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. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
EPA has also revised certain provisions of the 2006 Re-Registration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the organic arsenical pesticides — which include MSMA....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In the Mid-South, spring weather has been more suited for catfish than cotton, with heavy and frequent rains thwarting every effort to shift planting into high gear....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Arkansas cotton producers “are wearing holes in their shop floors from walking back and forth. We haven’t planted anything for almost a week and a half now,” Extension specialist Tom Barber said this week....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. economy stands to lose $5 billion to $9 billion in sales to its foreign competitors over the next two years if Congress does not take steps to help solve the nation’s ongoing agricultural labor shortage....
The Obama administration’s fiscal year 2010 budget request for aquaculture research that could increase demand for soybean meal in aquafeed, has the support of American Soybean Association officials....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sit back and enjoy the ride. That’s basically the advice marketing experts were giving producers this morning now that cotton futures have risen out of the 40s and 50s and into the low 60-cent range....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
You just received some disturbing news. ...
By H. Scott Stiles
Extension Economist
University of Arkansas
For much of 2007 and 2008, wheat, corn and soybean basis levels in eastern Arkansas were historically weak. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Lower expected U.S. cotton acreage for the coming year may not necessarily result in less cottonseed for dairy feeding....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
FMC Corp. officials said they strongly disagree with and will file objections to EPA’s decision to revoke all U.S. food tolerances for carbofuran, the active ingredient in the company’s Furadan pesticide....
Rayne Pegg, legislative and policy adviser for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, has been appointed as the new administrator of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. corn production for 2009-10 is projected at 12.1 billion bushels, down 11 million bushels from 2008-09 as lower plantings more than offset higher expected yields....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. soybean production is projected at 3.2 billion bushels, up 236 million from 2008-09, according to USDA in its May 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates....
The LSU AgCenter is hosting a two-day comprehensive workshop on how to make biodiesel fuel from used vegetable oil on June 2-3 at the Callegari Environmental Center, Baton Rouge, La....
Rice farmers can get the latest information on new varieties and agronomic practices at the Evangeline Parish Rice Field Day May 19 from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Obama administration has announced a major, concerted push by the USDA, Department of Energy and EPA to support the development and expansion of domestic biofuels....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. and world ending stocks for cotton are expected to shrink in 2009-10, according to USDA’s first assessment of U.S. and world supply and demand for the new marketing year....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. rice production is projected at 224 million hundredweight, 10 percent above 2008-09....
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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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