By Patti Drapala
MSU Ag Communications
The holiday season is supposed to lift people’s spirits with joy and wonder, but it sometimes triggers feelings of stress and depression....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The subprime mortgage house of cards that brought chaos to the world’s financial sector is also “going to come home to roost” for farmer borrowers in the form of higher interest rates and tighter credit....
A looming global cotton glut and softening demand for textiles have all but stitched up a tighter supply of cottonseed available for dairy cows in 2009....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sen. Blanche Lincoln says farmers in her state of Arkansas and in others shouldn’t give up their efforts to feed and clothe the nation – and the rest of the world – no matter how unappreciated those efforts might seem at times....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
Last week I discussed the importance of controlling barnyardgrass in soybeans as the foundation for a resistance management program in rice....
Anniversaries are exciting times, and peanut farmers will have something special to look forward to when Farm Press Publications and its cosponsors celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Peanut Profitability Awards....
By Tim Pepper
Contributing Writer
Delta farms have become larger and more valuable in the last decade, in the process creating sizeable landowner estates. ...
A soybean plant introduction has been found to show resistance to soybean aphid in Ohio, paving the way to control the insect through new resistant cultivars....
The American Farm Bureau Federation has registered its opposition to an Environmental Protection Agency proposal to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, asserting it would essentially result in new taxes on livestock operations....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The past year has taught cotton analysts one thing — the weather is easier to predict than the cotton markets....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has introduced legislation aimed at establishing stronger standards of openness, transparency and integrity in the trading of swaps and other over-the-counter financial derivatives that have helped bring the nation to the brink of the worst recession in decades....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A broad coalition of food industry, environmental and other “grassroot” organizations are calling on President-elect Barack Obama and Congress to enact legislation phasing out subsidies for ethanol production....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
On Nov. 18, Delta Farm Press spoke with Jeremy Ross, Arkansas Extension soybean specialist. ...
By Larry McClendon
During my tenure as chairman of the National Cotton Council, I have represented the industry in several important meetings across the United States and around the world....
By Tobie Blanchard
LSU AgCenter
Farmers are planting the 2009 Louisiana wheat crop, which will be on significantly fewer acres than the 2008 wheat crop. ...
Producers from Arkansas, Louisiana, 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....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
One of the consequences of falling catfish prices is the removal of ponds from production. ...
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mississippi producers face “a nasty, complicated choice” in analyzing whether to participate in the new Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program or stick with the countercyclical program, says Keith Coble, professor of agricultural economics at Mississippi State University....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
First of all, let me say that I have nothing against the state of Iowa. I have criticized its senior senator, Charles Grassley, but then he’s criticized farmers in the South — unjustifiably....
By Johnny Morgan
LSU AgCenter
Despite a year of hurricanes and insect problems, Louisiana citrus growers are having a very good crop year, according to experts with the LSU AgCenter....
By Rick Bogren
LSU AgCenter
Although gasoline is the fuel of choice for the American automobile, diesel is the fuel of choice for moving freight — whether by truck, train or ship....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
Higher costs and lower selling prices are expected to rob cow-calf producers in Arkansas and the rest of the nation of profits in 2008. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s been a long, strange season for Mid-South cotton growers. ...
USDA’s Risk Management Agency has launched an online resource to aid farmers and ranchers in focusing on how to protect against downside risks, as well as how best to take advantage of upside opportunities in the market....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
It is much easier to talk about potential problems with barnyardgrass resistance in rice than it is to talk about solutions. ...
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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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