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Louisiana rice study: check micronutrients 

Apr 2, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Since it’s still early in the growing season, Mid-South rice farmers may want to check micronutrient levels — particularly zinc — available in their fields....

Biodiesel board slams EC duties 

Apr 2, 2009

The National Biodiesel Board has submitted formal written comments in response to the European Commission’s decision to impose provisional antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. biodiesel entering the European Union....

Wheat rust target of global effort 

Apr 2, 2009

Norman E. Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the World Food Prize, recently gathered leading wheat experts from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe in Mexico to address the threat that stem rust poses to the world’s wheat supply....

Louisiana rice — medium-grains, new varieties 

Apr 1, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

As Louisiana producers continue early-season planting, medium-grain rice varieties are in short supply. ...

New weed technology for resistance 

Apr 1, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

One factor is common to new weed control technologies coming onto the market for corn and soybeans — most can help with resistant weeds....

ACRE signup starts late April 

Apr 1, 2009

USDA will schedule the signup for the average crop revenue election (ACRE) program in April as part of its plan to complete sign-up for the 2009 farm programs....

Vilsack extends sign-up deadline 

Mar 31, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is extending the sign-up deadline for the 2009 direct and counter-cyclical payment program from June 1 to Aug. 14 to give producers more time to analyze their options under the 2008 farm bill....

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....

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