Allenberg Cotton Co. and Dunavant Enterprises will likely settle a merger agreement by Sept. 30, according to Allenberg Chief Executive Officer Joe Nicosia....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Declining stocks and a (hopefully) recovering economy could bring an uptick in demand for cotton in the new marketing year that began Aug. 1, says Gary Adams, vice president for economics and policy analysis at the National Cotton Council....
By Paul Counce, University of Arkansas
Draining rice fields for harvest is a critical timing question for rice growers....
By Larry Fugate, Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
Heavy July rains were viewed as a curse or a blessing across the Arkansas Delta, with soybean producers in the northeast citing brutal conditions since spring, while the precipitation was described as “very timely” in parts of Chicot and Desha counties in the southeast corner....
USDA will begin continuous sign-up for the new Conservation Stewardship Program Aug. 10 with the first signup period cutoff scheduled for Sept. 30....
The U.S. Senate this week overwhelmingly passed a $124.5 billion fiscal year 2010 appropriations bill for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration....
The Arkansas Rice Federation next week will host several grower meetings throughout the state....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Colusa, Fortuna, Acadia. Those are names you don’t hear much in connection with the rice industry anymore. ...
Set for Aug. 11 through Aug. 12 in Olive Branch, Miss., the 25th annual meeting of the Mid-South Association of Wheat Scientists (MAWS) will cover a long list of important topics. ...
From the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
Three types of caterpillars are defoliating soybeans, cotton and pastureland across millions of acres in Arkansas, according to Gus Lorenz, Extension entomologist for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
With a climate bill having passed the House and now being hotly debated in the Senate, questions about the potential legislation abound. ...
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
John Grant has an easy smile, the size-you-up-instantly insight of a seasoned horse trader, a prodigious store of details about crops he’s made, the varied work he’s done, places he’s been, deals he’s cemented, people he knows — and stories about all of them....
By Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter
The potential and problems of converting forest and agricultural products into biofuels was the focus of the third Louisiana Natural Resources Symposium held this summer....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Aimed at enhancing U.S. food safety after a series of high-profile product warnings and recalls, the House passed the Food Safety Enhancement Act (HR 2749) by a vote of 283 to 142 on July 30....
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
The story in the field now is pigweed, pigweed and more pigweed!...
Horizon Ag will hold a field day Aug. 11 at Tanner Seed Farm, 2893 County Rd. 675, 8 miles west of Bernie Mo., featuring the latest Clearfield rice varieties including CL 111, CL142-AR and CL181-AR....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Earlier this summer, after changes to the benefit of agriculture, a climate change bill passed the House. ...
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
With the debate over climate change seeming to heat up daily, the 25x’25 Alliance and a team of University of Tennessee economists have announced they will conduct an in-depth analysis of the impacts of global warming on U.S. agriculture and forestry....
By Bonnie Coblentz, MSU Ag Communications
Three weeks of cool, rainy weather in July were just what the state’s soybeans needed, breathing new life into the struggling crop....
Dectes stem borer, an insect that tunnels in soybean plants, is now found in significant numbers in soybean fields surveyed in 12 counties in southeast Missouri....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
During July 22 Senate Agriculture Committee hearings on cap and trade legislation it became quickly apparent that major questions have yet to be answered by proponents....
Heavy rain over the last two weeks has accelerated Southern rust, and with about a third of the fields untreated, Arkansas’ corn growers have been urged to scout fields for the disease....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
China attempted to auction 500,000 tons of soybeans this week. ...
The Delta Classic Scholarship Golf Tournament July 24 at the Helena (Ark.) Country Club raised more than $26,000 to fund scholarships for University of Arkansas students majoring in crop management or environmental, soil and water science....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A July run up in cotton prices that occurred even as fundamentals for cotton were decidedly bearish was likely a big reason why analysts at the Cotton Roundtable in New York City were having a tough time projecting a potential range for December 2009 futures prices....
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Mar 17, 2010 9:50 AM
Rising production costs and the stability of commodity prices are the chief worries of Mid-South farmers who attended the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show in late February in Memphis, Tenn....
Mar 17, 2010 9:45 AM
While record rainfall last year meant little or no irrigation for soybean fields and good yield potential, excessive wet conditions during part of September and October damaged much of the Group 4 soybeans ready for harvest in the east-central and southeast part of the state....
Mar 17, 2010 9:35 AM
Your editorial addressing the report “Extension: a Modern-Day Pony Express?” made me wonder if the Pony Express was used to gather the information....
Mar 17, 2010 9:30 AM
Mississippi’s forest industry is poised to take advantage of an old technology that turns sawmill residues into environmentally friendly energy sources for heat and electricity....
Mar 17, 2010 9:21 AM
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking project proposals that will improve water quality and the overall health of the Mississippi River in 41 eligible watersheds in 12 states....
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