By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
An integrated approach that relies on many different tactics in addition to chemical insecticides is the best way to effectively and economically manage tarnished plant bugs in the Mid-South, according to studies by Mid-South entomologists....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As the Mid-South wheat crop turns golden and heads toward harvest, growers should be on the lookout for another problem weed....
The LSU AgCenter’s annual Northeast Research Station field day will be held June 17 at the station in St. Joseph, La....
The LSU AgCenter will open its Louisiana House Home and Landscape Resource Center June 13 for a daylong series of educational programs designed to help families prepare for the upcoming hurricane season....
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the National FFA Organization will work together to promote awareness of the importance of agricultural education and agricultural career opportunities....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
American Soybean Association leaders say that if federal officials wanted to damage the biodiesel industry they couldn’t do a much better job of it than they are now, presumably unintentionally....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and 15 other senators are trying once again to break the stranglehold of Florida politics on agricultural trade with Cuba by passing legislation that would loosen the decades-old U.S. embargo....
The Cotton Forum could provide cotton producers with both a timely getaway from mid-season bugs and heat this season and get them up to speed on the latest cotton fundamentals and marketing opportunities....
Mississippi’s Department of Agriculture and Commerce has been awarded a $160,000 base grant from USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops grown in Mississippi....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Collin Peterson remembers the first ethanol boom in the 1970s....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In all the controversy surrounding genetically modified crops in recent years, perhaps no segment has been more vocal in opposition than the organic foods industry....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Genetic engineering is a tough cover for even a well-worn agricultural journalist like me. ...
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
Earlier, I wrote about the wet weather, hoping that by the time you read the article it would be dry and you would wonder what rock I had been under....
The American Farm Bureau Federation has selected a group of 10 young agricultural leaders, including one from Tennessee, to participate in the fifth class of the Partners in Agricultural Leadership honors program....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In early May, President Obama instructed the USDA, Department of Energy and EPA to form a working group to support the development and expansion of domestic biofuels. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As critics and proponents continue to clash over the possibility of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) becoming mandatory, the USDA has set up “listening sessions” in an attempt to hear all sides, allay fears and combat misperceptions about the program....
USDA has announced a proposed rule for applying the dairy promotion checkoff to imported dairy products, a development many years in the making that has drawn the praise of the National Milk Producers Federation....
The LSU AgCenter has announced its 2009 Southwest Rice Tour will be held May 26....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s food manufacturers are not in danger of running out of sugar despite their claims to the contrary, the American Sugar Alliance said in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The biggest move of the year could be a bear market in new crop soybeans, according to market analyst Richard Brock, Brock and Associates, speaking at Web cast following USDA’s May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
There has been plenty of commodity group support for President Obama’s recent directive to the USDA, the EPA and the Department of Energy to pick up the biofuels development pace (see Obama's biofuel initiative). However, praise hasn’t been total: pointed questions — especially from soybean- and corn-based fuel advocates — began almost immediately....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Corn growers want to see a mechanism in which they can sell carbon credits on a regulated market to help offset rising production costs from newly introduced climate change legislation, the president of the National Corn Growers Association says. ...
Weeks of wet weather have increased the chances that wheat disease will affect yield, plant pathologists with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture said Monday....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s oldest state Extension Service is drastically scaling back the number of county agents who are on the front lines of providing agricultural information to producers. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In another development, EPA has updated its benefits assessments of endosulfan for potato, cotton, apples, tomatoes, cucumber, melons, pumpkin and squash and said it finds that the loss of the pesticide will be minimal to cotton. ...
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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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