Responding to President Obama’s directive to expedite and increase the production of biofuels, USDA met its 30-day deadline to help produce more energy from homegrown, renewable sources, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced this week....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Millions of viewers saw Brazilian race car driver Helio Castroneves cross the finish line first at the Indianapolis 500 a couple of weeks ago....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Robert Wisner says he’s never seen the kind of drop that occurred in grain production in South America this spring. ...
Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., is the new chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Rural Revitalization, Conservation, Forestry, and Credit....
USDA will provide nearly $42.3 million in additional funding to 14 states to improve water quality, increase water supply, decrease soil erosion, and improve fish and wildlife habitat while creating jobs in rural communities as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009....
From the Missouri Rural Crisis Center
Due to producer and consumer opposition to the National Animal Identification System, USDA will be holding a listening session on NAIS at the Truman Hotel and Conference Center in Jefferson City, Mo., Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The ailing economy hasn’t only clobbered housing, banking, and the automotive sectors — a lot of agricultural Extension, research, and education programs face sharp cutbacks in the proposed fiscal 2010 federal budget and from major declines in tax revenues at the state level....
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Rain delays and changes in planting decisions are forcing a later than ideal start for Mississippi’s soybeans....
By Rick Bogren
LSU AgCenter
Asian soybean rust has been found in a soybean sentinel plot maintained by agricultural consultant Blaine Viator in St. Martin Parish near Coteau, La., according to LSU AgCenter plant pathologist Clayton Hollier....
By Ray Nabors
Contributing Writer
June: Week Two —Fear of inflation is driving investor dollars into commodity markets. ...
There will be a special presentation on the outlook of the 2011 Mississippi elections by two noted political commentators — Mississippi political author Jere Nash and Sid Salter of The Clarion Ledger — before the 74th Delta Council Annual Meeting June 12 at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
After last year’s rains, floods and early-season problems, Roger Gipson didn’t think “we’d face anything on that scale again. ...
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I have looked at a lot of fields lately where I have almost been afraid to recommend what I really thought it was going require to clean it up due to the cost. ...
A review of new sugarcane varieties and field tours on weed control, insect management and disease management will be featured at the annual sugarcane field day July 15 at the LSU AgCenter’s Sugar Research Station in St. Gabriel, according to Kenneth Gravois, resident coordinator at the station....
EPA has issued a Section 3 registration for Credit Xtreme herbicide, a new high-load glyphosate formulation, according to Nufarm Americas, Inc....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As the Mid-South leaves a wet spring and heads into summer with an abundance of late-planted soybeans, what’s going on with Asian soybean rust?...
From USA Rice Federation
Fifty farm, forestry, conservation, and environmental associations this week wrote letters to House and Senate agriculture appropriations subcommittee leaders requesting them to fully fund the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (farm bill) conservation programs at the levels Congress mandated in the 2008 statute and to increase conservation technical assistance funding....
The Cotton Museum in downtown Memphis, Tenn., will launch a new Front Street mp3 walking tour Saturday, June 6, made possible through the History Channel’s Save Our History Grant, with a day of guided walking tours and presentations by local history experts....
Lundberg Family Farms of California has received the 2009 “Agricultural Stewardship Award,” recognizing the company’s “excellence in conserving, maintaining and improving our natural resources and environment by using innovative and progressive business practices.”...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The first successful attempt to drill for oil in the U.S. almost didn’t happen. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With its crops and management approach, south Louisiana certainly adds diversity to Mid-South agriculture. ...
By Rick Tolman
Chief Executive Officer
National Corn Growers Association
The definition of “sustainability” has become one of the most widely discussed topics in agriculture — and with consumers, too — during the past several years....
Agricenter International has named Bruce Kirksey as the farm’s new research director, replacing Jeff Ellis. ...
By Ray Nabors
Contributing Writer
June: Week One — All commodity prices remain sensitive to stock market volatility. Grain, oilseed and fiber pricing reflect economic news....
The USA Rice Federation is sponsoring a scholarship contest for high school juniors and seniors from the rice-growing states of Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas....
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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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