U.S. soybean farmers already have one reason to give thanks this fall — 2008 exports of U.S. soy have set another all-time record. ...
The Deep South Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference and Trade Show will be held at the Riverview Plaza Hotel in Mobile, Ala., Dec. 3-4....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
There is good news coming out of Mississippi’s peanut harvest this season....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The University of Tennessee is developing a corn nitrogen calculator which will be available this winter as a link on the UT Web site: ...
Arkansas will host five public meetings about the 2008 farm bill in November at Dumas, Brinkley, Morrilton, Jonesboro and Hope....
U.S. Department of Agriculture says farmers and ranchers will receive $77 million in Emergency Conservation Program funds to repair farmland damaged by natural disasters in 2008....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
President-elect Barack Obama will be sworn into office as the nation’s 44th president on Jan. 20, 2009. ...
By Ford L. Baldwin
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I finished last week’s article with a statement about the increased number of barnyardgrass samples sent in to the University of Arkansas for resistance testing this year....
The North Louisiana Agri-Business Council has begun accepting applications for its Jan. 16-17 Ag Expo Livestock Show....
A landscape short course Dec. 10-12 at Mississippi State University will give professionals and enthusiasts a chance to learn more about plants and their maintenance....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Several years ago a textile mill executive was extolling the virtues of hand-picked cotton from Ecuador. ...
Once this year’s crop is out of the fields, cotton producers can turn their attention to 2009 with a two-day short course in December....
The LSU AgCenter has named Tara Smith research coordinator at its Sweet Potato Research Station in Chase, La....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Fed up with the inability or unwillingness of financial wizards and Wall Street players to speak anything but economic gobbledygook, Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently said he’d pay cash money to anyone able to explain credit swaps and derivatives in layman’s English. ...
A farm economy that’s swung from unparalleled optimism to uncertainty in just a matter of months might appear to be a repeat of two decades ago, but there’s more to the story than meets the eye, said two Purdue University agricultural economists....
Three names have emerged in the first round of speculation about who will be the secretary of agriculture in an Obama administration: ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Now that the voters have spoken — finally — what can farmers anticipate from a Barack Obama administration?...
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Now that the elections are over (praise be!), everyone and his dog will be theorizing what’s going to happen when the new administration and Congress sweep into Washington mid-January....
By Johnny Morgan
LSU AgCenter
The Louisiana sugarcane harvest is in full swing and with some of the best weather conditions to get the job done....
The LSU AgCenter has named Bill Williams as Louisiana weed specialist for agricultural crops....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A wet, windy August finally gave way to a sunny, open fall for Mid-South cotton producers. The result is a harvest which should be complete by mid-November. But yield reports aren’t quite holding up to UDSA projections, according to state Extension cotton specialists. Here’s more:...
The soybean rust fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi may meet its match, thanks to a gene-silencing technique that scientists of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plan to deploy to identify genes that enable plants to naturally resist this fungal foe....
Rice producers from Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana will attend the annual Delta Area Rice Meeting in Cleveland, Miss., at 6 p.m., Nov. 20, at the Bolivar County Extension Service Auditorium at 406 N Martin Luther King Drive....
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Mississippi producers are harvesting the last of a large and generally good soybean crop after a scare from late summer rains that threatened to ruin most of the crop....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When former senators Bob Dole and George McGovern put their heads together to start a program for feeding hungry school children in the late 1990s, they probably never expected to one day sit in the Iowa state capitol and receive a check for a quarter of a million dollars....
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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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