By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
“Beans in the teens.” Soybean futures aren’t quite there yet — January was trading at $12.45 as this is being written — but the highest prices in decades could help soybeans recover nearly 10 percent of their acreage and perhaps push back above 70 million acres in 2008....
U.S. farmers grew nearly 7,000 acres of organic upland and pima cotton in 2007, a 14 percent increase over that grown in 2006, according to a survey conducted by the Organic Trade Association....
Stephen L. Censky, chief executive officer of the American Soybean Association, announced that William S. (Bill) Schuermann has joined the association’s staff as executive director, member and industry relations....
The agenda has been released for the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008). Cabinet-level government officials from more than 70 countries will join civil society partners and private sector leaders to discuss the opportunities and challenges of a global, rapid deployment of renewable energy....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
How’d you like this car: A stunningly beautiful roadster that will zoom from 0 to 60 mph in a neck-snapping 4 seconds (take that, Ferrari!), has a 130 mph top speed, delivers the equivalent of 135 miles per gallon, never stops at a gasoline pump, goes 250 miles on a “fill-up,” and has an operating cost of 2 cents per mile?...
CropLife America Chairman Eric Wintemute has nominated CLA president and CEO Jay Vroom to the new ag advisory committee being formed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency....
The Arkansas Soybean Association has set Jan. 22 as the date of its 44th annual business session and seminar at the Convention Center in Brinkley, Ark. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., the program at 9 a.m., with conclusion following lunch....
Are you losing extra yield from pasture and forage crops each season due to low soil pH?...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Escalating index fund investment in the U.S. commodity markets may rival the dot.com bubble in terms of capital, risk and uncertainty, noted Peter Egli, an analyst with Plexus Cotton Ltd., speaking at the Ag Market Network’s December teleconference....
By Tobie Blanchard
Large acreage shifts, high yields and good prices marked Louisiana agricultural production in 2007. Many acres shifted away from cotton and into corn. Wheat acres also rose. Overall, Louisiana farmers had a strong year, according to an LSU AgCenter economist Kurt Guidry....
Farmers will teach farmers new uses for technology at the annual Computers on the Farm Conference, Jan. 4-5, at Tan-Tar-A Resort, Osage Beach, Mo....
Canada’s 12th indigenous case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is the latest source of alarm for the U.S. Department of Agriculture....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mid-South farmers already know that late-summer heat and drought hurt their soybean yields. Now, concerns about soybean seed availability for next year are surfacing....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. farmers and ranchers typically get the short end of the stick in international trade deals as negotiators give priority to other segments of the economy over agriculture’s interests, says former House ag committee chairman Larry Combest....
Consumers may have paid a little more for their holiday meals this Christmas, but it’s unlikely farmers should have to shoulder the blame for the higher prices, farm organizations say....
From Ducks Unlimited and the Arkansas Game And Fish Commission
Arkansas originally had an estimated 9.8 million acres of wetlands, primarily in what is known as the Delta. Today, fewer than 1 million acres of forested wetlands remain in the Arkansas Delta....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton prices should strengthen early next year as the world cotton industry comes to grips with a dramatic change in world fundamentals and huge investments into the market by commodity funds, said Peter Egli, analyst with Plexus Cotton, Ltd., speaking at the Ag Market Network’s December teleconference....
The National Cotton Council is urging consultants to join cotton producers at the 2008 Beltwide Cotton Conferences at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Jan. 8-11. The conferences’ theme is “Orchestrate Your Opportunities.”...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Floyd Gaibler, USDA undersecretary, Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services, says agriculture has enjoyed an unprecedented period of prosperity over the past five years....
For many regional farmers, the weather made 2007 a difficult year. While continuing education can’t affect killing freezes or drought, it can help the bottom line. That’s why field days are so valuable, say officials with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. rice industry has crossed a major hurdle towards resuming regular rice shipments to the European Union....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A number of people in public life and the news media had some not so nice things to say about cotton producers and the effect of the U.S. cotton program on farmers in West Africa in 2007. But Jimmy Carter?...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Global rice production and consumption are in balance and per capita use of rice is drifting down with higher incomes around the world and changing eating habits. But almost every other factor underpinning the global price outlook for rice is out of sorts, including ending stocks, trade balance, the value of the dollar, production costs and whatever the heck China is doing. The result is the highest rice prices in some time....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mid-South and Southeast catfish farmers can apply for $11 million in assistance for catfish feed losses due to declared federal disasters that occurred between January 2005 and February 2007....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Nathan Childs, an economist with USDA’s Economic Research Service, can’t recall a rosier price projection for rice since he began presenting outlooks at the USA Rice Outlook Conference 12 years ago....
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Jul 18, 2008 9:29 AM
Promising new rice varieties are being developed and scrutinized at the LSU Rice Research Station in Crowley, La. Catahoula, an early semi-dwarf long-grain “has very good yield potential,” said Steve Linscombe, LSU AgCenter rice breeder and station manager, at the recent field day in Crowley....
Jul 18, 2008 9:27 AM
The USA Rice Federation board of directors has elected James W. (Jamie) Warshaw to be its next chairman....
Jul 18, 2008 9:23 AM
Al Montna, USA Rice Federation board chairman, was presented with a plaque in recognition of his dedicated service throughout his two-year term as board chairman. ...
Jul 18, 2008 9:21 AM
The LSU AgCenter’s Iberia Research Station at Jeanerette, La., will host the St. Mary and Iberia parishes sugarcane field day starting at 4:30 p.m. on July 24....
Jul 18, 2008 9:18 AM
More than $4 million will be awarded to the University of Georgia to study the causes of Colony Collapse Disorder and other diseases affecting bee populations, whose pollination is valued at $15 billion annually to U.S. agriculture....
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