Organic farming not ready for prime time 

Dec 29, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

You have to admire the persistence of the Rodale Institute of Kutztown, Pa....

USDA: $212 million international food assistance 

Dec 29, 2008

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced plans for $212 million in international assistance under Food for Progress in the current fiscal year....

USDA announces new Office Of Ecosystem Services And Markets 

Dec 29, 2008

USDA has announced plans to establish a new USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets and to create a federal government-wide Conservation and Land Management Environmental Services Board to assist the secretary of agriculture in the development of new technical guidelines and science-based methods to assess environmental service benefits which will in turn promote markets for ecosystem services including carbon trading to mitigate climate change....

Designing the perfect weed — Palmer amaranth 

Dec 24, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

If you want to design the perfect weed, start with a blueprint of Palmer amaranth pigweed. ...

2009 Rice Leadership Development class announced 

Dec 24, 2008

USA Rice Foundation Chairman Marvin Hare announced the selection of the 2009 Rice Leadership Development class during the recent USA Rice Outlook Conference. ...

Technology leads way to better textiles 

Dec 24, 2008,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Some dozen years after introduction, farmers have embraced biotechnology as an effective and efficient part of their crop management strategies and can claim reduced pesticide use, decreased trips across fields (and resultant energy savings) and no yield drag from transgenic varieties....

Energy for an energy dependent world 

Dec 24, 2008,

By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist

Some people look at animal manure and see a waste product to be avoided. ...

Pulpwood salvages Mississippi timber 

Dec 24, 2008,

By Patti Drapala
MSU Ag Communications

The continuing decline in housing construction was supposed to decrease the value of Mississippi’s timber harvest for the third consecutive year, but an increase in pulpwood demand kept that from happening....

Promising rice lines in the pipeline 

Dec 24, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The effects of late summer hurricanes played havoc with research trials throughout the lower Mid-South. ...

Obama unlikely to liberalize trade deals 

Dec 24, 2008,

By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff

A more liberalized international trade policy likely will not be an Obama administration priority in his first year in office. ...

Pre-emerge success keeps weed costs down 

Dec 24, 2008,

By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

In several recent articles I commented about $100-per-acre rice weed control programs in situations where excellent initial control is not achieved. ...

Soil fertility management helps ease farming costs 

Dec 24, 2008,

By Patti Drapala
MSU Ag Communications

Mississippi farmers have no control over volatile fertilizer costs, but they can use good soil fertility management to offset the effect on production expenses....

Mid-South Stocker Conference Feb. 24-25 

Dec 24, 2008

“Stocker Solutions for Challenging Times” is the theme for the 2009 Mid-South Stocker Conference scheduled for Feb. 24-25 at the Lake Barkley Resort Park Lodge near Cadiz, Ky....

House hearing: Credit default swaps 

Dec 23, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

As the nation’s economy struggles to regain its footing, those testifying at a House Agriculture Committee hearing on regulating credit default swaps suggested ways those regulations — and clearinghouses for the transactions — could be set up....

Arkansas rice: new umbrella organization 

Dec 23, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Farmers in Arkansas have been growing rice for nearly 100 years, but rice producers and the other segments of the state’s rice industry have never spoken with one voice — until now....

Economist Anderson: 2008 and beyond 

Dec 23, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

For agricultural economist Carl Anderson, the big question over the last year has been whether pogo-ing crop prices indicated a structural shift or just short-term adjustments....

Mid-South Farm & Gin Show 

Dec 23, 2008

In the midst of uncertainty — about the economy, the changing Mid-South agricultural landscape, and input prices — the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show remains a bright spot on the new year horizon....

PowerFlex herbicide for wheat 

Dec 23, 2008

Lower future prices and a recurring basis problem at Mid-South and Southeast grain elevators may have taken some of the luster off soft red winter wheat....

USDA raises payments limit bar 

Dec 22, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

USDA is publishing an interim final regulation that will require individuals and entities to make significant contributions of (1) capital, equipment, land or a combination of those and (2) personal labor or active personal management to be considered “actively engaged in farming.”...

Semi-dwarf rice lines ‘very close’ 

Dec 22, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

In a push to help alleviate continuing water problems in east-central Arkansas, rice breeder James Gibbons is looking at some extremely early rice lines....

Fruitcake? No thanks, but a lot of memories 

Dec 22, 2008,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

I’ve never liked fruitcake. But each holiday season, as the mailorder catalogs arrive, offering the cakes in many variations, long-ago memories are kindled....

World produces another record rice crop 

Dec 19, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

For the fourth year in a row, the world produced a record rice crop. ...

Arkansas wheat: acres fall with price 

Dec 19, 2008,

By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist

What a difference a year makes. A year ago, wheat prices were booming, so Arkansas farmers planted a million acres. ...

Layton: Excellence in Leadership Award 

Dec 19, 2008

Maurice Layton of Mendenhall, Miss., was awarded Farm Bureau’s Excellence in Leadership Award at the organization’s annual meeting in Jackson, Miss....

Syngenta: Flexstar premix herbicide 

Dec 19, 2008

Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., has announced a submission to the United States Environmental Protection Agency for a federal Section 3 registration of a new herbicide for use on soybeans....

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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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