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This frightening 2009 season 

Nov 2, 2009,

By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Surely, Halloween cannot be as scary as the 2009 Mid-South growing season....

Where’s the economy headed? 

Oct 30, 2009,

By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff

U.S. farmers and consumers who are trying to figure out what the future holds aren’t getting much help from Washington these days. ...

Farmers’ cap/trade costs – EWG 

Oct 30, 2009,

By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff

In early October, the Environmental Working Group released a study titled “Crying Wolf” that focused on what a cap and trade system would mean for farmers’ energy costs....

Markets: open cotton vulnerable 

Oct 30, 2009,

By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network

Open cotton is vulnerable to rain damage. Harvest is only 20 percent complete. ...

Gates helping fight hunger among poorest 

Oct 30, 2009,

By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff

The first thought that runs through your mind when you watch Bill Gates speaking at the World Food Prize’s Norman Borlaug Dialogue is “How strange is this?”...

‘Cautiously optimistic’ for ag 

Oct 30, 2009

Speakers painted a “cautiously optimistic” outlook for U.S. agriculture at Farm Bureau’s mid-October commodity outlook conference, in Albuquerque, N.M. ...

Pigweed: plows and covers  

Oct 29, 2009,

By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff

As reports of herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth continue to spread throughout the Southeast, farmers are turning to hand labor to try to keep the pesky weed at bay. ...

Ignite like Ignite, not glyphosate 

Oct 29, 2009,

By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

I am going to finish this series on Palmer pigweed control in soybeans with several articles on LibertyLink soybeans....

NIFA: future of agricultural research 

Oct 29, 2009,

By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Launched in early October, the new National Institute of Food and Agriculture carries the hopes of many: hope that NIFA will find answers to increasingly daunting questions about feeding the world, hope that agricultural science will attain the status in the United States that it deserves, hope that the institute will streamline funding for agricultural research....

Cashing in on bioeconomy 

Oct 28, 2009,

By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

If a Mid-South bioeconomy grows into a mature industry, you might see more winter crops being grown, a reduction in pastureland, small changes in crop mix during the summer season and quite a number of biorefineries dotting the rural landscape....

Wheat acreage — shrink to ’60s levels? 

Oct 28, 2009,

By Mary Hightower, University of Arkansas

Arkansas farmers are planting winter wheat, though with continued rain, expectations for the crop are iffy, say extension agents and economists for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....

Harvest mired in mud — Arkansas 

Oct 27, 2009,

By Mary Hightower, University of Arkansas

Arkansas growers are finding ways to beat the mud as they struggle to harvest rice, soy, cotton and sorghum and plant winter wheat....

Cap and trade — consider the risks 

Oct 27, 2009,

By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Whether writing for the Wall Street Journal or testifying before congressional committees, LSU economist Joseph Mason isn’t shy with his views regarding climate legislation....

In times like these, watch baseball 

Oct 27, 2009,

By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

In 1903, the Boston Americans came back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first modern World Series to be played in the major leagues....

CRP sign-up awaits environmental report 

Oct 27, 2009,

By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff

With several unsettled issues including extensions and sign-ups, the Conservation Reserve Program was the subject of several questions from the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research in early October....

Changes in market oversight bill 

Oct 27, 2009,

By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Prior to passage of a market oversight bill by the House Agriculture Committee last week, committee counsel Andy Baker outlined the changes between it and an earlier version, HR 977, passed in February....

House bill tightens market oversight 

Oct 26, 2009,

By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Following deals and compromises that ended only shortly before the hearing began, the House Agriculture Committee last week passed HR 3795 — more commonly known as the “derivatives oversight” legislation —by a bipartisan voice vote....

Conservation initiatives funds scrutinized 

Oct 26, 2009,

By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Broad conservation initiatives being undertaken by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) were given extra scrutiny at an Oct. 7 hearing on the implementation of the farm bill’s conservation title....

Resistant pigweeds in Roundup Ready soybeans 

Oct 26, 2009,

By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

I wish every soybean field in Arkansas which had Palmer pigweed as a problem weed could be planted to an alternate crop such as corn or rice or that an alternative weed control technology such as LibertyLink could be used in the system....

Crop insurance can salvage some loss 

Oct 23, 2009,

By Bonnie Coblentz, MSU Ag Communications

Near-constant rains during harvest-time have cost Mississippi farmers an estimated $371 million in losses, and producers with crop insurance may be the only ones able to salvage much more from the fields this year....

Arkansas harvest: pockets of optimism 

Oct 23, 2009,

By Mary Hightower, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture

Near constant rain has caused between 25 percent and 80 percent damage in some Arkansas cotton, rice and soybean fields as growers struggle to harvest what’s left during brief periods of dry weather, according Extension agents, agronomist and economists with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....

Soybean seed quality concerns 

Oct 23, 2009,

By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff

A prolonged, drying sun can’t reach the Mid-South quickly enough for farmers. ...

Behind the curtain: ‘mule-headed farmers’? 

Oct 23, 2009,

By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff

An Associated Press wire story about Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi native Morgan Freeman lending a hand to his business partner who is laying the groundwork to run for governor of Mississippi in 2011, notes:...

Markets: weather, dollar and energy 

Oct 23, 2009,

By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network

There is some speculation that some crop acres in the United States may not get harvested until next year. ...

USDA appropriations signed by Obama 

Oct 23, 2009,

By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff

President Obama has signed legislation providing fiscal 2010 appropriations — $121 billion — for the USDA, the Department of Health and Human Services, and other agencies....

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