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....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Now at the tail end of the harvest season, Arkansas’ rice yields are a bit disappointing and its soybean yields surprisingly strong....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Great Wall Street Collapse of 2008 will likely never be mentioned in the same breath with Gustav and Ike, the hurricanes that destroyed so much of Louisiana’s cotton crop in 2008....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As of Oct. 31, the Arkansas rice crop was “probably over” 90 percent harvested, according to Chuck Wilson, Arkansas Extension rice specialist. ...
Increased input costs, tight profit margins and two major hurricanes created a difficult year for many of Louisiana’s agricultural producers....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Economic conditions in the United States and much of the rest of the world could get worse before they get better....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In 2008, Louisiana bumped sweet potato acreage up to approximately 15,000. ...
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Over the past several weeks, gasoline at service stations in our town has fallen more than $1 per gallon, reflecting the slide in world oil prices that saw the commodity lose more than half the $147 per barrel record price it hit in July....
By Carol Sanders
UAPB School of Agriculture
Fisheries and Human Sciences
Animal and public health professionals are aware of the brewing of a “perfect storm” — a human, animal and emerging disease convergence. ...
By Johnny Morgan
LSU AgCenter
LSU AgCenter researchers think the salvinia weevil may be what they’ve been looking for as a way to control giant salvinia — an invasive aquatic species in the state....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The solid South isn’t as solidly Republican as it once was, a fact which could give Barack Obama 55 more electoral votes and help put the Democratic presidential nominee in the White House, a veteran political analyst said....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Extension and land grant universities are warning that a recently discovered provision in the new farm bill will seriously damage their ability to provide needed research and emergency efforts....
“What could you do to reduce your risk of stroke, heart disease and cancer?” asks VeEtta Simmons, Crittenden County Extension agent with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture. ...
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Mississippians know to call the Extension Service with questions about insect pests, row crops or family finances, and thousands turn to the same source for training on a variety of other topics....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The big election is tomorrow, so I don’t know yet which of you will emerge the victor in this seemingly endless campaign for the White House....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
All during the winter of 2005 I wrote that the “weeds are talking… is anybody listening?” ...
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The World Trade Organization has authorized Brazil to seek retaliation against the United States for it support of two U.S. commodity programs....
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University of Missouri Extension is offering an eight-week online course on managing farm machinery using precision agriculture, Jan. 12 through March 4....
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