By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cary Lightsey, a 56-year-old central Florida cattle rancher who says he’s “living out his dream” of being a cowboy, has been named the 2009 Swisher Sweets Sunbelt Southeastern Farmer of the Year....
Approximately 255 million base acres on about 1.7 million farms were enrolled for 2009 in the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) and in the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program....
From the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry
The USDA has confirmed the presence of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in a Minnesota pig....
Fifty-five grants totaling approximately $49 million for 745 projects to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops, which are defined as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture and nursery crops, including floriculture have been announced by USDA....
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I have written several articles on pigweed control in conventional soybeans....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The chief executive officers of two of the nation’s largest agricultural companies say the world’s farmers must double their production of food between now and 2050 if the world’s population is to avoid widespread famine....
By Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter
The LSU AgCenter has approved the release of two new Clearfield lines for the 2010 rice-growing season, according to Steve Linscombe, LSU AgCenter rice breeder....
Six new inbred maize lines with resistance to aflatoxin contamination have now been registered in the United States by the Agricultural Research Service....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s been said that we Americans are a people with a short attention span: We’re transfixed, sympathetic to, or outraged by whatever is most sensational at the moment....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
As frequent rains have continued into October, so have fears that Mid-South crops — left in wet fields with frustrated growers unable to harvest — are suffering yield losses....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Federal conservation programs are more popular than ever before, members of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research were told during an Oct. 7 hearing on the implementation of the farm bill’s conservation title....
An El Niño in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean is expected to be a dominant climate factor influencing December through February winter weather in the United States, according to the 2009 Winter Outlook released by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center....
From USDA
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack launched the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) with a major speech regarding the role of science and research at USDA....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
If African farmers and the world’s hungry are to climb out of their misery and become more productive citizens, technology will have to pave the way, Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates says....
University of Missouri scientists have played a key role in developing new technology that takes the guesswork out of deciding how much nitrogen to apply to crops. ...
By Bonnie Coblentz, MSU Ag Communications
Inconsistencies in soybean grading last year led the Mississippi's soybean industry to take steps to educate producers and grain elevator staff on how to determine the kind and amount of damage soybeans have....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Weather is driving market prices as cotton, corn and soybean yield estimates and quality potential drops. ...
Innovative uses for forest and forage biomass will be featured at the LSU AgCenter’s Calhoun Research Station field day Oct. 29....
USDA will not issue final 2008 counter-cyclical payments to farmers enrolled in the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program for peanuts, corn, grain sorghum, soybeans and oats because average commodity prices remain above levels that trigger these payments....
Rep. Travis Childers, D-Miss., has urged both USDA and the state of Mississippi to act swiftly in gathering information necessary to provide farmers with much-needed disaster relief....
The unseasonably cool, wet weather much of the Corn Belt experienced this year has led to delays in harvest, the National Corn Growers Association said this week, commenting on new reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that growers are 22 percentage points behind the five-year average for corn acreage harvested at this time....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Extremes of weather throughout the growing and harvest seasons have prompted USDA to lower projections for the 2009 U.S. cotton crop. ...
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Gebisa Ejeta says the world will have to increase its production of food more in the next four decades than it has since the dawn of civilization....
Strong export and crush demand and a tighter-than-expected supply report from the Agriculture Department on Oct. 9 should mean an improving price picture for soybeans, according to Terry Francl, senior economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation....
A University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture weed scientist is asking farmers to do a little research until fields are dry enough to harvest....
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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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