Hundreds of 4-H volunteers from across Arkansas will meet to share ideas for their local programs during the Arkansas 4-H Volunteer Forum Nov. 9-10 at the C.A. Vines Arkansas 4-H Center. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Vivyan Adair was on welfare when she entered North Seattle Community College in 1986. Although she was a high school dropout and the single mother of an infant daughter, Adair persevered, eventually earning a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1997....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When Danny and Eddie Dunigan retire from their northeast Arkansas crop consulting business in a few years, they’re not going to worry about a drop off in service for the farmers they serve. They’ve been training their own replacements for 20 years....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The senator who helped give U.S. farmers Freedom to Farm is introducing legislation that would once again overturn most of the counter-cyclical payment and marketing loan provisions of the 2002 farm bill....
Mississippi cotton growers can mark their calendars for the Mississippi State University Extension Service’s 24th annual Cotton Short Course to be held Dec. 11-12....
Benton County, Ark., bermuda hay producers will host their 10th annual Quality Forage contest with an open invitation to producers from throughout Arkansas and neighboring states to submit hay samples....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The House voted to override President Bush’s veto of the $23-billion Water Resources Development Act of 2007 by a vote of 361-54. It was the president’s fifth veto since taking office and the first to be overturned by the House....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Wheat prices are high, so farmers in south Louisiana are curious about pairing the grain with sugarcane....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The new average crop revenue (ACR) option and a permanent disaster program may be attracting much of the attention, but the Food and Energy Security Act of 2007passed by the Senate Agriculture Committee has plenty of other features....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Several weeks into Louisiana’s sugarcane harvest, there are reports of good yields but lower sugar content....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Calling it the “last chance for real farm bill reform,” 71 conservation, environmental and anti-poverty groups sent a letter to members of the U.S. Senate, urging them to vote for the Dorgan-Grassley payment limit amendment when the farm bill comes to the floor....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Curious to see what impact the shift from cotton to corn has had on Louisiana, several LSU AgCenter economists have been scouring and studying data. Their formal findings are expected soon in a peer-reviewed paper....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
Many Arkansas corn and grain sorghum farmers will look back on 2007 with fondness. And why not? Prices were something to smile about, and yields were nothing short of remarkable....
A Kentucky company has received incentives for a rural community biorefinery project integrating feed, food and fuel production....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With the Senate expected to take up a new farm bill the week of Nov. 5, farmers were growing hopeful the legislation could be enacted in time for them to incorporate it into their plans for the 2008 crop year....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mid-South cotton yields have been disappointing for some and surprising for others so far this harvest season....
By Paul Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s farm bill time again, a time when organizations like the Environmental Working Group trot out their one-trick pony telling us that just 10 percent of America’s largest and richest farms are collecting three-fourths of federal farm subsidies, and that most of those cash payments are promoting harmful environmental practices....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
On a recent stunningly beautiful, deliciously pleasant autumn afternoon, I did something I haven’t done in a long, long while — absolutely nothing....
By Nathan Buehring
Mississippi Extension Rice Specialist
As the 2007 rice crop comes to an end, cultivar selection decisions for 2008 are at the forefront. The number of rice cultivars to choose from is small compared to soybeans and corn, but cultivar selection and placement are key components in maximizing yields and returns....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sen. Tom Harkin says he expects at least one more attempt will be made to divert money from direct payments to conservation, rural development and nutrition programs when the Agriculture Committee-passed farm bill goes to the Senate floor....
By Forrest Laws and Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
President Bush has nominated former North Dakota Gov. Edward T. Schafer to be secretary of agriculture, once again reaching outside mainstream agriculture to select a relative unknown to be the administration’s chief agricultural spokesman....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For many Mid-South cotton producers, the growing season begins in early January, in the meeting rooms and halls at the annual Beltwide Cotton Conferences, where new technologies and cultural practices are discovered and discussed, where farmers exchange ideas and friendships are made and renewed....
As America’s corn farmers harvest the largest crop in history, the National Corn Growers Association and its state affiliates have launched a new Web site and video contest to thank them for their efforts....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Since late summer, Ed Twidwell has been busy answering Louisiana farmers’ wheat-related questions....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
“Buy federal crop insurance.” For years, that’s been the mantra of the ag committees in Congress. If farmers could be persuaded to buy enough coverage, the argument went, Congress would no longer have to pass ad hoc disaster assistance bills....
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Jul 24, 2008 10:31 AM
Senators Tom Harkin of Iowa and Richard Lugar of Indiana have introduced legislation aimed at addressing one of the valid criticisms of ethanol production — the lack of an economical way to move the renewable fuel to major markets....
Jul 24, 2008 10:28 AM
U.S. negotiators this week announced a new offer of a $15 billion cap in the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks on the broadest level of U.S. farm supports called overall trade distorting support or OTDS, according to a report from USA Rice Federation....
Jul 24, 2008 10:22 AM
Every year, Eric Webster receives many calls on Newpath and Roundup drift. “The glyphosate drift is primarily in northeast Louisiana,” said the LSU AgCenter weed scientist at the recent field day at the Rice Research Station in Crowley, La....
Jul 24, 2008 10:18 AM
Several weeks ago, traps showed large numbers of bollworm moths in Arkansas — including one in Jefferson County with more than 1,000 moths — but egg and worm numbers haven’t developed in cotton as expected, according to Scott Akin, Extension entomologist with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
Jul 24, 2008 10:15 AM
A bill that will relieve farmers and ranchers from undue burdens and regulations when they transport their crops and livestock across state lines has the support of the American Farm Bureau Federation....
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