The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture presented its second annual Book of the Year award to Leon Hesser for The Man Who Fed the World, his biography of Dr. Norman Borlaug....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Why would the Environmental Protection Agency choose to ignore documents that appear to indicate the Yazoo Backwater Project should have been exempt from provisions of the Clean Water Act?...
John Coccaro and Juan Silva’s leadership and outstanding contributions to their fields have earned them 2008 Outstanding Worker Awards at Mississippi State University....
Nathan Stone, Extension specialist-section leader for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) Aquaculture/Fisheries Center, has received a regional Excellence in Extension Award from the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges....
By Mark Claesgens
LSU AgCenter Communications
When cooks shop for their Thanksgiving meal, they’ll find the cost of the basic dinner items cost more this year but remain affordable, according to LSU AgCenter family economist Jeanette Tucker....
By Linda Breazeale
MSU Ag Communications
Mississippi is a national leader in the production of the sweet potato, a holiday favorite and also one of the most nutritious vegetables available year-round....
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
In a holiday season that can seem only about getting, many parents are looking for ways to teach their children about giving instead....
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....
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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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