By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
Last week I wrote about the need to control barnyardgrass before it emerges. ...
The following letter, dated Dec. 4, was sent to Arkansas fish farmers by Ted McNulty, director of the aquaculture division at the Arkansas Department of Agriculture....
Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., has been named a “Friend of Farm Bureau” for her work championing agricultural legislation in the 110th U.S. Congress....
Corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers who attend the 14th Annual Commodity Classic, Feb. 26-28, in Grapevine, Texas, will “discover bright horizons.” ...
“In the best interest of U.S. soybean farmers,” the board of directors of the American Soybean Association has voted unanimously to ask the secretary of agriculture to order an investigation and financial audit of the National Soybean Checkoff Program....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The current fall production area for harvest for the leading fresh-market vegetables in the United States is expected to decline from a year earlier. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In a bid to protect valuable crops — whether row type, vegetables, or fruit and ornamentals — producers have increasingly turned to fungicides. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers may find potentially profitable opportunities by capitalizing on consumers’ demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables....
David Waide, a row-crop and cattle producer from West Point, Miss., was re-elected to his seventh term as president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation at the organization’s recent annual meeting in Jackson, Miss....
Stoneville says its cotton seed varieties are recognized for their early emergence and seedling vigor, and this year, growers and consultants are seeing the advantage at harvest....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. rice farmers have moved a giant step closer to putting the genetically engineered LibertyLink-trait controversy behind them....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Over the years, as grain margins have been crunched or pressured, many elevator facilities have relied more heavily on fertilizer divisions for profit....
According to Dan Keefe, U.S. Grains Council manager of international operations for distiller’s dried grains with solubles, U.S. DDGS exports are likely to recover in January, rebounding from a sluggish fourth quarter....
Agricultural producers from Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi will have an opportunity to hear the latest in soybean research during the 2009 Tri-State Soybean Forum Jan. 9 at the Thomas Jason Lingo Center in Oak Grove, La....
The National Corn Growers Association and BASF Corp. are helping to combat the rising cost of higher education and help future farmers and current producers looking to sharpen their skills in the classroom....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Congressman John Salazar, D-Colo., appears to have moved to the top of the list of the candidates to become secretary of agriculture in the Obama administration....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With the world demanding more grain and the United States demanding more biofuels, this nation’s rural landscape and infrastructure are being transformed....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Dealing with “surplus” stocks of commodities has often been a contentious issue for farmers and government officials, but USDA appears to have found a way to move those stocks without having an adverse impact on crop prices....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
How many Farm Press readers cut back on the amount of food they consumed for their Thanksgiving dinner? ...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved amendments to the Chicago Board of Trade’s wheat futures contract. ...
The world’s cotton-consuming countries are expected to import less cotton in the coming months as the executives who run their textile mills try to figure out how to survive in a time of decreasing demand for textile and apparel products....
From the U.S. Grains Council
Australia’s first imported sample of U.S. distiller’s dried grains with solubles, a co-product of U.S. ethanol production, successfully cleared inspections Dec. 3 after arriving at the Port of Melbourne on Nov. 25. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Thirty-five years ago this month, President Richard Nixon declared the country would be energy independent in a mere seven years. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Vegetable crops may offer row crop farmers a means of spreading production risks while tapping into an emerging market niche — consumer demand for locally grown produce....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It won’t come as a surprise to those who grow them, but a recent USDA report reveals the cost of producing vegetables and melons has risen significantly, by about 32 percent from 2004 to 2006....
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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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