By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate leaders have agreed to allow members from both parties to offer a maximum of 20 amendments each to the farm bill so the Senate can complete work on the measure before it adjourns for the year....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Many Mid-South farmers would confess to having some anxious moments when rain began falling in mid to late October, potentially disrupting plans for increasing their acres of winter wheat....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Compared with a year earlier, fall season (primarily October through December) area for harvest of 11 selected fresh-market vegetables (excluding melons) is expected to be up 5 percent this year to 154,300 acres, according to USDA’s latest Vegetables and Melon Outlook....
The general session of the 2008 Commodity Classic promises to be one of the most dynamic ever with a lineup highlighted by Charlie Cook, who will deliver the keynote address via satellite. Cook, widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading authorities on U.S. elections and political trends, will provide insight into the upcoming U.S. elections....
Harvesting is the most expensive part of producing crawfish, so reducing that cost can mean the difference between profit and loss, according to Robert Romaire, LSU AgCenter aquaculture specialist, who spoke at the 2007 Crawfish Farmers Association 2007 Expo at Rayne, La....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed another motion to limit debate and the number of amendments that can be offered to the 2007 farm bill and bring the measure to the Senate floor....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A presidential veto of a farm bill would be “a tragic policy error and a monumental political error,” says Larry Combest, former chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee....
Over 660 Farm Bureau members, representing Mississippi’s 82 county Farm Bureaus, recently met in Jackson, Miss., electing officers and directors and adopting policies to guide the organization’s efforts during 2008. Policies relating to national issues will be forwarded to the American Farm Bureau Federation for consideration at its annual meeting, scheduled for New Orleans in mid-January....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Senate passed the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, one of a series of bilateral trade pacts the Bush administration is pushing in the absence of any significant progress on the WTO Doha Round negotiations....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA announced it would be unable to make partial 2007-crop-year counter-cyclical payments for wheat, barley or oats because market prices for those crops are higher than the trigger price for such payments....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If current population trends continue, our world will face the challenge in the next 10 to 15 years of feeding another China, or about another 1 billion people. Most of that growth will not be in the United States, but provides an ideal market for U.S. farmers....
How America eats is changing how cattle producers raise their stock, says Gerald Alexander, Hempstead County, Ark., staff chair for the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
Nutritious, high-quality hay is important if you want your hay burner to be healthy, says Steve Jones, associate professor/equine specialist with the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service....
A long-time volunteer leader with the Mississippi 4-H Program is the state’s newest member of the national organization’s Hall of Fame....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
At current prices, the proposed National Sorghum Checkoff would nearly double what Arkansas sorghum producers currently pay in state-collected checkoff fees, while cutting by half funds passed back to the state, according to the Arkansas Farm Bureau and the Grain and Sorghum Producers of Arkansas....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
A first-time rice grower in Pope County, Ark., has a new university record, and beginner’s luck had nothing to do with it. The secret of the farmer’s success may lie in large part to the use of poultry litter, according to Stewart Runsick, an Extension coordinator for the University of Arkansas Rice Research Verification Program (RRVP)....
Cow performance should be evaluated at least once a year, and fall is a great time to take a hard look at the cowherd and make culling decisions if necessary. Jeremy Powell estimates culled cows make up about 20 percent of the cowherd income on an annual basis....
Six more scientists have been inducted into the LSU AgCenter’s Patent Club, an elite group that now includes 52 researchers who have received patents or plant variety protection certificates....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Seems like just the other day farm organizations were saying they would be perfectly happy if Congress would simply change the date on the 2002 farm bill to 2007 and call it done....
Farmers can fine-tune their farming operations with information to be offered at at the 11th annual National Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference, to be held Jan. 21-22....
By Bob Ratliff
MSU Ag Communications
Several students at Mississippi State University are excelling in a field that did not even exist when they were born....
Acting USDA Secretary Chuck Conner has announced the names of members of the new Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate leaders appeared to be edging closer to an agreement on the number of amendments that could be offered for the new farm bill as Congress returned to Washington from its Thanksgiving break....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Labor is a “contentious, ostentatious, ornery issue, and one of the most contrary and thought-provoking in agriculture today,” says Dan Bremer of AgWorks, Inc., a Lake Park, Ga., firm that specializes in acquiring temporary workers for agriculture and other industries....
The Animal Science section of the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service has developed a searchable CD that is being offered free to Arkansas livestock producers and for a small fee to producers outside the state....
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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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