Danger in single-herbicide weed control 

Mar 31, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

You couldn’t blame farmers for taking a certain amount of pleasure in being able to kill tall weeds with glyphosate when Roundup Ready crops first came on the market more than 10 years ago....

Cuba, campaigns and Wall Street — Lincoln 

Mar 31, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Up for a vote in the next round of national elections, veteran Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln began her campaign in mid-March. ...

Cotton ginners — progress on issues 

Mar 30, 2009,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

A number of key issues confront the cotton ginning industry going into the new year, says Sledge Taylor, Como, Miss., producer/ginner and president of the National Cotton Ginners Association....

China has hand in U.S. economy 

Mar 30, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says he’s “worried” about his country’s investments in U.S. Treasury bonds. ...

Cotton as food in second green revolution 

Mar 27, 2009,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Forty years ago, agronomist Norman Bourlag’s “Green Revolution” used improved seed and fertilizers to dramatically increase yields of grain crops, saving millions from starvation and earning him a Nobel Peace Prize....

Soybean rust — where from here? 

Mar 27, 2009,

By Tom Allen, Billy Moore, and Trey Koger

In November 2004, soybean production in the continental United States was forever changed when soybean rust was detected for the first time near Baton Rouge, La....

Cuba farm trade barrier targeted 

Mar 27, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Farm-state members of Congress are trying once again to force the executive branch of the government to remove barriers to sales of wheat, rice and other U.S. agricultural products to Cuba....

In payment limit war, farmers win one 

Mar 27, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The first skirmish in the 2009 version of the battle over payment limits has been held, and farmers appear to have won....

USDA to validate payment eligibility 

Mar 26, 2009

In response to the discovery of nearly $50 million in payments to ineligible farmers, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have begun efforts to ensure that high-income individuals and entities who request USDA payments meet income limits set forth in the 2008 Farm Bill....

Disaster assistance buy-in details 

Mar 26, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says producers can pay a buy-in fee to become eligible for the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program (SURE), Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish (ELAP) and Tree Assistance Programs (TAP) for the 2008 crop year....

New NRCS chief — Dave White 

Mar 26, 2009

Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack named Dave White as chief of USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)....

Textiles laud ‘made in USA’ law 

Mar 26, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The nation’s textile industry has been in a free fall for years, like much of the U.S. manufacturing base. ...

Soybean rust resistance genes ID’d 

Mar 26, 2009

Using state-of-the-art genomics techniques, a team of scientists from the Agricultural Research Service, Iowa State University and Brazil have identified a cluster of soybean genes that provide resistance to the fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi, which causes Asian soybean rust....

Deadline April 15 for $20,000 in scholarships 

Mar 26, 2009

There are just a few weeks left until the April 15 deadline for the Future of Southern Agriculture Student Essay Contest sponsored by Syngenta Crop Protection and Farm Press Publications....

Central America, Mexico like U.S. sorghum 

Mar 26, 2009

The U.S. Grains Council, a non-profit organization focused on developing international markets for U.S. corn, barley, sorghum and related co-products, recently hosted a team of Mexican consultants and buyers to the United States to gather insights on the U.S. sorghum industry....

American Agri-Women meeting in St. Louis April 3-5 to update policy 

Mar 26, 2009

American Agri-Women leaders from throughout the United States will meet in St. Louis April 3-5 to update their positions on legislative and regulatory policy for the year. ...

Soybean seed quality outstanding 

Mar 25, 2009,

By Trey Koger
Soybean Extension Specialist, Delta Research and Extension Center

The quality of the soybean seed we are about to plant in the coming weeks is outstanding, in sharp contrast to the quality of the seed we planted in 2008. Poor germination and vigor for a lot of seed last year resulted in a significant amount of seed withheld or removed from the seed sale pipeline....

Clearfield rice — cause for caution 

Mar 25, 2009,

By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC

Rice planting is near and it is time to figure out how we are going to do things from a weed control standpoint. I do not know what the percent of the acreage that will be planted to Clearfield rice, but it would seem to equate to whatever the seed supply was....

Ag-related summer internships for high school students 

Mar 25, 2009

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Department of Agriculture has 10 summer internships available to incoming high school juniors and seniors....

Drivers of food price run-up continue 

Mar 24, 2009,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Despite “remarkable course changes” in the food-versus-fuel debate that occurred in 2008 when oil and many agricultural prices reached record levels, “the key drivers of food prices and their complex interactions remain the same now,” according to a new report from the Farm Foundation....

Cottonseed, gin trash income opportunities 

Mar 24, 2009,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

While cotton acres have been in free-fall the past few years, demand and price for cottonseed have never been better....

Obama budget breaks contract with farmers, say senators 

Mar 24, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

When the Obama administration’s fiscal 2010 budget proposals reach Congress, the agricultural portion will likely face a wall of bipartisan opposition....

Rice trade issues for new USTR Kirk 

Mar 24, 2009,

By Bob Cummings
Senior Vice President
USA Rice Federation

The confirmation of Ron Kirk as the new U.S. Trade Representative on March 18, 2009, is an opportunity for the Obama administration to refocus the U.S. trade agenda. ...

Letter: Office of Rural Policy 

Mar 24, 2009,

By Congressman Travis W. Childers
First District, Mississippi

We recently celebrated National Agriculture Day, honoring the innumerable contributions rural America has made to our country. ...

Coley re-elected Cotton Producers chairman 

Mar 24, 2009

C.B. “Chuck” Coley, a producer/ginner from Vienna, Ga., was re-elected chairman of the American Cotton Producers of the National Cotton Council for 2009 during the NCC annual meeting in Washington, D.C. ...

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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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