Senate Democrats have unveiled a “rural agenda” for the 111th Congress and a Web site highlighting issues important to rural communities and promoting policies that will benefit rural areas....
Catfish producers in southeast Arkansas are invited to the Southeast Area Catfish Workshop on April 2. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA projects U.S. old crop corn ending stocks will be 50 million bushels lower in its March 11 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production Report....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. farmers could plant 3.8 million fewer acres of corn, soybeans and wheat in 2009-10 as dramatically lower commodity prices and higher input costs force them to rethink the scale of their operations....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It begins again: As the sun returns from its southern hemisphere sojourn and daylight hours lengthen, the earth begins shaking off its winter doldrums and drab brown and depressing gray give way to an increasingly vibrant palette — bright yellow daffodils, red flowering quince, purple hyacinths, the shimmering white of pear and plum trees....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture has traditionally recommended DAP or ammonium sulfate fertilizer to help rice injured by glyphosate or Roundup drift. ...
National Cotton Council directors for 2009 were announced here at the industrywide organization’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C....
By Robert Coats
Professor/Extension Economist
University of Arkansas
The economic events of the past six months and the resulting grain crop prices may be causing us to understate Delta cotton’s potential competitive position in the 2009 crop mix....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Former President Gerald Ford once said, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have.”...
The Arkansas Rice Research and Promotion Board has voted to fund the USA Rice Council from the Arkansas rice promotion checkoff again next year....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said USDA will begin making $145 million in direct operating loans to farmers as one of the first steps in distributing the $28 billion earmarked for the Department in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Obama administration appears to be having second thoughts about its proposal to phase out direct payments to agribusinesses with sales of more than $500,000 and replace them with “green” payments....
By Joe Henggeler
Irrigation Specialist
University of Missouri
Various indicators point to surface drainage problems negatively affecting soybean yields, especially in wet years. ...
Though confronted by numerous challenges, America’s young farmers and ranchers express a high level of optimism about agriculture and say they are better off than they were five years ago. ...
Applications are being taken for the 2009 Stoneville Ginners School, Stoneville, Miss., June 9-11. ...
The late Arizona cotton producer Charles “Charlie” Youngker is the recipient of the 2008 Oscar Johnston Lifetime Achievement Award....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
I suppose somewhere there is actually someone smart enough to wade through the morass of minutiae in the much ballyhooed and debated 1,100-page economic stimulus package and understand just what’s in it....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In the NCC’s Early Season Planting Intentions Survey, U.S. cotton producers said they would plant 8.11 million acres of cotton in 2009. ...
With a hot medium-grain rice seed market in the Mid-South — and the potential that California varieties are being considered to fill a supply gap — Mid-South growers are being warned of several dangers....
Clyde T. Sharp, a Roll, Ariz., cotton producer, will serve as 2009 president of Cotton Council International. CCI is the National Cotton Council’s export promotions arm and carries out programs in more than 50 countries globally under the Cotton USA trademark....
Hay production and beef cattle management will be topics covered in a field day at the LSU AgCenter’s Iberia Research Station, Jeanerette, La., March 21....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Government regulatory agencies in South Korea have given approval to imports of two new biotech-enhanced soybean varieties — Roundup Ready 2 Yield from Monsanto and LibertyLink from Bayer CropScience — from the United States....
“I’ve never seen farmers so undecided about what they intend to plant this late in the season.”...
By Roy Smith
The first impression I get looking at this year’s crop insurance decision is that not much has changed. ...
Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Lester Spell has announced Environmental Protection Agency approval of exemptions on two pesticides that will help rice and corn producers throughout the state protect crops from damaging pests....
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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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