By Hembree Brandon
Are we having fun yet? Playing the “What’s the price of gas now?” game has become an almost universal exercise these days, as people share horror stories of the latest outrage at the pump....
By Forrest Laws
Where’s the Chinese equivalent of Dukes Wooters when you need him? No one mentioned the man generally credited with making Cotton Incorporated what it is when the American Cotton Producers and The Cotton Foundation met in New Orleans, but Wooters’ legacy clearly was on some of the speakers’ minds....
A free, nationally accredited continuing education unit for American Society of Agronomy (ASA) licensed Certified Crop Advisers (CCA) has been launched by Delta Farm Press....
By Hembree Brandon
When Tom Dorr finished high school, he went away to college, and after earning his degree, returned to the family farm in the heartland of rural America. He went on to run the farm and other businesses, was active in state and national commodity organizations, was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and then was named by President Bush to the post of Under Secretary for Rural Development at USDA....
By Forrest Laws
As much as the cotton industry would like to keep Step 2 through the end of the current farm bill, that is looking less and less likely to happen, the president of the National Cotton Council, Mark Lange, says....
By Forrest Laws
John Pucheu may have come off a little better in the latest Wall Street Journal article on the U.S. cotton program and African farmers. But it’s not a distinction the California producer relishes....
By Andrew Bell
Delta farmers who concentrated on irrigating corn crops this growing season should reap the benefits in yields, according to Erick Larson, Extension agent with Mississippi State University....
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Something for everyone. That familiar thought applies to the lineup of stops scheduled for the 2005 Missouri Beef Tour on Aug. 27, according to Rex Ricketts, coordinator of the University of Missouri Commercial Agriculture program, sponsor of the annual tour....
By David Bennett
The growing season’s hot, dry weather means there’s only a smattering of foliar diseases in Arkansas’ rice crop. There is one exception, though: sheath blight.
“Sheath blight doesn’t care much about the weather,” said Rick Cartwright, Arkansas Extension plant pathologist...
By David Bennett
Unlike the bulk of Missouri, the Bootheel hasn’t suffered terribly from drought. Irrigated acreage and rains brought by Hurricane Dennis have allowed mostly healthy, if unspectacular, crops....
By Elton Robinson
It’s still too early to say for sure, but it looks like dry weather has had a significant impact on U.S. corn and soybean production. In its August 12 crop production report, USDA projected lower average yields than last month for both crops. Many in the business think the estimates still have room to decline....
By David Bennett
For those hoping Asian soybean rust had petered out, the week of Aug. 15 wasn’t a good one. ...
By Forrest Laws
Quick! How many cotton varieties can you name that were among the most frequently planted in 1995? Here’s a clue — most of them only had two or three numbers, and they didn’t have the letters B or R in their names....
By David Bennett
Richard Bell, former long-time Riceland president and chief executive officer, will be the first to lead the new Arkansas Department of Agriculture....
By Bobby Coats
The U.S. rice producers, processors, marketers and industry leadership continue to focus on meeting the challenges and embracing the opportunities existing in the global marketplace. ...
By Elton Robinson
Cotton prices are hovering around the loan rate and cost of production is going up like a skyrocket. Yet Gregg Garner remains bullish on farming cotton in Craighead County, Ark....
By Forrest Laws
If you’ve ever wondered why Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley and other Midwest senators are such ardent supporters of stricter payment limits, the results of a new W.K. Kellogg Foundation study may enlighten you....
By Elton Robinson
The Mid-South cotton crop threw off a good bit of fruit in late July and early August as the region alternately battled hot temperatures and cloudy weather. Even so, the experts say a better than average crop is still possible, although it’s shaping up to be a budget buster for cash-strapped cotton producers....
By Hembree Brandon
BILOXI, Miss. -- In a perfect world, says Randy Dismuke, a cotton variety would satisfy everyone’s demands — growers, ginners, oil mills, textile spinners, and other downstream users....
By Hembree Brandon
Cotton growers increasingly face a dilemma, says Ben Lamensdorf: While the cotton they grow may be perfectly acceptable for U.S. mills, overseas buyers may reject it....
By Forrest Laws
Gus Lorenz was looking for an insecticide to help Arkansas farmers fight grape colaspis (lespedeza worms), a pest that feeds primarily on lespedeza and soybeans, but can also chew on rice, when he ran across a new insecticide seed treatment....
By David Bennett
“Many of us said with the selection pressure we were putting on pigweed, this would happen,” said Bob Hayes, University of Tennessee weed scientist. “For the amount of pressure, this announcement was right on schedule. I hope this opens a bunch of eyes and shows how important a diversified weed control program can be....
By David Bennett
South Carolina has been confirmed as the latest stop for Asian soybean rust. As the season has progressed, soybean producers in the state watched the disease creep through neighboring Georgia and wondered when it would leap the border. ...
By Hembree Brandon
The Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement Free Trade Agreement, which squeaked through the House on a 217-215 vote and was signed into law Aug. 3, is “essential to preserving a viable U.S. cotton and textile industry,” a National Cotton Council official said at the summer conference of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association....
By Andrew Bell
After helping to nurture new varieties for 2 million cotton acres in Texas for 30 years, cotton breeder Peggy Thaxton liked the idea of working in a program that covered one-third that size....
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Jul 6, 2009 10:04 AM
Overview: Hog herds are shrinking, reducing demand for feed grains. Increasing stockpiles of grain and oilseeds are becoming a market concern....
Jul 6, 2009 10:01 AM
More than 10 years ago, when Farm Press first approached Marshall Lamb about helping to establish a peanut awards program honoring production efficiency, he was “intrigued” by the possibility....
Jul 6, 2009 9:58 AM
This past year was probably the most interesting year growers have seen in the history of peanut production, says Marshall Lamb, research director for the National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Ga., and advisor for the Farm Press Peanut Profitability Awards....
Jul 6, 2009 9:54 AM
Without fail, when we write about alternative energy for vehicles — whether it be ethanol, hydrogen, electric, natural gas, whatever — we get e-mails (1) congratulating us on our insight and astuteness and predicting that oil’s ready for the scrap heap of history, or (2) telling us that, however distasteful, we’re going to be shackled to imported oil for a long time to come....
Jul 1, 2009 1:06 PM
The world’s climate is getting warmer, and that could have a profound impact on U.S. agriculture, says Jerry Hatfield, supervisory plant physiologist with USDA’s National Soil Tilth Research Laboratory at Iowa State University....
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This course covers a wide range of options to effectively control weeds in cotton and reduce the risk of weed resistance management. It is accredited for hours/units for licensed/accredited applicators in 7 U.S. Cotton Belt states (Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina an d Tennessee. CCA credit is pending).
Keeping crop protection chemicals on the crop for which they are intended has been a cornerstone of farming not only to protect neighboring crops, but to not waste money allowing products to drift off the intended target. This accredited online continuing education course covers the critical elements of spray drift management.
