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 have begun receiving $1.15 billion in direct payments for the 2008 crop year, USDA officials announced. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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....
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....
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. ...
A soybean crop planted after floodwaters recede in Missouri still has a chance to make a profitable yield....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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. ...
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....
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....
By popular demand, the LSU AgCenter will host another set of one-day workshops on how to make your own biodiesel. ...
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....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Random musings as we hurtle headlong into stifling, steamy summer:...
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....
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....
President Bush has nominated USDA Undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agriculture Mark Keenum to be a Farm Credit Administration board member until May 2014....
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....
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....
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. ...
Missouri farmers have a new tool to help monitor and manage disease in their soybean fields this growing season....
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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....
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....
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....
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....
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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