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Cellulosic energy research 

Mar 16, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Because Arkansas is “prime real estate” for bioenergy crops, the recent announcement of a joint U.S. Department of Energy/University of Arkansas research effort is most welcome, says Chuck West....

Obama direct payment plan criticized 

Mar 13, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Criticism continues to rain down on the Obama administration’s proposal to reduce government spending by phasing out direct payments to agribusinesses with more than $500,000 in annual sales, capping payments to individual farmers at $250,000 and ending cotton storage payments....

Ag groups oppose cuts to safety net 

Mar 13, 2009

A letter co-signed by 39 other agricultural and related organizations and sent to congressional leaders expresses “strong opposition to the more than $16 billion in cuts to the farm safety net proposed in President Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget.” ...

Crop marketing plan — peace of mind 

Mar 13, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Despite the economic turmoil swirling around the globe, Greg Simpson is “pretty calm” going into the new cropping season. ...

Cotton market's recurring theme 

Mar 13, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The cotton market could take a bullish turn once the world recession starts to lift, and textile mills suddenly have to start refilling pipeline supplies of cotton, says Joe Nicosia, chief executive officer of Allenberg Cotton Co., speaking at the Mid-South Farm and Show’s ag update session....

Mexican rice borer threat 

Mar 13, 2009,

By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter

Gene Reagan, LSU AgCenter entomologist, has been doggedly studying the Mexican rice borer’s spread northward from the Rio Grande Valley for almost 30 years....

Ethanol from forages 

Mar 13, 2009,

By Fae Holin
Managing Editor
Hay & Forage Grower

Cellulosic ethanol is being hailed as the biofuel that will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent, reduce U.S. dependence of foreign oil and won’t take prime ag land away from food production....

Senate Democrats’ rural agenda  

Mar 13, 2009

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 Workshop for Arkansas  

Mar 13, 2009

Catfish producers in southeast Arkansas are invited to the Southeast Area Catfish Workshop on April 2. ...

Ethanol cuts corn stocks — USDA 

Mar 12, 2009,

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....

Lower grain prices squeeze acres out of production 

Mar 12, 2009,

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....

Tractors roll as spring returns 

Mar 12, 2009,

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....

Glyphosate injury to rice — what works? 

Mar 12, 2009,

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. ...

Cotton Council names 2009 directors 

Mar 12, 2009

National Cotton Council directors for 2009 were announced here at the industrywide organization’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C....

Case for planting 2009 cotton 

Mar 11, 2009,

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....

Government ‘big enough’ whittles safety net 

Mar 11, 2009,

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.”...

USA Rice Council awarded promotion funds 

Mar 11, 2009

The Arkansas Rice Research and Promotion Board has voted to fund the USA Rice Council from the Arkansas rice promotion checkoff again next year....

USDA’s first stimulus spending 

Mar 10, 2009,

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....

Obama — change on payment proposals? 

Mar 10, 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....

Bean yields on beds related to rain timing 

Mar 10, 2009,

By Joe Henggeler
Irrigation Specialist
University of Missouri

Various indicators point to surface drainage problems negatively affecting soybean yields, especially in wet years. ...

Young farmers optimistic 

Mar 10, 2009

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. ...

2009 Ginner Schools June 9-11 at Stoneville 

Mar 10, 2009

Applications are being taken for the 2009 Stoneville Ginners School, Stoneville, Miss., June 9-11. ...

Cotton award honors Charles F. Youngker 

Mar 10, 2009

The late Arizona cotton producer Charles “Charlie” Youngker is the recipient of the 2008 Oscar Johnston Lifetime Achievement Award....

Luster of new beginnings tarnished 

Mar 9, 2009,

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....

Weather, prices adjust cotton acreage 

Mar 9, 2009,

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. ...

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