Integrated plant bug control 

May 21, 2009,

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....

ALS/Accase-resistant ryegrass 

May 21, 2009,

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....

Louisiana field day June 17 

May 21, 2009

The LSU AgCenter’s annual Northeast Research Station field day will be held June 17 at the station in St. Joseph, La....

Prepare for hurricane season 

May 21, 2009

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....

AEM/FFA to advance ag careers 

May 21, 2009

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....

Soy diesel needs certainty 

May 21, 2009,

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....

Freeing trade with Cuba 

May 21, 2009,

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....

Cotton Forum slated for July 

May 21, 2009

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....

Specialty crop grants for Mississippi 

May 21, 2009

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....

EPA’s biofuel calculations criticized 

May 21, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Collin Peterson remembers the first ethanol boom in the 1970s....

GMO rejection — ‘fatal rush to judgment’ 

May 21, 2009,

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....

Bt cotton not in trouble in India 

May 21, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Genetic engineering is a tough cover for even a well-worn agricultural journalist like me. ...

Ricestar HT in medium-grain rice 

May 21, 2009,

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....

New leaders for Farm Bureau 

May 21, 2009

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....

Biodiesel producers deride EPA calculations 

May 20, 2009,

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. ...

NAIS benefits, problems  

May 20, 2009,

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....

Checkoff on dairy imports 

May 20, 2009

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....

Rice field tour May 26 

May 20, 2009

The LSU AgCenter has announced its 2009 Southwest Rice Tour will be held May 26....

‘Stay the course’ on sugar 

May 19, 2009,

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. ...

Bear market for beans? 

May 19, 2009,

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....

Concerns about biofuels initiative 

May 19, 2009,

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....

Climate change bill concerns 

May 19, 2009,

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. ...

Weather boosts wheat diseases 

May 19, 2009

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....

Extension cutbacks at Iowa State 

May 19, 2009,

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. ...

EPA: Endosulfan loss minimal to cotton 

May 18, 2009,

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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Arkansas loss near quarter billion dollars

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....

Cotton: a lot on the ground

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....

Rep. Cassidy: rethink conservation efforts

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....

Residuals in LibertyLink program

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. ...

Letter: Mule-headed bunch of farmers

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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