By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
President-elect Barack Obama’s announcement of his nominees for agriculture and interior secretaries drew a quick and mostly positive response from members of the agricultural, conservation and environmental communities....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In an atmosphere that could best be described as already funereal following the November presidential election, the announcement by President-elect Obama of his picks for the top environmental and energy posts did little to foster optimism in the agchem sector, or much of agriculture, for that matter....
The board of directors of the American Soybean Association has confirmed Johnny Dodson from Halls, Tenn., as president, and John Hoffman from Waterloo, Iowa, as chairman....
The annual Arkansas Crop Management Conference is scheduled for Jan. 27-30 at the North Little Rock Wyndham Hotel, North Little Rock, Ark. ...
The USA Rice Foundation and Ducks Unlimited have produced a 180-page guide to foster the relationship between wildlife conservation, rice production and the environment....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
President-elect Barack Obama has named former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack to be his secretary of agriculture, saying he will be “fiercely protective of family farms but also forward looking on how we can develop cellulosic ethanol and harness wind and solar power to boost rural economies.”...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth pigweed swelled from rare to everywhere in west Tennessee in June 2008, University of Tennessee weed Larry Steckel was as surprised as anyone....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I have been writing on the theme “the weeds are talking, is anybody listening?” ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A single, precisely aimed shot from Jimmy Wood’s 12-gauge stopped the 16,000-pound beast dead in its tracks, and its lifeblood began to squirt from a steely vein....
In your editorial concerning the circumvention of the retail boycott of Uzbek cotton (Delta Farm Press, Nov. 7, 2008) you mention that some of your peers consider “this a born-50-years-too-soon moment” and that when you were young you “spent a lot of Saturdays and after school time helping my grandfather pick his cotton in the 1950s,” implying that the situation in Uzbekistan is analogous to what many of your peers have been through....
As grain production has become more popular there’s also been much talk from farmers regarding storage. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. textile manufacturers can begin signing up for the Economic Adjustment Assistance Program that Congress included in the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 to help stabilize the textile industry....
Over 1.5 billion bushels of soy, valued at more than $12 billion, were exported from the United States this year, according to the United Soybean Board....
Ag Expo 2009, sponsored by the North Louisiana Agri-Business Council, will be held Jan. 16-17 at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in West Monroe, La. ...
Will McCarty of Starkville, Miss., was named the winner of Farm Bureau’s Distinguished Service Award for 2008 at the organization’s annual meeting on Dec. 7....
Agricultural Research Service scientists have released a new early-ripening rabbiteye blueberry cultivar that, when grown with other blueberry varieties, will extend the growing and harvesting season in the U.S. Gulf Coast region....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy has decided against holding a mid-December ministerial meeting that some said would have been aimed at trying to wrap up the Doha Round before a new U.S. administration takes office....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If you have a high speed Internet connection and want to while away some time on a dreary winter day, go to youtube.com, type “agriculture” in the search window, and scan some of the 17,500 or so videos that are offered....
Tractor sales in the United States for 2009 are expected to be strongest for 4-wheel-drive tractors and the 100-horsepower-and-over 2-wheel drive tractors, with Canadian sales strongest for 2-wheel-drive tractors in the under-40-horsepower range, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers in its annual forecast for U.S. and Canadian agricultural machinery sales, a snapshot of manufacturers’ predictions for 2009 business....
The 2008 Bootheel Irrigation Conference and Tradeshow will be held Dec. 16 in Rone Hall at the University of Missouri Delta Center in Portageville....
C.J. Naquin of Baton Rouge, La., a retired Louisiana 4-H state program leader, was one of 17 people named to the 2008 National 4-H Hall of Fame....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
Last week I wrote about Command and how we will continue to depend on it as our first line of defense for barnyardgrass control in conventional and (in my opinion) Clearfield rice....
By Patti Drapala
MSU Ag Communications
While Elvis Presley had a “Blue Christmas” in mind when he recorded his 1957 seasonal hit, today’s environmentally conscious consumers think of “going green” for the holidays....
Views and visions on Louisiana forestry will be presented at the 2009 Ag Expo Forestry Forum sponsored by the LSU AgCenter in conjunction with the North Louisiana Agri-Business Council....
By Mark Lange
The world cotton market is replete with subsidies across the entire spectrum of producing countries, large or small, developed or developing. ...
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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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