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....
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....
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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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