Two veteran Extension specialists and a veteran public relations specialist are combining their efforts to form a new company aimed at assisting industry in developing and effectively transferring new technologies and products to the marketplace....
U.S. farmers and their commodity organizations won’t have to spend as much time defending farm programs from claims they’re no longer needed because of high grain prices this year....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
American Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman says his organization is eager to work with the new Congress and President-elect Barack Obama’s new administration to do whatever it takes to help get the country back on its feet....
The 12th annual National Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference is scheduled for Jan. 26-27 and will be held in Marksville, La. ...
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Extensive, lingering rains have turned much of Mississippi into a soggy mess while replenishing rivers and lakes and recharging groundwater stores....
By Ann Perry
ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists at the National Sedimentation Laboratory in Oxford, Miss., are studying how farming practices and conservation strategies can improve water quality in the Yazoo River Delta and beyond....
Most Southeast and Mid-South weed scientists agree cotton producers need to put down one or more residual herbicides to help control glyphosate-resistant or soon-to-be-resistant Palmer amaranth or pigweed....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Had Barack Obama possessed a magic crystal ball more than two years ago when he started his run for the presidency, and could have foreseen the mess he would inherit come Jan. 20, 2009, he might well have run screaming for the exits....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. cotton producers may be taking it on the chin in the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round, but it might be even worse if they didn’t have strong, articulate spokesmen to defend them....
A group of cotton industry experts have named C. Dale Monks, professor and Extension cotton specialist with Auburn University, as the 2008 Extension Cotton Specialist of the Year. ...
U.S. retail food prices at the supermarket decreased slightly in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. ...
The new United Sorghum Checkoff Program board of directors has approved a contract with the National Sorghum Producers as the management entity for the USCP....
For 2009, Syngenta Seeds is expanding its Agrisure line-up with 91 new corn hybrids. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Times are tough in the cotton industry, but cotton producers have overcome challenges in the past and can do so again if they will stick together, the winner of the 2009 High Cotton Award for the Southwest says....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Statistics tell a troubling story for the U.S. ethanol industry. In its Dec. 11 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, USDA projected lower U.S. corn use mostly due to reductions in ethanol use and corn exports. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Producers shouldn’t spend too much time waiting for the next miracle herbicide to come along. ...
Despite greater scrutiny of imported aquaculture commodities by U.S. authorities, there continue to be concerns that tainted products make it through inspection....
The 12th annual National Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference is slated for Jan. 26-27 in Marksville, La....
The Mississippi County, Ark., Cooperative Extension Service will hold the 2009 Cotton Production Meeting Feb. 3 at the Northeast Research and Extension Center in Keiser, Ark....
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Soybeans rode increased acres and high prices to a second straight year as Mississippi’s top row crop, increasing 15 percent to bring an estimated $604 million to producers in 2008....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
Ready or not, it is time to start a new year. ...
In the midst of ongoing uncertainty about the economy, the changing Mid-South agricultural landscape, and input prices, the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show remains a friendly, familiar gathering spot for thousands throughout the southern United States, according to Timothy L. Price, show manager....
By Rick Bogren
LSU AgCenter
Researchers at the LSU AgCenter’s Audubon Sugar Institute are combining their knowledge of sugarcane processing and chemical engineering to develop a synergy between sugar production and ethanol....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The National Cotton Council spent much of 2008 providing Congress with information relevant to developing a workable farm bill and trying to stave off bad trade policies....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton producers have become accustomed to having their prices whipsawed by events on the other side of the world. ...
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Nov 6, 2009 2:56 PM
A wetter-than-normal growing season has cut into Arkansas’ farm receipts by more than $224.8 million as of Nov. 1, according to a preliminary report issued by the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
Nov 6, 2009 11:13 AM
Cotton losses due to record rainfall during September and October in Mississippi totaled $71 million by early November, or nearly half the value of the expected crop, according to the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce....
Nov 6, 2009 11:02 AM
The only Louisianan on the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Bill Cassidy tries to keep his state’s agricultural interests at the forefront....
Nov 6, 2009 10:57 AM
Before continuing with my pigweed control articles, I have tried to think of something encouraging to say about trying to get a crop out with the weather we are having. ...
Nov 6, 2009 10:54 AM
I was greatly disappointed in Morgan Freeman’s recent comments referring to the base stock of this state as a mule-headed bunch of farmers (see Behind the curtain: ‘mule-headed farmers’?). ...
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