie Rangel, House Ways and Means chairman, and Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee chairman, are attempting to untangle a knot of funding issues outside the main conference. As of Wednesday morning, there’d been no word of their success....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Rapid change is the new constant in agriculture today, but Stuttgart, Ark., consultant Ray Dardenne is staying focused on what’s important to his clients — producing consistently high yields and a no-nonsense approach about what’s going on in their fields....
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Jul 24, 2008 10:31 AM
Senators Tom Harkin of Iowa and Richard Lugar of Indiana have introduced legislation aimed at addressing one of the valid criticisms of ethanol production — the lack of an economical way to move the renewable fuel to major markets....
Jul 24, 2008 10:28 AM
U.S. negotiators this week announced a new offer of a $15 billion cap in the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks on the broadest level of U.S. farm supports called overall trade distorting support or OTDS, according to a report from USA Rice Federation....
Jul 24, 2008 10:22 AM
Every year, Eric Webster receives many calls on Newpath and Roundup drift. “The glyphosate drift is primarily in northeast Louisiana,” said the LSU AgCenter weed scientist at the recent field day at the Rice Research Station in Crowley, La....
Jul 24, 2008 10:18 AM
Several weeks ago, traps showed large numbers of bollworm moths in Arkansas — including one in Jefferson County with more than 1,000 moths — but egg and worm numbers haven’t developed in cotton as expected, according to Scott Akin, Extension entomologist with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
Jul 24, 2008 10:15 AM
A bill that will relieve farmers and ranchers from undue burdens and regulations when they transport their crops and livestock across state lines has the support of the American Farm Bureau Federation....
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