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New rice lines, new genetics and milling concerns

Sep 5, 2007,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Extremely hot, dry weather could mean milling troubles for some of the Arkansas rice crop....

Arkansas testing corn storage bags

Sep 5, 2007,

By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist

The University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service is evaluating the effectiveness of a promising new technology for temporarily storing corn in the field to help farmers during harvest....

Prussic acid poisoning a threat to livestock

Sep 5, 2007,

By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
ljames@uaex.edu

Forage producers need to be concerned about prussic acid poisoning when grazing sorghum-sudan hybrids, johnsongrass, grain sorghum or sudangrass, according to Mark Keaton, a Baxter County agent for the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service....

Agribusiness: rice hybrids fending off diseases

Sep 5, 2007

Rice hybrids may be a lot like the old Timex watches. They can take a licking from diseases such as sheath blight and keep on ticking, producing higher yields than conventional varieties in the process....

The cost of buying on the cheap

Sep 4, 2007,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

It’s a perfect time, a reader writes, “for farm groups to push the ‘Grown in America’ concept — when you can’t even trust China to paint a kid’s toy safely....

Prettiest rice stands can come up short

Sep 4, 2007,

By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

I recently received one of those telephone calls that make your day when you are in the business of making recommendations....

Freeze may set back corn yield contest winner

Sep 4, 2007,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The Easter freeze that struck the Mid-South in April gave many corn and wheat growers a severe headache. For Kip Cullers, the freeze may have cost him a chance to repeat as the top producer in the National Corn Growers’ National Corn Yield Contest....

Monsanto seed patent ‘rejections’ leave questions

Sep 3, 2007,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Last February, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected a Monsanto patent related to the company’s dominant biotech seed business. On July 24, the office rejected three more....

Harkin going to the mat for CSP

Sep 3, 2007,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

For months, farm groups have been gearing up for a fight over the more contentious sections of the new farm bill. Direct payments, counter-cyclical programs, payment limits all were expected to challenge....

Developing drought-tolerant soybeans

Sep 3, 2007,

By Larry G. Heatherly
www.soydoc.com

Developing drought-tolerant plants continues to be a goal of plant breeders and crop specialists. Through research, much has been discovered about plant processes affected by drought and how that effect is manifested in crop growth and yield response....

RCCP: Disaster assistance without the wait?

Aug 31, 2007,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Farmers unhappy that USDA took nearly six months to begin sign-up for the latest disaster program wouldn’t have had to wait so long if they could access a revenue counter-cyclical program, the National Corn Growers Association said....

Louisiana’s first suspected resistant pigweed

Aug 31, 2007,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Louisiana’s Catahoula Parish is the latest site for a suspected glyphosate-resistant pigweed in the Mid-South....

In search of the corporate farm

Aug 31, 2007,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

If U.S. farm programs are cut or diminished somewhere down the road, one reason will be because agriculture’s detractors will have been successful in defining U.S. farm policy as a struggle between the so-called corporate farm and the family farm, the haves and the have nots....

Arkansas cotton besieged by insects

Aug 31, 2007

Arkansas’ cotton growers have a triple headache this year due to insects, weeds and hot temperatures, says Tom Barber, Arkansas Extension cotton specialist....

A lot of water in strong cotton crop

Aug 30, 2007,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Even Justin Gathright himself was a little surprised when he checked his records for when the farm started watering cotton this year. “June 4. Yeah, that’s pretty early, isn’t it? But there just wasn’t any moisture out there.”...

Delta Council: fund Mississippi ginning lab

Aug 30, 2007,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The Delta Council’s board of directors has approved a resolution urging Congress to provide full funding for the USDA Cotton Ginning Laboratory at Stoneville, Miss....

Using pre-emergents to manage resistant weeds

Aug 30, 2007,

By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

The University of Arkansas has announced the confirmation of Command-resistant barnyardgrass. I have written in several articles that I see Palmer pigweed resistance in the row crops and barnyardgrass resistance in rice as the two biggest herbicide resistance threats (for the immediate future) in Arkansas....

Hake to lead Cotton Incorporated research

Aug 30, 2007

Cotton Incorporated, the producer and importer-funded research and promotion arm of the cotton industry, has named Kater Hake as its new vice president for agricultural research....

China’s bale-counting troubles

Aug 29, 2007,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Bullish factors for cotton prices in the coming months include lower world stocks, a deficit between world consumption and production and the need for the United States to increase cotton acres in the midst of high grain prices, according to Gary Adams, vice president for economic policy development, National Cotton Council....

USDA: Crop Disaster Program sign-up starts Oct. 15

Aug 29, 2007,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Sign-up for the 2005, 2006 and 2007-Crop Disaster Program will begin Oct. 15, USDA announced. The Agriculture Department said the sign-up for livestock disaster programs will start earlier and the sign-up for the quality loss portion of the CDP will start sometime later....

Sorghum prices respond to EU demand

Aug 29, 2007

U.S. sorghum prices have been on the rise in response to growing demand from Spain, with sorghum trading at a premium to corn on the international market, according to the U.S. Grains Council....

Projected U.S. rice yield close to record

Aug 28, 2007,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

USDA’s Economic Research Service is projecting a U.S. rice yield for 2007-08 of 190.4 million hundredweight, 2 percent smaller than the 2006 crop....

Economic repercussions of new cotton/corn mix

Aug 28, 2007,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Corn may be king in the Mississippi Delta this year, but it remains to be seen what will be the impact on the area’s economy as a result of the large-scale decline in cotton acres....

Switchgrass forum Wednesday in Tennessee

Aug 28, 2007

The Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation and the University of Tennessee will host an educational public forum on the UT Biofuels Initiative and switchgrass production on Wednesday, Aug. 29, at the Morristown campus of Walters State Community College, 500 South Davy Crockett Pkwy., just east of Knoxville. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. in the Judge William H. Inman Humanities Complex Theater, Room 147....