The Monsanto Fund, a private foundation and the philanthropic arm of Monsanto Company, has made an $18,600 grant to support the FARMY Program. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Steve Stevens says the first time his employees heard about the new irrigation program he wanted to try on his farm they weren’t exactly thrilled at the prospect....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I hope my last article and my continued remarks regarding soil residual herbicides will be taken in the positive vein in which they are intended....
By Rick Bogren
LSU AgCenter
Falling futures prices for farm commodities combined with a general economic effect on demand and the leftover effects of hurricanes Gustav and Ike will put Louisiana farmers in a bind for 2009, according to economists in the LSU AgCenter....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Every six months or so, as I drive along the main drag pre-dawn, the siren call of dough deep-fried in artery-clogging fats and coated with sugar reaches out to ensnare me, and ever so guiltily I wheel in for a couple of glazed donuts....
The LSU AgCenter will host the 2009 Agricultural Outlook Conference Feb. 26 in Baton Rouge, La. ...
Ceres, Inc., has begun booking switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum seed under its Blade Energy Crops label. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
This isn’t your grandfather’s commodity market, where bears and bulls play tug-o-war with a sturdy rope of supply and demand, and future price direction can be graphed with some degree of confidence....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
There are four components of successful late-season soybean disease management....
By Bob Scott
University of Arkansas Professor and Extension Weed Specialist
Each year at the Extension Service, we receive a number of samples of various weeds to test for herbicide resistance....
Philip Bauer, a USDA Agricultural Research Service scientist, received the 2009 Outstanding Research Award in Cotton Physiology. ...
Women, who are often the sole decision-makers in their agricultural businesses, are the target audience for an upcoming seminar in the Mississippi Delta....
If the U.S. cotton industry is to survive and prosper through the current economic uncertainty, U.S. cotton producers must be able to harvest more of their crop on the same number of acres, experts say....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A new USDA regulation which unilaterally terminates base acres on federally-owned cropland has taken many of the nation’s farmers completely by surprise. ...
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A couple of months ago, I was buying gas at a nearby convenience store for $1.33.9. ...
By Laura Sweets
Plant Pathologist
University of Missouri
It is difficult at this point in the year to know what conditions will be like during the upcoming planting season. ...
U.S. Representative Charles W. Boustany Jr., R-La., will host the third annual Farm Day Forum. ...
USDA has expanded the federal quarantine on the Asian citrus psyllid to include the entire states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain told Plaquemines Parish citrus growers gathered at the Saxon Becnel and Sons Citrus Farm in early February....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Since mid-2008, Trey Koger has noticed a serious uptick of growers interested in conventional soybeans. ...
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The fact less continuous cotton is being grown is a good thing, as rotations break up nematode and disease cycles. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For weeks, every economist worth his salt has been saying Congress needed to be bold in crafting the stimulus package needed to revitalize the economy....
A Mississippi conference for agritourism entrepreneurs and those thinking about opening an agritourism business has been scheduled for Feb. 21 at the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Museum in Jackson, Miss....
SOURCE: USA Rice Federation
USA Rice Federation leaders have strongly urged USDA to amend its interim final rule for the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 in time for the 2009 crop year to conform to congressional intent and to limit it to “that which is necessary to implement the specific statutory changes….”...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will address rice producers, millers, merchants, and allied industry leaders during USA Rice Federation’s Government Affairs Conference general assembly Feb. 10 from 9 to 10 a.m....
From the Missouri Soybean Association
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon unveiled his plan to balance the state’s budget and maintain funding for several key initiatives during his first State of the State address in late January. ...
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Nov 5, 2009 10:43 AM
When Mark Keenum became Mississippi State University’s 19th president Jan. 5, he immediately underwent an economic baptism of fire....
Nov 5, 2009 10:38 AM
With the federal deficit growing by billions of dollars daily, Washington observers expect members of Congress to begin taking a much closer look at farm programs in the coming months....
Nov 5, 2009 10:35 AM
Hurried harvesting of wet corn fields may have a long-term effect on soil compaction, said a University of Missouri Extension agricultural engineer....
Nov 5, 2009 10:31 AM
The National Cotton Council of America and other agricultural groups filed a petition for certiorari to the U.S Supreme Court seeking reversal of the Sixth Circuit decision in NCC v. EPA....
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Arkansas farmers on Monday were trying to make the most of a rarity: consecutive days of sunshine. ...
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