Major moth flight moves to cotton, soybeans: Arkansas 

Jul 8, 2008,

By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist

Large numbers of moths that can quickly develop into crop-damaging worms are moving into cotton and soybean fields all across Arkansas’ Delta....

Farmers receiving advance direct payments for 2008  

Jul 8, 2008

Farmers have begun receiving $1.15 billion in direct payments for the 2008 crop year, USDA officials announced. ...

Some fungicides in short supply: Louisiana 

Jul 8, 2008

Many older soybeans in central Louisiana were treated with fungicides following rainfall in late June, according to Roger Carter of Agricultural Management Services, which serves parishes in east central Louisiana. ...

Green bean harvest in central Arkansas 

Jul 8, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

It’s the middle of June and a fleet of green bean harvesting machinery is working central Arkansas fields. ...

$4 gas may be what it takes 

Jul 8, 2008,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Maybe this time around it’ll stick. Perhaps the shock of $4 and who-knows-how-much-higher gasoline and the knife it’s thrusting into the back of the U.S. economy will finally spur the determination and commitment necessary to begin freeing this country from the tyranny of imported oil....

Biofuels, fertilizers, pests and agritourism headline Milan No-Till Field Day 

Jul 8, 2008

If the tradition holds, then thousands of producers, agribusiness representatives, and interested participants are expected to attend the 25th Milan No-Till Crop Production Field Day July 24 at the University of Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center at Milan, Tenn....

2008: ‘sprangletop year’ in many rice fields 

Jul 7, 2008,

By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

This year seems to get tougher as we go. A state-wide rain would sure do wonders. ...

Planting soybeans in July might be profitable in Missouri 

Jul 7, 2008

A soybean crop planted after floodwaters recede in Missouri still has a chance to make a profitable yield....

Arkansas harvesting good tomato crop, prices good 

Jul 7, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Harvest has arrived in south Arkansas’ tomato-growing counties and, so far, it’s shaping up to be a good one....

Farm bill meetings in Arkansas and northeast Louisiana 

Jul 7, 2008

USA Rice Federation staff will provide rice industry members with an overview and explanation of the key provisions of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (the recently enacted 2008 farm bill) at meetings to be held in Arkansas and northeast Louisiana, July 21-23....

What cotton module system should you choose? 

Jul 7, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Choosing between red, green or conventional cotton harvest module systems may simply come down to farm size, how a gin is set up or the personal preference of a farmer, according to an evaluation of module systems presented at Cotton Incorporated’s Engineered Fiber Selection Conference in Memphis....

Farm bill and flooding: economist Daryll Ray 

Jul 3, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

After the first round of producer organization-sponsored farm bill meetings, Mid-South farmers still have plenty of questions about the new legislation....

Long-time Arkansas goat rancher — Jack Black 

Jul 3, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

As Jack Black looks on in the afternoon’s fading light, a flock of guinea fowl fords tall pasture grass pecking at insects and weaving through 30, or so, multi-hued goats. ...

Peanuts appeal to Mississippi growers 

Jul 3, 2008,

By Linda Breazeale
MSU Ag Communications

Strong market prices and the ability to cope with less moisture than most crops have Mississippi’s peanut growers expanding their acreage again this year....

Rice field day in Richland Parish set for July 21 

Jul 3, 2008

The LSU AgCenter’s annual Northeast Louisiana rice field day will be held July 21 at the Elliot Colvin farm and the Rayville Civic Center in Rayville, La....

LSU AgCenter to host more biodiesel workshops July 29-31 

Jul 3, 2008

By popular demand, the LSU AgCenter will host another set of one-day workshops on how to make your own biodiesel. ...

Farm bill: Several provisions delayed until 2009 

Jul 3, 2008

The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue....

Attack of the killer horseflies! And which pesticide for ’gators? 

Jul 3, 2008,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Random musings as we hurtle headlong into stifling, steamy summer:...

ICAC lowers world cotton production forecast 

Jul 3, 2008

The International Cotton Advisory Committee says world cotton production could decline 3 percent to 117 million bales in the 2008-09 marketing year, raising world cotton prices by nearly 10 cents per pound....

Rice meeting, July 18, Cleveland, Miss. 

Jul 3, 2008

Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation’s annual Summer Rice Grower Meeting is scheduled for July 18 at the Bolivar County Extension Service Auditorium in Cleveland, Miss....

USDA’s Keenum nominated to FCA board 

Jul 3, 2008

President Bush has nominated USDA Undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agriculture Mark Keenum to be a Farm Credit Administration board member until May 2014....

Harkin to USDA: Be flexible in disaster decisions 

Jul 2, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Farmers in Iowa and other states affected by flooding should not be “penalized” for having to make decisions dealing with crop losses that could come back to haunt them when USDA finishes writing regulations for the new farm bill....

Soybeans reaching critical stage for fungicide 

Jul 2, 2008,

By Trey Koger
Extension Soybean Specialist
Mississippi State University

With much of Mississippi’s April-planted full-season soybean crop approaching the critical stage for fungicide applications, it’s time to discuss the factors that determine when to apply a fungicide....

Mid-South cotton crop off to excellent start 

Jul 2, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Mid-South producers are reporting good starts to their cotton crops this season, according to USDA’s June 30 crop progress report. ...

New soybean rust hotline available for Missouri farmers 

Jul 2, 2008

Missouri farmers have a new tool to help monitor and manage disease in their soybean fields this growing season....

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Harkin, Lugar introduce ethanol pipeline measure

Jul 24, 2008 10:31 AM

Senators Tom Harkin of Iowa and Richard Lugar of Indiana have introduced legislation aimed at addressing one of the valid criticisms of ethanol production — the lack of an economical way to move the renewable fuel to major markets....

U.S. offers new cap on supports at WTO talks

Jul 24, 2008 10:28 AM

U.S. negotiators this week announced a new offer of a $15 billion cap in the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks on the broadest level of U.S. farm supports called overall trade distorting support or OTDS, according to a report from USA Rice Federation....

Damaging herbicide drift can travel far

Jul 24, 2008 10:22 AM

Every year, Eric Webster receives many calls on Newpath and Roundup drift. “The glyphosate drift is primarily in northeast Louisiana,” said the LSU AgCenter weed scientist at the recent field day at the Rice Research Station in Crowley, La....

What happened to the bollworms?

Jul 24, 2008 10:18 AM

Several weeks ago, traps showed large numbers of bollworm moths in Arkansas — including one in Jefferson County with more than 1,000 moths — but egg and worm numbers haven’t developed in cotton as expected, according to Scott Akin, Extension entomologist with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....

Farm Bureau backs change in trucking regulations

Jul 24, 2008 10:15 AM

A bill that will relieve farmers and ranchers from undue burdens and regulations when they transport their crops and livestock across state lines has the support of the American Farm Bureau Federation....

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