Lundberg Family Farms of California has received the 2009 “Agricultural Stewardship Award,” recognizing the company’s “excellence in conserving, maintaining and improving our natural resources and environment by using innovative and progressive business practices.”...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The first successful attempt to drill for oil in the U.S. almost didn’t happen. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With its crops and management approach, south Louisiana certainly adds diversity to Mid-South agriculture. ...
By Rick Tolman
Chief Executive Officer
National Corn Growers Association
The definition of “sustainability” has become one of the most widely discussed topics in agriculture — and with consumers, too — during the past several years....
Agricenter International has named Bruce Kirksey as the farm’s new research director, replacing Jeff Ellis. ...
By Ray Nabors
Contributing Writer
June: Week One — All commodity prices remain sensitive to stock market volatility. Grain, oilseed and fiber pricing reflect economic news....
The USA Rice Federation is sponsoring a scholarship contest for high school juniors and seniors from the rice-growing states of Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas....
For the eighth consecutive year, Delta Council will recognize high school graduates in the Mississippi Delta at Delta Council’s annual meeting, Friday, June 12, at the Bologna Performing Arts Center....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Foreign textile mills prefer cotton bales wrapped in cotton bagging, while domestic mills prefer theirs secured with PE (polyethylene) film, according to surveys conducted in 2008 with the help of the National Cotton Council, Cotton Council International and the National Council of Textile Organizations....
By Patti Drapala
MSU Ag Communications
An unusually wet May is causing some Mississippi farmers to plant rice late, but the crop still has time to develop into a good one for the Delta....
By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
Rice growers heard advice from a range of LSU AgCenter experts during the recent southwest rice field. ...
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Soybean rust is active on kudzu in Alabama and Louisiana, but the disease has not made it to Mississippi, although rains are creating ideal conditions for its development....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
He was the rock star of corn....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Despite the cutbacks in many federal and state agriculture programs, a number of incentive and cost-share programs are still available to farmers and other landowners for planting trees....
By Patti Drapala
MSU Ag Communications
Some scientists researching invasive water plants look at the direct effects of these plants and others assess different control methods....
The LSU AgCenter Pecan Research-Extension Station in Shreveport, La., will not be affected by the alignment of Interstate 69 in southern Caddo Parish after all, according to the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD)....
Rabobank has purchased a $354 million portfolio of agricultural loans from the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac)....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Last fall’s reports of the near-collapse of the banking system notwithstanding, the nation’s farm banks increased their lending to farmers in 2008, according to the ABA Center for Agricultural & Rural Banking’s Farm Bank Performance Report....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As he works with northeast Arkansas growers and their waterlogged crops, Roger Gipson is being asked many questions about lost yield potential. ...
The LSU AgCenter’s Red River Research Station will hold a field day June 18 at the station in Bossier City, La. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., with the program beginning at 9 a.m....
From the Agricultural Research Service, USDA
When the Russian wheat aphid spread to the United States in 1986, all of the country’s commercial wheat was susceptible to it....
By Tom Merrill
LSU AgCenter
Are you ready for a hurricane? LSU AgCenter housing specialist Claudette Reichel offers a 20-question quiz to help you determine just how prepared you are....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
About the time former presidential hopeful Al Gore was picking up his Nobel Peace Prize for scaring the bejeebers out of people about global warming, he was being criticized in Tennessee for the huge amounts of energy being consumed by his mansion in the exclusive Belle Meade subdivision of Nashville....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
To say this is a “throw the book out” year in rice weed control is an understatement....
An ongoing effort asking scientists from around the world to pledge their support for biodiesel is getting quick results....
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Nov 20, 2009 11:01 AM
The World Trade Organization has authorized Brazil to seek retaliation against the United States for it support of two U.S. commodity programs....
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University of Missouri Extension is offering an eight-week online course on managing farm machinery using precision agriculture, Jan. 12 through March 4....
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Weather problems are now thought to be factored into market prices. ...
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Mississippi State University agricultural economists calculate Mississippi farmers are suffering an estimated $485 million value loss in 2009. ...
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If the U.S. is to reach the government-mandated target of producing 36 billion gallons of biofuels annually by 2022, “We will need to change the way we do business,” says a USDA official....
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