By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Having waited months on a ruling, U.S. catfish farmers were pleased when the USDA recently agreed to inspect imported tra and basa from Asia. ...
By Harry Cline, Farm Press Editorial Staff
On the eve of spring harvest of hand-picked fruit and vegetable crops, the onerous and mostly ineffective H-2A program used by growers to legally recruit foreign workers has become even more arduous to utilize....
The 58th Mid-South Farm and Gin show, boasting more than 400 exhibits of the latest in equipment, technology, and services will be held Friday and Saturday at the downtown Memphis Cook Convention Center....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Following nearly a decade of litigation, a $1.25 billion agreement has been struck between the USDA and a class consisting of black farmers. ...
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. corn, soybean and wheat farmers are benefiting from record demand at home and abroad, demand which is preventing record crop production from pushing commodity prices much below current levels, the USDA’s chief economist says....
A recently released guide helps you identify soybean growth stages. ...
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
Last week I ended the article with a comment about how important Command is to our weed management systems in rice....
The Mid-South Farm & Gin Show is joining forces with Syngenta to collect food items at the show for the Mid-South Food Bank as part of Syngenta’s Weeding Out Hunger campaign....
Drayton Mayers, CEO of the Cotton Board, has tendered his resignation to me in a letter to Larkin Martin, chairman of the Cotton Board....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Soy-meal supply bearishly exceeds demand. Russia has stopped imports of U. S. poultry reducing demand for soy-meal. ...
Bayer CropScience has canceled plans to launch two new proprietary FiberMax varieties in 2010, a result of delayed regulatory approval from Japan....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
After Republican Scott Brown won the Congressional seat held by the late Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy in mid-January, the fear among certain members of Congress that they might be swept away by mid-term elections became very real....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
What will the coming year hold for rice growers? Jay Davis III, who runs East Bernard Rice Marketing in Texas, has some ideas....
Eddie Smith, a Floydada, Texas, cotton producer, was elected chairman of the National Cotton Council for 2010 during the NCC’s annual meeting, in Memphis, Feb. 8-12. ...
By Roger Meissen, University of Missouri
All Peter Scharf sees is yellow corn and lost potential when he looks at the 2009 corn harvest in Missouri....
2009 Mississippi County Cotton Demonstration Trials...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
It upset many legislators when Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, Senate Majority leader, recently scuttled the Baucus/Grassley jobs bill by introducing a scaled-down bill of his own. ...
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
We’re not talking about prunes, here, but the math still makes sense. ...
Cotton Incorporated has announced their 2009 Annual Report is available online. ...
While the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show — now just a week away — offers producers a firsthand look at a wide-ranging array of new products and services, this year’s event will feature a broad lineup of educational seminars focusing on resistance concerns in crops, marketing/outlook, and legislation....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Twenty years or so ago, I attended a conference on the west coast, at which a distinguished climatologist made a presentation on theories being developed about a weather phenomenon called El Niño....
The changes and challenges in agriculture the past few years have made farmers more aware than ever of the need to develop long-term strategies....
With growing interest by consumers, customers, and policy-makers in knowing how the production of food impacts the environment, the U.S. rice industry is set to conduct a major research project — the development of a regional sustainability benchmark report to document rice farmers’ continuous efficiencies (or improvements) in natural resource management practices....
When the National Animal Germplasm Program (NAGP) opened its doors a decade ago, it started out with genetic material from 40 lines of chicken. ...
Mississippi Women in Agriculture will hold its annual state conference March 11-12 at Mississippi State University with an agenda that continues the program’s goal to improve business skills of farm owners and managers....
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Mar 17, 2010 9:50 AM
Rising production costs and the stability of commodity prices are the chief worries of Mid-South farmers who attended the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show in late February in Memphis, Tenn....
Mar 17, 2010 9:45 AM
While record rainfall last year meant little or no irrigation for soybean fields and good yield potential, excessive wet conditions during part of September and October damaged much of the Group 4 soybeans ready for harvest in the east-central and southeast part of the state....
Mar 17, 2010 9:35 AM
Your editorial addressing the report “Extension: a Modern-Day Pony Express?” made me wonder if the Pony Express was used to gather the information....
Mar 17, 2010 9:30 AM
Mississippi’s forest industry is poised to take advantage of an old technology that turns sawmill residues into environmentally friendly energy sources for heat and electricity....
Mar 17, 2010 9:21 AM
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking project proposals that will improve water quality and the overall health of the Mississippi River in 41 eligible watersheds in 12 states....
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