By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Aside from the intensely polarized debate about health care reform, perhaps no issue raises more hackles nowadays than climate change legislation....
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
Boy, what a year! I thought last year was the year of all years that everyone wanted to get behind them. In many ways this year has been worse....
By Karen Templeton, MSU Ag Communications
Biodiesel production has created a new market for soybean oil, and although the demands for this alternative fuel fluctuate, the industry remains strong....
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is inviting amateur and professional photographers to enter their best poultry or pet bird photos in the Biosecurity For Birds calendar photo contest....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The thorny issue of immigration reform may get pricklier before it gets better, and Congress may have a narrow window of opportunity to make meaningful changes in a system that has not worked well for years before the cycle of national elections makes passing any contentious issue even more difficult....
Mississippi agriculture will enter new territory when the first certified peanut seed grown in the state becomes available to growers in spring 2010....
The 13th annual National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Conference, Southern Corn and Soybean Conference, and the Southern Precision Agriculture Conference will be joined in 2010 by the newly-organized Southern Field Crop Alliance....
The agricultural appropriations bill now pending in the Senate would provide nearly $150 million in child nutrition initiatives aimed at fighting hunger and promoting health among children in Arkansas and around the country, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., said....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Excessive rainfall in September is eroding yield expectations for Mid-South corn and cotton crops, according to USDA’s Oct. 9 Crop Production Report....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
China bought over 800,000 tons of a million tons of soybeans sold last week. ...
By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The good news for U.S. peanut producers is that the demand for their crop is likely to remain relatively strong, and the market will need more peanuts next year than it does this year....
Foreigners have an interest (partial or total ownership) in 1.6 percent of all privately held U.S. agricultural land and 0.92 percent of all land in the United States, according to a recent USDA’s report. ...
Palmer pigweed is about the last thing a Mid-South farmer wants to find in his fields....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln presided over her first Senate Agriculture Committee hearing as chairman on Sept. 30. Having taken over the chairmanship several weeks earlier (for more, see Lincoln to chair Senate Ag Committee), Lincoln spoke with Delta Farm Pressshortly after the hearing. ...
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Enrollment for the 2010 Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP) and the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program has begun and will continue through June 1, 2010....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
India’s traditional monsoon went missing for several long spells this season, and in the end, it may provide only 70 percent to 80 percent of traditional precipitation to the region. ...
By Troy Hornbeck
For those who believe in the future of biodiesel in Arkansas, a recent front page of the Wall Street Journal may have brought some scowls and tears. ...
A referendum will be conducted among U.S. upland cotton producers and importers from Oct. 13 through Nov. 10, USDA has announced....
Online registration for the USA Rice Federation’s Outlook Conference is now open. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A recent column on climate change (When greenhouse gas meets ice age) has prompted a round of bouquets and brickbats from readers, which I have excerpted below. ...
By Harry Cline, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The 20-year meteoric ride for American Pima cotton in California’s San Joaquin Valley spiraled down over the past two seasons, as production and consumption nosedived right along with the world economy....
By Tobie Blanchard, LSU AgCenter
Frequent rains during September and continuing into October have kept cotton farmers out of their fields and have jeopardized the crop, according to Don Boquet, LSU AgCenter cotton specialist....
At the Cotton Board’s annual meeting in September, Alabama producer V. Larkin Martin was elected the new chair of the board. ...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
For much of Arkansas’ rice crop, it’s been a difficult year. In mid-September persistent rains continued, hampering harvest and flooding low-lying fields. ...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, and California Sen. Barbara Boxer, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, last week released a long-awaited, 800-page climate change bill that largely focuses on carbon sequestration through a cap and trade system....
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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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