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....
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....
From the USDA
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....
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The World Trade Organization has authorized Brazil to seek retaliation against the United States for it support of two U.S. commodity programs....
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University of Missouri Extension is offering an eight-week online course on managing farm machinery using precision agriculture, Jan. 12 through March 4....
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