By Elton Robinson
An early start means an early finish for soybean producers Don and Jimbo Davis, Tippo, Miss. That is why every one of their 3,000 soybean acres this year will be planted in Group 4s, ranging in maturity from 4.4 to 4.9....
By Elton Robinson
When St. Joseph, La., cotton producers Donnie and Darrell Vandeven converted their cotton, corn and soybean operation from an 8-row to a 12-row configuration a couple of years ago, they did not have to sell their fleet of 150-horsepower tractors....
By Forrest Laws
Saxby Chambliss says the agricultural guest worker program language reported out by the Senate Judiciary Committee March 27 will “punish” farmers who have been abiding by the law and utilizing the H-2A program, the current, temporary guest worker program....
By Forrest Laws
Mark W. Leonard sounds like a genuinely nice guy. Last year, he brought a cotton farmer from Mali in West Africa to church gatherings near his farm in Holstein, Iowa, to discuss U.S. farm subsidies. But being a nice guy doesn’t mean that Leonard, who, according to a Wall Street Journal article, is a Republican candidate for agriculture secretary in Iowa, cannot also be terribly wrong....
By David Bennett
For proponents of an Arkansas Plant Board-generated seed variety list, the lead-up to the Plant Board’s March 9 meeting was filled with both hope and apprehension. But even though the outcome of the board vote was in doubt, the resounding 8-4 vote against public comment on the list stung....
By Lamar James
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas land prices are increasing, a fact that has significance for row crop farmers and cattle producers. The USDA’s latest Arkansas farm real estate values, a measure of the value of all land and buildings on farms, averaged $1,820 an acre, up 10.3 percent from the previous year....
By Forrest Laws
Last fall’s record and near-record soybean and corn crops haven’t done much for commodity prices, but they may have helped some Midwest farmers get a different slant on the payment limit issue....
Monsanto has announced a plan to deter the unauthorized planting of Bollgard cotton in Brazil. Working with cotton gins, Monsanto will collect an indemnity for cotton that tests positive for the Bollgard insect-resistant cotton trait, beginning with the 2006 cotton harvest....
Farmers who plant Roundup Ready Flex or Roundup Ready Flex/Bollgard II stacked gene varieties in 2006 will not have to keep that cotton separate from Roundup Ready or Roundup Ready/Bollgard or conventional varieties....
By Forrest Laws
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The U.S. cotton industry could produce 600,000 fewer tons of cottonseed in 2006 than in 2005 even though cotton farmers are expected to plant nearly 300,000 more acres of cotton this spring....
By David Bennett
STUTTGART, Ark. -- As the cost of oil continues to rise in both price and strife, domestically produced bio-diesel looks better and better....
By Forrrest Laws
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- If farmers had any doubts about the importance of government payments to their ability to survive higher fuel and fertilizer prices this year, all they have to do is look at Chuck Danehower’s numbers....
By David Bennett
Over the last few years, the Missouri Bootheel has made a steady move to more rice acreage. For Brian Ottis, this isn’t a surprise....
By Elton Robinson
High domestic cotton prices in China are likely to result in an increase in planted area in 2006-07, but the country’s textile mills are still going to import a lot of cotton this year, according to analysts speaking at the Ag Market Network’s March 14, teleconference....
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Twelve Mid-South gins scored a perfect 100 evaluation in the Southern Cotton Ginners Association safety program for 2005. “All these gins have outstanding safety programs, with a constant emphasis on making everyone aware of the need to put safety first,” said Larry Davis, safety director for the association....
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Agricultural aviation pilots can calibrate their equipment and update their knowledge at a series of three, four-day workshops, or fly-ins, in April at West Helena, McGehee and Walnut Ridge, Ark....
By David Bennett
Asked for a 2006 Louisiana rice acreage projection, Steve Linscombe is reluctant to provide hard numbers. “We’ve got all kinds of things going on – difficulties with cash-flow, difficulties with bank loans, the uncertainty about much of the land inundated with the Hurricane Rita storm surge, and other things.”...
By Elton Robinson
The lack of strength in cotton prices in early March shows how the behavior of a big player, in this case China, can affect U.S. markets, even when the fundamentals indicate higher prices....
Finding ways to add value to a generic commodity like cottonseed may require thinking outside the box. But a Centre, Ala., company has taken it a step further: All the way to the ground....
By Forrest Laws
U.S. producers appear to have dodged a bullet on the 2006 marketing loan rates for long grain and medium/short grain rice thanks to some deft footwork by representatives of the two rice industry organizations....
By Forrest Laws
In a move that is becoming increasingly common in Washington, the Senate Budget Committee largely ignored the Bush administration’s spending reduction proposals for agriculture when it approved the committee’s fiscal 2007 budget resolution....
By Forrest Laws
William B. Dunavant Jr. was standing in the media room at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show last March, waiting for reporters to ask him questions about his latest predictions on the cotton market....
By Bruce Schultz
Will the South American rice leaf miner be affected by salt water pushed ashore by Hurricane Rita? LSU AgCenter entomologist Boris Castro said it’s possible the rice pest’s population could have been weakened by the high salinity, but there’s no way of knowing now because the insect has only been known to be in the country the past couple of growing seasons....
More than 500 American Society of Agronomy Certified Crop Advisers (CCA) from 37 states and Canada have completed an accredited continuing education (CEU) course offered online at the (Southeast Farm Press, Southwest Farm Press, Delta Farm Press) Web site and the Farm Press University Web site (www.farmpressuniversity.com)....
By Andrew Bell
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Collaboration will remain a crucial part of the path to independent energy usage and lowered fuel costs, says an official with the USDA....
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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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