Rice hulls/straw to be feedstock for ethanol facility 

Jun 16, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

If Pan Gen Global’s plans are carried out, Arkansas rice straw and hulls will soon be the feedstock for ethanol and silica sodium oxide. ...

Economist: Grain markets ‘simply ominous’ 

Jun 16, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The squeeze on world grain stocks will continue at least for several years. ...

WTO’s Lamy laments ‘bad’ farm bill 

Jun 16, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Pascal Lamy, the World Trade Organization director-general, says the U.S. Congress passed a bad farm bill, one that sends the wrong “signal.” ...

Loan rates set for grains and oilseeds, first in new farm bill 

Jun 13, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The ink isn’t dry on the final version of the 2008 farm bill (President Bush was expected to veto the full bill passed by the Senate June 4 within a few days, and the House and Senate were expected to vote to override once again.)...

U.S. honeybees remain in peril 

Jun 13, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

In 2006, after honeybees abandoned hives in massive numbers, beekeepers began sounding an alarm that gained volume in 2007 when the mass exodus and die-off of bees picked up speed. ...

Plant Board worked quickly on Newpath shortage 

Jun 13, 2008,

By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

To say that a shortage of Newpath early into the rice growing season was a frustrating thing for a lot of people would be a gross understatement. ...

USA Rice Federation farm bill meetings in Louisiana 

Jun 13, 2008

USA Rice Federation will provide industry members with an overview and explanation of key provisions of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 at three educational meetings scheduled June 18 and 19 in south Louisiana....

Regional plan to jump-start Delta’s bioeconomy 

Jun 13, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The possibility that the last drop of petroleum fuel will combust into oblivion in as few as 75 years worries Randy Powell....

Congressmen ask for probe of fertilizer price hikes 

Jun 12, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

One of the primary authors of the 2008 farm bill is turning his attention to trying to find out why fertilizer prices have gone into the stratosphere in recent months....

Guest Commentary: Confessions of a risk manager 

Jun 12, 2008,

By Steven Scott
Scott & Associates

As a professional marketing advisor with over 30 years of hard-earned marketing experience, I thought I knew something about managing risk....

Hope for crops that cope with adverse weather 

Jun 12, 2008,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

No matter whether climate change is a concern of epic proportion or a gigantic hoax, the reality is that weather influences — drought, cold, heat — are a problem for agriculture every year....

Soybean checkoff builds soy use in construction industry 

Jun 12, 2008

Green construction continues to be a growing trend in the United States. ...

USDA report bullish for beans and corn 

Jun 12, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

USDA is projecting a smaller U.S. corn crop of 11.7 billion bushels, down 390 million from May based on lower expected average yields of 148.9 bushels per acre....

New herbicide options for wheat weed control 

Jun 11, 2008,

By Bob Scott
Extension Weed Specialist
University of Arkansas

With our wheat crop is basically made for the year, now may seem like a strange time to write about wheat weed control. ...

World wheat production to increase 

Jun 11, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

With prospects for a record 2008-09 world wheat crop looming over the market, wheat prices are likely to trend lower in the short-term, barring unforeseen production or harvesting problems, says analyst Jon Marcus, Lakefront Futures, Chicago, Ill....

Biodiesel-making workshop draws crowd 

Jun 11, 2008

More than 200 people who wanted to learn how to make biodiesel in small batches recently packed a meeting room at the LSU AgCenter’s W.A. Callegari Environmental Center in Baton Rouge to attend a workshop and demonstration on how to make biodiesel from used vegetable oil, said Bill Carney, LSU AgCenter environmental educator....

Armyworm outbreaks threaten southwest Missouri crops 

Jun 11, 2008

Farmers in southwestern Missouri should scout for armyworm larvae, a pest that attacks fields en masse, causing extensive damage if not treated. ...

Lofty prices don’t equate to lofty returns 

Jun 11, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

I talk to more and more farmers who admit they sometimes wish the farm bill could somehow just go away. ...

Excuses galore for energy mess 

Jun 10, 2008,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Don’t blame us: That’s the plaint from every quarter as gasoline/diesel prices set new records almost daily....

Research aims at used motor oil containers 

Jun 10, 2008,

By Rick Bogren
LSU AgCenter

As more than 3 billion quart-size, high-density polyethylene motor-oil containers head for U.S. landfills each year, LSU AgCenter researchers are looking for ways to keep them out....

New farm bill provides higher returns for conservation-minded landowners 

Jun 10, 2008,

By Perry Stevens
State Public Affairs Specialist
USDA-NRCS

The 2008 farm bill includes significant changes that offer a higher cost of return to Mid-South farmers and landowners....

LSU’s Coreil named to national farm bill committee 

Jun 10, 2008

Paul Coreil, vice chancellor of the LSU AgCenter and director of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, has been named to the newly created Farm Bill Implementation Assistance Committee....

Potentially devastating wheat rust spreads 

Jun 10, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Since the 1950s, resistance genes bred into wheat varieties have held truly devastating stem rust epidemics in check....

BASF manufactures more Newpath 

Jun 9, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

BASF has announced that it is manufacturing and distributing enough Newpath herbicide to treat 600,000 acres of Clearfield rice beginning this week. ...

Farmers finding lower than expected wheat prices at elevators 

Jun 9, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Mid-South farmers are finding for the second straight year that just because Chicago wheat futures are at record highs doesn’t mean prices at their local grain elevators will be at those levels....

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Fewer cows, more Bt cotton… smaller carbon footprint

Oct 14, 2008 10:37 AM

Reducing the carbon footprint. Environmentalists tell us we should be doing everything we can to lower the amount of greenhouse gases and other pollutants being released into the atmosphere....

Residual feed intake studies improve herd profits

Oct 14, 2008 10:34 AM

Cattle producers attending the recent Beef Day at the University of Missouri South Farm learned new words that may help them improve efficiency and add profits from their herds....

American Agri-Women to meet in San, Antonio

Oct 14, 2008 10:30 AM

The 33rd annual National American Agri-Women’s Convention will be held in San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 5-9, at the historic Menger Hotel near the Alamo....

Monsanto: Acceleron seed treatments provide new performance technology

Oct 14, 2008 10:26 AM

Monsanto Company is launching Acceleron brand seed treatment as part of its seed treatment platform announced earlier this year....

More bearish news for grain markets

Oct 14, 2008 10:16 AM

Economic struggles in the U.S. and world financial markets and a bearish crop report have taken center stage in the grain markets, according to Brian Hoops, market analyst with Midwest Market Solutions, speaking at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange press briefing on USDA’s Oct. 10 crop production report and supply and demand estimates....

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