World cotton stocks to shrink 

May 12, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

U.S. and world ending stocks for cotton are expected to shrink in 2009-10, according to USDA’s first assessment of U.S. and world supply and demand for the new marketing year....

Rice production to increase 

May 12, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

U.S. rice production is projected at 224 million hundredweight, 10 percent above 2008-09....

Wheat crop down 19 percent 

May 12, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Total U.S. wheat production is projected by USDA at 2 billion bushels, down 19 percent from last year....

Calling all insect scouts 

May 12, 2009

The Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service will conduct Insect Scout Schools for cotton, soybeans and corn at three locations around the state beginning May 22....

USDA: why rice prices soared 

May 12, 2009,

From USA Rice Federation

A U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service report, Factors Behind the Global Rise in Rice Prices in 2008, attributes the sharp increase in rice prices last year to trade restrictions imposed by major suppliers, panic buying by several large importers, a weak dollar, and record oil prices among other causes....

Obama budget riles farm groups 

May 11, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The Obama administration is continuing to push for a $500,000 cap on direct payments, a new limit on total farm program payments and elimination of cotton storage credits in its budget proposals for fiscal year 2010....

Ag subsidies common worldwide 

May 11, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Ask an American living in the city about U.S. agricultural subsidies and he or she is sure to go on and on about how U.S. farm policy is destroying the livelihoods of poor farmers around the world....

Scout rice for barnyardgrass 

May 11, 2009,

By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

A lot of Arkansas rice has been planted between writing last week’s article and this one. ...

Management for Mid-South tomatoes 

May 8, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

One of the joys of summer, if not life, tomatoes hold sway over home gardeners and commercial producers alike. ...

Beef: balance important goals 

May 8, 2009,

By Miranda Reiman
Certified Angus Beef LLC

Stop trying to get maximum production. No more topping last year’s average daily gains, enough with the peak efficiencies and quit angling for record marbling scores every time....

Safe trucking for agriculture 

May 8, 2009

The American Trucking Associations’ Agricultural and Food Transporters Conference (AFTC) recently released the “Manager’s Guide to Safe Trucking During Agricultural Planting and Harvest Season.”...

NCC: India distorts cotton trade 

May 7, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

During a late April hearing of the International Trade Commission, Gary Adams, a National Cotton Council economist, highlighted some of India’s “increasingly trade-distorting activities: increases in internal support prices, new export subsidy programs, and a continuing governmental assistance to the textile industry.”...

Funding for black farmers lawsuit 

May 7, 2009

The Obama administration’s fiscal 2010 budget proposal will include funds to provide a final settlement for the lawsuit that alleged discrimination against minority farmers in USDA’s farm programs....

India wants us out of cotton? 

May 6, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

There is a big difference between perception and reality when it comes to crop subsidies around the world....

Mississippian to USDA post 

May 6, 2009

President Obama plans to nominate Homer Lee Wilkes, state conservationist for Mississippi, to be USDA’s under secretary for natural resources and environment. ...

LibertyLink soybeans — Korean boost 

May 5, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The recent announcement that South Korea would accept imported LibertyLink soybeans should help remove farmers’ hesitancy to embrace the technology....

Delta Council Day June 12 

May 5, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Blanche Lincoln, a two-term senator from Arkansas and key member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, will be the featured speaker at the 74th annual meeting of the Delta Council at Delta State University, June 12....

World cotton stocks projected higher 

May 4, 2009

Declining mill use is expected to cause another increase in world cotton stocks by the end of the 2009-10 marketing year, the International Cotton Advisory Committee says....

Medium-grain rice in Arkansas 

May 4, 2009,

By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist

Buoyed by good prices, growers of medium-grain rice scrambled over the winter to find enough seed to plant, according to Chuck Wilson, Arkansas Extension rice specialist....

Residual herbicides for Italian ryegrass 

May 1, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Studies conducted at the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, Miss., indicate residual herbicides applied in the fall provide the most efficient control of glyphosate-resistant Italian ryegrass....

Missouri too wet to plant 

May 1, 2009

While farmers wait for dry weather to allow corn planting, heavy rains in the forecast offer little hope of returning to the fields in Missouri anytime soon, said a University of Missouri Extension climatologist....

Older rice herbicide for today 

May 1, 2009,

By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

This year has started off much like 2008 with frequent rains keeping folks out of the field in many parts of Arkansas. ...

Conferees leave safety net intact 

Apr 30, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

House and Senate conferees made no changes in the funding for the 2008 farm bill’s direct payments or export market promotion programs when they agreed on a concurrent budget resolution for fiscal year 2010 Wednesday....

Swine flu: an unfortunate name 

Apr 29, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

With the latest worldwide health scare — this time not SARS or West Nile virus or avian influenza or mad cow, but swine flu (H1N1) — modern technology has proven its efficiency and curse....

Soybean yield bump for seed treatments 

Apr 29, 2009,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Insecticide seed treatments provided a positive return in Mid-South soybeans nearly 80 percent of the time, according to a six-year study conducted by Extension entomologists Gus Lorenz of the University of Arkansas, Roger Leonard of the LSU AgCenter, Scott Stewart of the University of Tennessee and Angus Catchot of Mississippi State University....

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When I received the advance program for the Mississippi Agricultural Consultants Association’s annual meeting and saw a three-hour session scheduled on corn production, with not even a break, I thought, No way!...

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