Marvin Lehrer, USA Rice Federation senior adviser on Cuba, is in Havana this week to discuss opportunities for U.S. rice exports to Cuba with ALIMPORT, Cuba’s food-buying agency....
The National Cotton Council has scheduled dates and locations for the 2009 Producer Information Exchange (P.I.E.) program....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Almost 40 years after the Arab oil embargo that nearly brought this country to a standstill, and following a week in which prices at the gas pump surged 20 cents or more despite a world petroleum glut, it appears steps are finally being taken to loosen the stranglehold of foreign suppliers....
By Patti Drapala
MSU Ag Communications
Mississippi farmers finished planting their estimated 630,000 acres of corn on time, but the continuing effects of rain, standing water and cool soil temperatures have slowed the crop’s development in many areas of the state....
The newly-created White House Food Safety Working Group has launched a Web site to provide information about the group’s activities and progress....
Call them fish detectives. Using high-tech equipment, staff and students at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff examine fish to make sure they’re not carrying any significant viruses or unwanted hitchhikers....
Mississippi State University Extension Service, in partnership with Delta Rice Services, is announcing a seminar on stored grain management and safety training to be held June 12 at the Community House and Delta Rice Services in Webb, Miss....
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....
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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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