By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
I would like to wish everyone in agriculture a healthy and prosperous 2009. Hopefully, it will be better — most assuredly it will be different — than 2008, with its hurricanes, roller coaster commodity and fuel prices and stock market woes. With the events of 2008 still fresh in our minds, here are some thoughts on the coming year....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If cotton prices have, in fact, bottomed out and begun what many hope will be a return to profitability, U.S. cotton producers may owe a debt of gratitude to “friends” in some rather unlikely places. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Twenty-five years ago, in one of the first cotton fields he worked as a researcher, Terry Kirkpatrick asked the grower if he’d ever sampled for nematodes. “He looked at me, serious as could be, and said, ‘I’m not growing soybeans. Why would I want to sample?’”...
USDA has announced details of the final regulation for the mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) program required by the 2002 and 2008 farm bills. ...
To educate cotton producers about options and futures contracts, and what they can do to increase their profitability potential for the 2009 crop season, Cotton Incorporated is holding a free “Hedging with Cotton Options” seminar in Raleigh, N.C., on Jan. 20....
Farmers, agribusiness representatives, and others interested in Mid-South agriculture are marking their calendars for Feb. 27-28, dates for the 57th annual Mid-South Farm & Gin Show, the South’s largest indoor farm show....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As the Farm Press Peanut Profitability Awards Program begins taking nominations for its 10th class of winners, the task of earning the prestigious honor hasn’t gotten any easier, says Marshall Lamb, research leader for the National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Ga., and advisor for the program....
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....
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Nov 20, 2009 11:01 AM
The World Trade Organization has authorized Brazil to seek retaliation against the United States for it support of two U.S. commodity programs....
Nov 20, 2009 10:53 AM
University of Missouri Extension is offering an eight-week online course on managing farm machinery using precision agriculture, Jan. 12 through March 4....
Nov 20, 2009 10:48 AM
Weather problems are now thought to be factored into market prices. ...
Nov 19, 2009 3:57 PM
Mississippi State University agricultural economists calculate Mississippi farmers are suffering an estimated $485 million value loss in 2009. ...
Nov 19, 2009 10:05 AM
If the U.S. is to reach the government-mandated target of producing 36 billion gallons of biofuels annually by 2022, “We will need to change the way we do business,” says a USDA official....
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