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....
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. ...
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....
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. ...
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack named Dave White as chief of USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)....
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. ...
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....
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....
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 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. ...
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....
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....
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Department of Agriculture has 10 summer internships available to incoming high school juniors and seniors....
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....
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....
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....
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. ...
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. ...
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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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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