University researchers often say they need three years of testing to determine whether a new product will perform up to expectations....
By Keith Perkins, Lonoke County Extension office
Have you ever wondered what to do if you had a weed resistance problem on your farm? ...
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
If you doubted global warming is a controversial issue all you had to do was look at the comments on the recent article in this space, “Climate change is not an aberration.”...
By Steve Suther, Certified Angus Beef LLC
Demand for beef is down. Can you blame the recession? Not entirely, but it’s a darned inconvenient coincidence....
American Agri-Women has received a grant from USDA to produce a television program for farm and ranch women, which is planned to air nationwide in 2009....
A regional conference focusing on enhancing current tourism resources and creating new ones in rural areas will be held Aug. 11-13 at the Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, La....
From the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry
A year-old thoroughbred filly in St. Tammany Parish tested positive for West Nile virus in mid-July, according to Mike Strain, Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner....
The Northeast Arkansas Rice/Soybean Field Day will be held near Weiner, Ark., on Aug. 7. ...
By Bobbie Crockett, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
On a cold April morning, a group of men gathers at a cluster of catfish ponds. ...
In today’s integral planter market there are a multitude of different seeding applications that require unique planter configurations....
The potential and problems of converting forest and agricultural products into biofuels was the focus of the third Louisiana Natural Resources Symposium July 16-17....
From the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry
Louisiana farmers, ranchers and agribusiness professionals are encouraged to attend informational meetings in Lafayette, Lake Charles, Jonesville, Hammond and Bastrop to learn how to qualify for grants and low interest loans to aid in their recovery from Hurricane Gustav....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Climate change is not just going to make you hot under the collar — if legislation now working its way through Congress becomes law, you’re likely to be paying more to farm, says Tara Smith, congressional relations, American Farm Bureau Federation....
By Ray Nabors, Contributing Writer
USDA’s supply and demand report was bearish with harvested acres expected to increase by 1.5 million to 76 million and soybean production expected to increase 65 million bushels to 3.26 billion. ...
The LSU AgCenter is offering a series of educational programs across the state, beginning July 21, to help people get into the agritourism business....
Having an “evacuation box” packed and ready to go with important papers and other items can prevent financial disasters and hardships if a serious storm comes your way, according to experts with the LSU AgCenter....
Natural Industries, Inc., has announced the release of a post-emergent biological herbicide for control of northern jointvetch, also known as curly indigo, in rice....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The climate change legislation now before the Senate has succeeded in doing something neither the nation’s environmental groups or the Bush administration could do: Create fault lines in the farm bloc....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A late crop and weather adversities are creating problems for the few Mississippi growers who opted to plant cotton this year....
A panel of experts will bring cotton producers up to date on the latest cotton fundamentals and provide a cotton price outlook at the July 24 Cotton Roundtable in New York City....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Lists, we editors are told at seminars by magazine experts, are the thing. ...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Recently named LSU AgCenter state weed specialist, Bill Williams has stepped into a “common theme” of harder-to-control weeds, “whether in corn, cotton, soybeans, whatever. ...
From the Arkansas Extension Service
Powerful thunderstorms that moved across Arkansas this week were a mixed blessing, according to county extension agents for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
Mike Geske of Matthews, Mo., has been elected to the board of directors of the National Corn Growers Association. Geske was among five board members elected by delegates from state corn associations and checkoff organizations attending the July Corn Congress in Washington....
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....
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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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