By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Late last growing season, Arkansas soybean fields experienced a rash of green bean syndrome cases....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The image of farming as a healthy lifestyle, centered around a lot of body-toning outdoors work and exercise and home-cooked meals of fresh vegetables/fruits and farm-produced meats, is changing — and not for the better....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mid-South farmers are organizing to persuade the U.S. government to overturn a new permanent rule in the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations which eliminates base acres on federally-owned cropland....
A joint meeting of the Arkansas Rice Council and the Arkansas Rice Producers’ Group will be held on Friday, Jan. 30, in Brinkley, Ark. ...
SOURCE: Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
Horses in Arkansas may have been exposed to a contagious disease called contagious equine metritis or CEM, according to the Jeremy Powell, Extension veterinarian for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
A panel of rice industry experts will share the latest in rice farming practices at a free rice farming symposium Feb. 2 at the LSU Extension Building in Crowley, Louisiana....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Representing a team of university and Extension entomologists from Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, Roger Leonard spoke at the recent 2009 Tri-State Soybean Forum....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
Arkansas cotton acreage appears to be poised for another decrease in 2009, as cotton falls out of favor with farmers because of low prices and increased input costs relative to other crops, especially soybeans....
The Tennessee Grain & Soybean Producers Conference will be held Thursday, Feb. 5, in Dyersburg, Tenn....
From the LSU AgCenter
LSU AgCenter scientists will conduct a cotton and feed grain production meeting for Natchitoches and Red River parish growers on Feb. 20 in Natchitoches, La....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is extending the comment period for USDA’s new payment limit rules for 60 days....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The last time I wrote in less than glowing terms about a candidate for a particular job, he was named secretary of agriculture. ...
SOURCE: Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is seeking public comment on changes to a voluntary program that helps landowners restore their land to its natural wetland condition....
SOURCE: USA Rice Federation
Rough rice trade between the United States and Mexico has resumed after having slowed to a trickle beginning mid-December when Mexican officials objected to the presence of a fungus, Tilletia horrid, on the rice. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farming operations leasing federally-owned lands are being told their base acres will be terminated and they will not receive government payments for any crops grown on the land....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. cotton insect losses in 2008 were up slightly from 2007, according to a preliminary Beltwide survey of insect losses compiled by Mike Williams, Extension entomologist at Mississippi State University. ...
SOURCE: USA Rice Federation
In a letter this week, USA Rice Federation and 20 other agricultural and related organizations told President Obama of their willingness to work with him “to bring immediate and full change with regard to U.S. policy toward trade and economic relations with Cuba.”...
Find meetings and conferences in the coming weeks that can help you prepare for the upcoming season....
SOURCE: American Farm Bureau Federation
An economic stimulus bill up for consideration by lawmakers must include investment in programs that will strengthen American agriculture and rural life, the American Farm Bureau Federation said yesterday....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s not news to anyone in farming that crop production has become several orders of magnitude more efficient over the last quarter century, with a vastly reduced impact on the environment....
By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
To get ready for the 2009 crop, many Louisiana rice farmers have been in the classroom learning from LSU AgCenter scientists....
The Monday, Jan. 26, opening session of the National Conservation Cotton & Rice Conference in Marksville, La., will have “three great speakers this year,” said said John LaRose, publisher, MidAmerica Farm Publications....
Producer expertise applied between the rows of a cotton field can go a long way toward making more pounds of lint. ...
Mid-South and Southeastern soybean growers should have ample opportunity to test Bayer CropScience’s new glyphosate herbicide-resistant alternative technology now that the company has officially launched its LibertyLink soybeans....
The biotechnology industry remains firmly opposed to the labeling of food products as “biotech-free” or “genetically engineered-free.”...
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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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