AgriThority: technology transfer  

Jan 13, 2009

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....

Gloomy forecast for prices 

Jan 12, 2009

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....

Farmers eager to work with Obama 

Jan 12, 2009,

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....

National Conservation Systems Conference Jan. 26-27 

Jan 12, 2009

The 12th annual National Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference is scheduled for Jan. 26-27 and will be held in Marksville, La. ...

Rains leave Mississippi soggy 

Jan 12, 2009,

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....

Careful land management protects Mississippi watersheds 

Jan 12, 2009,

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....

Monsanto expanding residual herbicide rebates 

Jan 12, 2009

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....

Remedying country’s ills likely to be slow, painful 

Jan 9, 2009,

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....

McClendon gets high marks on Doha briefing 

Jan 9, 2009,

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....

Dale Monks: Cotton Specialist of Year 

Jan 9, 2009

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. ...

Retail food prices drop slightly 

Jan 9, 2009

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. ...

Sorghum checkoff approves management contract 

Jan 9, 2009

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....

Syngenta: New Agrisure 3000GT corn hybrids 

Jan 9, 2009

For 2009, Syngenta Seeds is expanding its Agrisure line-up with 91 new corn hybrids. ...

High Cotton winner urges industry to pull together 

Jan 8, 2009,

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....

Ethanol problems cut corn use 

Jan 8, 2009,

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. ...

Fewer new chemicals chasing resistant weeds? 

Jan 8, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Producers shouldn’t spend too much time waiting for the next miracle herbicide to come along. ...

Arkansas senator concerned about imported aquaculture 

Jan 8, 2009

Despite greater scrutiny of imported aquaculture commodities by U.S. authorities, there continue to be concerns that tainted products make it through inspection....

Cotton & Rice Conference Jan. 26-27 

Jan 8, 2009

The 12th annual National Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference is slated for Jan. 26-27 in Marksville, La....

Arkansas Cotton Meeting Feb. 3 

Jan 8, 2009

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....

Soybeans top crop in Mississippi 

Jan 8, 2009,

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....

Hat’s off to farmers who persevere 

Jan 7, 2009,

By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

Ready or not, it is time to start a new year. ...

Feb. 27-28 Farm and Gin Show: new technologies 

Jan 7, 2009

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....

New ethanol crops for Louisiana farms 

Jan 7, 2009,

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....

Cotton Council defends farm program 

Jan 6, 2009,

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....

Economic crisis squeezes cotton 

Jan 6, 2009,

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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Arkansas loss near quarter billion dollars

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....

Cotton: a lot on the ground

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....

Rep. Cassidy: rethink conservation efforts

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....

Residuals in LibertyLink program

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. ...

Letter: Mule-headed bunch of farmers

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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