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....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. rice production is projected at 224 million hundredweight, 10 percent above 2008-09....
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....
The Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service will conduct Insect Scout Schools for cotton, soybeans and corn at three locations around the state beginning May 22....
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....
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....
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....
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. ...
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. ...
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....
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.”...
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.”...
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....
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....
President Obama plans to nominate Homer Lee Wilkes, state conservationist for Mississippi, to be USDA’s under secretary for natural resources and environment. ...
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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. ...
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....
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....
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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Mar 12, 2010 9:53 AM
The gulf between the general public and those who understand what is required in modern agriculture appears to be widening....
Mar 12, 2010 9:47 AM
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!...
Mar 12, 2010 9:42 AM
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to shift farm export expansion efforts from a “one-size-fits-all” approach based on world geographic regions to strategies tailored to specific market needs....
Mar 12, 2010 9:36 AM
The Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network is conducting March Madness 2010 to recruit volunteers for measuring precipitation and Mississippi State University researchers are recruiting participants for the program....
Mar 12, 2010 9:28 AM
Farmers growing corn and soybeans in 2010 should start considering the challenge of marketing the beans, according to market-plan ideas from a University of Missouri crop economist....
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