By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
Rice farmers are looking forward to the 2008 growing season as prices continue to rise, but the uncertainty of a pending farm bill remains....
USDA will hold its first BioPreferred Biobased Product Showcase and Training in conjunction with the 2008 General Services Administration Expo, April 21-24, 2008, in Anaheim, Calif....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin and ranking member Saxby Chambliss announced 11 senators — six Democrats and five Republicans — will serve on the House-Senate farm bill conference committee....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The clock is ticking, says Sen. Tom Harkin, and the Bush administration needs to show a little more flexibility if it wants farmers to have a new farm bill by the time the extension of the current law expires on March 15....
Carl Morrison III of Earle, Ark., and Wayne Gairhan of Trumann, Ark., were honored for their years of service to the Arkansas rice industry during the Arkansas Rice Council/Arkansas Rice Producers’ Group annual meeting in Brinkley, Ark....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
While Asian soybean rust hasn’t become the monster some feared, the specter of an ASR epidemic still looms over the United States. So far, the only thing to combat the disease has been fungicides....
Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and newly confirmed Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer will address the National Cotton Council’s (NCC) 70th annual meeting, set for Feb. 7-11 at The Peabody Hotel, site of the NCC’s organizational meeting in November 1938....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The International Cotton Advisory Committee is projecting that world ending stocks will decline to 52.5 million bales by the close of the current marketing year (July 31) as world consumption continues to outpace production....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The bollworm/budworm complex retained its position as the nation’s No. 1 pest in cotton production in 2007, reducing yields by 0.91 percent, a slight increase over 2006, according to the publication, “Cotton Loss Estimates — 2007,” presented at the 2008 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Nashville by Michael Williams, entomologist, Mississippi State University....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Rodney Dangerfield got more respect than the U.S. cotton industry has received over the past year from so-called friend and foe....
By David Y. Lanclos
LSU AgCenter Specialist
The 2008 Louisiana soybean season is still a couple of months away from getting under way, but the conversation statewide is that the soybean seed supply and variety background situation is still uncertain....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
I first met Lenny Hensgens on a very cold, fall morning in Lafayette, La., in the early-1990s. He rapped gently on my hotel door at 6 a.m. He was a big, friendly fellow and possessed a bone-crunching handshake that I was still feeling an hour later....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The battle lines are already drawn in Mid-South cotton this coming season. Cotton acreage will fight other crops for acres. Producers will search for the Flex variety that fits, worry about glyphosate resistance and battle plant bugs and spider mites....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
Soybean prices are soaring to record levels, and farmers are excited about the prospects for 2008. Unfortunately, a shortage of seed may dampen their enthusiasm....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Neither the House nor the Senate farm bill proposal veers far away from current policy, but each includes payment limitations and each faces the likelihood of a presidential veto....
By Fred Miller
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Per capita wine consumption in the United States is overtaking that of Europe, spurring interest in new winery startups in Arkansas and neighboring states, said Justin Morris, food scientist for the University of Arkansas System’s statewide Division of Agriculture....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Of the many decisions he makes every year when growing soybeans, J.K. Bordelon says variety choice ranks at the top. This year, he’s also worried with the tight soybean seed supply....
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service said a continuance referendum of the 1991 amendments to the Cotton Research and Promotion Order is not needed based on the number of grower and importer signatures received from Sept. 3 through Nov. 30, 2007....
Two of the most-talked about machines in the cotton industry will be on display at the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show, giving farmers a first-hand look at the “next revolution” in harvesting technology....
From the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
The donation of two research plot combines by Stewart Seeds, Inc., to the University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture will help preserve valuable research data in eastern Arkansas, said Fred Bourland, director of field research units at Keiser and Marianna....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
President Bush said he would make the “successful” conclusion of the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization negotiations a top priority of his administration during his last year in office....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The stars are lined up for higher gin-run cottonseed prices — already over $300 for some end users and climbing, according to Cotton Incorporated’s Tom Wedegaertner, Cary, N.C....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Ed Schafer is the new U.S. Secretary of Agriculture....
By Bob Scott
Arkansas Extension Weed Specialist
It is not too late to take care of some troublesome weeds in wheat....
The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Tennessee announces that agricultural producers who want to apply for 2008 funding for the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) should do so by Friday, Feb. 8....
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Jul 24, 2008 10:31 AM
Senators Tom Harkin of Iowa and Richard Lugar of Indiana have introduced legislation aimed at addressing one of the valid criticisms of ethanol production — the lack of an economical way to move the renewable fuel to major markets....
Jul 24, 2008 10:28 AM
U.S. negotiators this week announced a new offer of a $15 billion cap in the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks on the broadest level of U.S. farm supports called overall trade distorting support or OTDS, according to a report from USA Rice Federation....
Jul 24, 2008 10:22 AM
Every year, Eric Webster receives many calls on Newpath and Roundup drift. “The glyphosate drift is primarily in northeast Louisiana,” said the LSU AgCenter weed scientist at the recent field day at the Rice Research Station in Crowley, La....
Jul 24, 2008 10:18 AM
Several weeks ago, traps showed large numbers of bollworm moths in Arkansas — including one in Jefferson County with more than 1,000 moths — but egg and worm numbers haven’t developed in cotton as expected, according to Scott Akin, Extension entomologist with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
Jul 24, 2008 10:15 AM
A bill that will relieve farmers and ranchers from undue burdens and regulations when they transport their crops and livestock across state lines has the support of the American Farm Bureau Federation....
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