By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I recently had a busy week for a retired guy. ...
Tickets for the North Louisiana Agri-Business Council’s Ag Expo 2009 are on sale. ...
USDA’s Farm Service Agency has begun signup for the Milk Income Loss Contract program....
Slated for Jan. 15, the 92nd annual meeting of the Arkansas Seed Growers Association will be held at the Brinkley Convention Center, Brinkley, Ark....
BASF is strengthening its wheat portfolio with TwinLine, a cereal fungicide powered by pyraclostrobin, the active ingredient in Headline fungicide and a unique triazole....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Water and energy are the two most fundamental resources of modern civilization and demands for each are increasing at what may be an unsustainable rate....
By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
U.S. rice industry leaders met recently for the USA Rice Federation Outlook Conference with one eye on the economy and the other peering at the prospects for the 2009 crop....
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....
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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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