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. ...
SOURCE: American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition
By a vote of 65-31, the U.S. Senate rejected an amendment offered by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would have stripped the requirement to buy American for all spending covered by the stimulus package now being considered by Congress....
Agriculture specialists will address management of pests in peanuts, grains, pine trees, cattle, blueberries and landscapes during a day-long workshop on Feb. 10 in Raymond, Miss....
By Steven H. Scott
Scott & Associates Agricultural Marketing, Inc.
On May 21, 2008, seven soybean futures contracts were traded at the Board of Trade in Chicago. ...
SOURCE: USA Rice Federation
USDA’s Farm Service Agency has issued guidance for the 2009 crop year apportionment of long- and medium-grain rice base acres for counter-cyclical payment purposes....
The University of Tennessee’s Cotton Focus will be held Thursday, Feb. 12, in Jackson, Tenn....
From USDA
In late January, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation and the state of Arkansas have entered into a new Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) agreement to reduce nutrient, bacterial and sediment loading in the Illinois River Watersheds....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
There is renewed interest in several areas of soybean weed control. ...
Mid-South producers are being reminded by USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) Jackson, Miss., regional office that final sales closing dates for 2009 Multi-Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) are approaching....
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The World Trade Organization has authorized Brazil to seek retaliation against the United States for it support of two U.S. commodity programs....
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University of Missouri Extension is offering an eight-week online course on managing farm machinery using precision agriculture, Jan. 12 through March 4....
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Mississippi State University agricultural economists calculate Mississippi farmers are suffering an estimated $485 million value loss in 2009. ...
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