Agricultural weather is about as easy to predict as how much U.S. cotton China will import this season, but there are identifiable trends for both which could help the decision-making process for farmers....
The Obama administration has begun naming individuals to serve as state executive directors for the Farm Service Agency at the USDA....
The USA Rice Millers’ Association has announced that Bobby Hanks, CEO, Louisiana Rice Mill, and Mark Denman, VP sales, RiceTec Inc., were elected the new chairman and vice chairman respectively during the RMA Convention held recently in Amelia Island, Fla....
By Bob Curtis, Associate Director, Agricultural Affairs, Almond Board of California
Minimizing the potential for aflatoxins in almonds is an industrywide effort, beginning in the orchard by managing navel orangeworm, which is associated with the Aspergillus fungus and aflatoxin. ...
By Rep. Marion Berry
As a lifelong farmer, I’ve spent decades working together with my friends and neighbors on the problems we face throughout the agricultural community. ...
Four soybean grading clinics will be held this summer to provide hands-on training and education for elevator inspectors on the grading process for Mississippi soybeans. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. corn and soybean crops grew larger, while rice production shrank from last month, according to USDA’s July 10 Crop Production Report and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The new roster of chairmen and members announced by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and ranking member Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., for its subcommittees today contains some old faces and some new....
By Robert Coats, Brad Watkins and Jeffrey Hignight*
ign-up for FSA’s new optional Counter-Cyclical program, the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE), program ends Aug. 14....
By Ray Nabors, Contributing Writer
Soybean export sales of 1.25 million tons exceeded market expectations by 25 percent. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
According to WikiAnswers.com, the longest human burp ever recorded lasted a bawdy 45 seconds and was witnessed by at least one person, who probably was ready to leave the room at the 5-second mark. ...
Southeast Missouri farmers and agricultural advisors are invited to a field day Friday, July 24, to see the results of tools and techniques that may help save and even make them money....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has promoted Jonathan Coppess to be administrator of USDA’s Farm Service Agency after Doug Caruso resigned from the post, citing philosophical differences with the Obama administration....
By Bonnie Coblentz, MSU Ag Communications
Fewer cotton acres in Mississippi mean less demand for cotton ginning, and whole communities in the Mississippi Delta are feeling the impact of the loss of their livelihood....
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
At this point in the season, things continue to get more complicated. ...
Mississippi State University research and Extension experts will provide information and demonstrations about agronomic research activities July 14 when the Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Branch Experiment Station hosts its annual Research and Demonstration Tour....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The writing and passage of the 2008 farm bill was hardly a smooth ride. ...
Details of the $44.5 million Louisiana Farm and Agribusiness Recovery Grant and Loan Program were unveiled at the recent annual Farm Bureau convention in New Orleans....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Earlier this year, more than 80 growers from Mississippi’s three major peanut-growing areas gathered in Hattiesburg, Miss., for the second annual Mississippi Peanut Growers Association meeting and short course....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
One of the biggest benefits to growing peanuts in Mississippi has been the relative lack of disease pressure compared to other more established growing regions of the Southeast....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Noting that other countries are showing no signs of reducing their export subsidies, USDA has announced the initial round of allocations under the Dairy Export Incentives Program for the period July 1 through June 30, 2010....
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....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Weldon Shook has always wanted to farm. He grew up on a farm near Seagraves, Texas, and told his dad early on that he wanted to pursue that career....
By Roy Roberson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Producing 5,700 pounds of peanuts per acre is just part of the success story of Suffolk, Va., farmer John Crumpler — the 2009 Peanut Profitability Award winner for the Upper Southeast....
Corn farmers have until Friday, July 10, for early entries in the National Corn Growers Association’s National Corn Yield Contest....
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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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