By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If young minds are indeed shaped forever by the age of four or five, it makes sense to instill as many traditional values in them as soon as possible....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Worldwide medium-grain rice supplies are extremely tight and, understandably, Mid-South growers would like to take advantage. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA analysts are projecting 2009 U.S. cotton plantings at 8.5 million acres, which is slightly higher than the 8.11 million acres projected by the National Cotton Council’s Annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey, released Feb. 13....
Farmers are expected to plant fewer acres not only in the United States but in the rest of the cotton-producing world in 2009-10, economists with the International Cotton Advisory Committee said....
By Ford L. Baldwin
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This week I have some general comments on soil residual herbicides. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Two of the top Democrats on the Senate Agriculture Committee are praising President Obama’s new “honesty in budgeting” approach....
The second annual student essay contest sponsored by Syngenta Crop Protection and Farm Press Publications is upping the ante and expanding into more states....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Working in a hot spot for soybean diseases keeps University of Tennessee plant pathologist Melvin Newman on his toes most of the time....
The United Soybean Board and soybean checkoff have announced the organization of a second annual See for Yourself tour. ...
To combat rice water weevil, Dermacor X-100 has received a state crisis exemption label for use on rice in Arkansas between March 3 and March 17. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is trying to sell commodity groups on the idea of replacing traditional farm programs with so-called green payments or carbon credits....
As the biotechnology companies prepare to introduce eight-way and even higher combinations of genetic traits, industry members have been trying to figure out how to handle all the “clutter” from the brand names that will be involved....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With a humid climate, a plethora of connected waterways and cornucopia of flora and fauna, Louisiana — like Florida and Hawaii — seems particularly inviting to invasive species. ...
The Memphis-based National Cotton Ginners Association (NCGA) elected its officers for 2009 at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
An ambitious bill to tighten regulations and oversight on financial markets passed the House Agriculture Committee Feb. 12....
By Paul Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers and others in agriculture now find themselves in an agronomic “perfect storm,” says Paul Fixen of the International Plant Nutrition Institute....
Jay Hardwick, a Newellton, La., cotton producer, was elected chairman of the National Cotton Council for 2009 at the organization’s annual meeting held in Washington, D.C. ...
Increasing exports of distiller’s dried grains with solubles is critical to the continued success of the U.S. ethanol industry, said Dan Keefe, U.S. Grains Council manager of international operations for DDGS....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA projected a 40 million-bushel increase in sorghum use in February based on indications of increased sorghum use by ethanol plants in the Southern and Central Plains. ...
Seed companies have announced several new corn and soybean lines for 2009. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
President Obama’s proposal calling for the elimination of direct payments to large “agribusinesses” is drawing a strong reaction from members of Congress and some of the nation’s farm organizations....
Gary Morrison, Farm Service Agency program director for Mississippi, will host two question and answer sessions on the new payment eligibility rules and regulations in the farm bill....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers are not exactly knocking down the USDA Farm Service Agency doors to sign up for the average crop revenue election, according to members of a panel who spoke at an Ag Issues Forum at the start of the 2009 Commodity Classic....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Many farmers in America are feeling a sense of betrayal right now....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
There were more farms in the United States in 2007 — no particular surprise, since the number of smaller “hobby” farms has kept growing....
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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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