By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
You have to admire the persistence of the Rodale Institute of Kutztown, Pa....
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced plans for $212 million in international assistance under Food for Progress in the current fiscal year....
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....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If you want to design the perfect weed, start with a blueprint of Palmer amaranth pigweed. ...
USA Rice Foundation Chairman Marvin Hare announced the selection of the 2009 Rice Leadership Development class during the recent USA Rice Outlook Conference. ...
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....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
Some people look at animal manure and see a waste product to be avoided. ...
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....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The effects of late summer hurricanes played havoc with research trials throughout the lower Mid-South. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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....
“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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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.”...
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....
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....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For the fourth year in a row, the world produced a record rice crop. ...
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. ...
Maurice Layton of Mendenhall, Miss., was awarded Farm Bureau’s Excellence in Leadership Award at the organization’s annual meeting in Jackson, Miss....
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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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....
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....
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....
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. ...
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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