By Miranda Reiman
Certified Angus Beef LLC
Stop trying to get maximum production. No more topping last year’s average daily gains, enough with the peak efficiencies and quit angling for record marbling scores every time....
The American Trucking Associations’ Agricultural and Food Transporters Conference (AFTC) recently released the “Manager’s Guide to Safe Trucking During Agricultural Planting and Harvest Season.”...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
During a late April hearing of the International Trade Commission, Gary Adams, a National Cotton Council economist, highlighted some of India’s “increasingly trade-distorting activities: increases in internal support prices, new export subsidy programs, and a continuing governmental assistance to the textile industry.”...
The Obama administration’s fiscal 2010 budget proposal will include funds to provide a final settlement for the lawsuit that alleged discrimination against minority farmers in USDA’s farm programs....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
There is a big difference between perception and reality when it comes to crop subsidies around the world....
President Obama plans to nominate Homer Lee Wilkes, state conservationist for Mississippi, to be USDA’s under secretary for natural resources and environment. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The recent announcement that South Korea would accept imported LibertyLink soybeans should help remove farmers’ hesitancy to embrace the technology....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Blanche Lincoln, a two-term senator from Arkansas and key member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, will be the featured speaker at the 74th annual meeting of the Delta Council at Delta State University, June 12....
Declining mill use is expected to cause another increase in world cotton stocks by the end of the 2009-10 marketing year, the International Cotton Advisory Committee says....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
Buoyed by good prices, growers of medium-grain rice scrambled over the winter to find enough seed to plant, according to Chuck Wilson, Arkansas Extension rice specialist....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Studies conducted at the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, Miss., indicate residual herbicides applied in the fall provide the most efficient control of glyphosate-resistant Italian ryegrass....
While farmers wait for dry weather to allow corn planting, heavy rains in the forecast offer little hope of returning to the fields in Missouri anytime soon, said a University of Missouri Extension climatologist....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
This year has started off much like 2008 with frequent rains keeping folks out of the field in many parts of Arkansas. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
House and Senate conferees made no changes in the funding for the 2008 farm bill’s direct payments or export market promotion programs when they agreed on a concurrent budget resolution for fiscal year 2010 Wednesday....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With the latest worldwide health scare — this time not SARS or West Nile virus or avian influenza or mad cow, but swine flu (H1N1) — modern technology has proven its efficiency and curse....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Insecticide seed treatments provided a positive return in Mid-South soybeans nearly 80 percent of the time, according to a six-year study conducted by Extension entomologists Gus Lorenz of the University of Arkansas, Roger Leonard of the LSU AgCenter, Scott Stewart of the University of Tennessee and Angus Catchot of Mississippi State University....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
“And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days ...
By Tobie Blanchard
LSU AgCenter
Louisiana will likely have a large soybean crop this year, according to experts with the LSU AgCenter....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In late April, with corn planting already hindered due to a soggy spring, many Mid-South producers are facing forecasts calling for rain through the first week of May....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
Farmers in Arkansas are ready to begin planting an estimated 520,000 acres of cotton. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
What a difference a year makes — unless you’re a grocery manufacturing company or oil conglomerate CEO. ...
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
The American Soybean Association sent out a news release dated April 2 announcing acceptance by the Korean Food and Drug Administration of both the Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans and Bayer’s LibertyLink soybeans....
From the NCC
The National Cotton Council says India’s cotton subsidies coupled with its failure to notify the World Trade Organization of those subsidy levels is a major impediment to cotton trade....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
John Maguire says the money spent on farm bill programs is, by almost any measure, a good deal for the American people as well as the U.S. economy....
From the USDA
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the appointment of Doug Caruso as administrator of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency....
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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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