By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When a researcher from a state that annually plants 13 million acres of corn speaks, farmers generally listen. Researcher Emerson Nafziger, professor of crop sciences at the University of Illinois, had plenty of attentive ears, if you will, when he discussed corn planting for information-hungry producers attending the Conservation Tillage Cotton and Rice Conference in Tunica, Miss....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
A couple of articles ago, I wrote that this would be the highest risk crop that most Arkansas farmers have planted. The outlook is excellent, but the input costs are far above what we have ever experienced....
By Duane Dailey
Cooperative Media Group
University of Missouri
With a doubling in price for glyphosate, pre-emergence herbicides for soybeans have become price competitive, says Kevin Bradley, University of Missouri Extension specialist....
Monsanto says it will invest up to $196 million to increase capacity at its glyphosate-manufacturing facility in Luling, La. The Luling plant expansion is expected to be completed in the first half of the company’s 2010 fiscal year....
The National Corn Growers Association has asked members of the U.S. House of Representatives to protect the focus of the National Plant Genome Research Program on crops that are “agronomically important” — plants grown to bring value back to the consumer and the taxpayer, as stated in the program’s original intent and mandate....
Mid-South cotton producers participating in this year’s Cotton Foundation Producer Information Exchange will tour operations in Arizona and California June 22-27. The National Cotton Council recently announced all dates and locations for the 2008 program....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As all sides continue to jostle over a new farm bill, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is an enthusiastic member of the scrum....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As of late March, USDA officials tasked with carrying out President Bush’s farm bill wishes were unwilling to bend on several issues. Raising taxes and large program funding increases are particularly unacceptable. Legislators have been warned that any bill produced must hew to the president’s desires or it will be vetoed....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s kinda like an economic version of Alice in Wonderland — while U.S. financial empires are crumbling, public confidence in the economy is spiraling downward, ominous mutterings about recession and even depression are heard, and the Fed desperately attempts to shore up the banking system, most major agriculture sectors are enjoying unprecedented favor....
Cotton and other natural fibers will be celebrated around the globe following a declaration by the United Nations General Assembly proclaiming 2009 the International Year of Natural Fibers....
By Howell Medders
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
“Just a bunch of briars, but some sophisticated ones at that,” John R. Clark likes to say about the blackberry varieties developed in the breeding program he directs for the University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture....
The 2008 LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station’s Rice Cam will show a number of images of a seed production field planted in the Catahoula variety. ...
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Well before planting time, the fight against Asian soybean rust is already under way in Mississippi as sentinel plots are planted and genetic resistance to the disease is being developed....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
US. catfish sales totaled $445 million in 2007, down 8 percent from $484 million the previous year, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana accounted for 94 percent of the total U.S. sales....
The ups and downs of late winter and spring-like weather have made things difficult for Arkansas beef cattle producers....
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will hold a public meeting April 22 in Washington, D.C., to “discuss recent events affecting the agriculture markets — including the lack of convergence between the futures and cash prices, higher margin requirements and the impact on market participants, and the role of speculators and commodity index traders.”...
U.S. retail food prices at the supermarket increased in the first quarter of 2008, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Market Basket Survey. The informal survey shows the total cost of 16 basic grocery items in the first quarter was $45.03, up about 8 percent or $3.42 from the fourth quarter of 2007....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The squeeze on the nation’s soybean seed supply is not loosening....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. producers, taken aback by high nitrogen costs and spurred on by good soybean prices, intend to plant 18 percent more soybean acres this spring, according to USDA’s March 31 Prospective Plantings Report. The higher acreage comes mostly at the expense of corn, down 8 percent from last year....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
Farmers along the Arkansas River, its tributaries and other rivers on the eastern side of Arkansas are waiting nervously for the floodwater covering their wheat to drain away....
The Arkansas Agriculture Department is accepting grant applications from Arkansas catfish farmers who suffered feed losses from natural disasters during the period from Feb. 28 through Dec. 31, 2007....
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is informing landowners in middle Tennessee that they may be eligible for the Conservation Security Program. Farmers and other landowners living in the Red River and the Upper Duck River watersheds may apply for funding through NRCS....
The 11th annual Louisiana 4-H Foundation Golf Tournament will be held April 4 at the Tamahka Trails Golf Club in Marksville, La....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In the coastal areas southwest of New Orleans, La., Asian soybean rust is likely to pop up anywhere each and every spring. It’s up to Blaine Viator, a Plattenville, La., consultant, to make sure that the disease does not cause economic damage for his clients....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee — and chair of the Production, Income Protection and Price Support Subcommittee — Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln has been in the thick of crafting a new farm bill. When she spoke with Delta Farm Press on March 20, the Democrat expressed frustration with the seeming “snail’s pace” in the bill’s final phase of deal making. However, she said good legislation was still possible by mid-April. Among her comments:...
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Dec 3, 2008 10:22 AM
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At the long-closed Sack ’n’ Save grocery in our town, the tall, steel pole billboard at their once busy gas station still advertises unleaded gas for $2.14.9 per gallon....
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By the year 2050, the world population, estimated to top 9 billion, will require twice as much food as today, and water demand will double — possibly stretching the “carrying capacity” of the planet. ...
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