By Gene Milus
Wheat Pathologist
University of Arkansas
Rainy weather during April and May promoted a low level of Fusarium head blight, also called “scab”, across Arkansas wheat fields in 2008. ...
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
Arkansas farmers are expected to plant significantly fewer acres of wheat this fall because of the nation’s economic climate....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Who among us doesn’t remember HAL, the ever-so-human, laid-back computer that oversaw every function of the spaceship and crew in Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece movie of Arthur Clarke’s book, 2001?...
According to USDA’s latest crop progress report, 40 percent of the U.S. cotton crop is now harvested, compared to 47 percent a year ago and a 5-year average of 45 percent....
The National Corn Growers Association nominating committee is encouraging growers who are NCGA members to apply for positions on the Corn Board. ...
By Mark Claesgens
LSU AgCenter Communications
More than 8 million identity thefts have occurred in recent years, according to the Federal Trade Commission. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
While hybrid catfish provide many benefits and much promise for Southern aquaculture, they do present several unique challenges — challenges researchers are determined to find solutions for....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
You knew it was bound to happen. For two years, farmers have watched with amazement while corn and then soybean and wheat futures rose into uncharted territory as short crops and ethanol demand fueled wild speculation in the commodity markets....
A change in the way applications for the Wetlands Reserve Program will be evaluated should make a good thing even better, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service says....
In Old West movies, gunslingers had to be quick on the draw. ...
After an extensive interview and selection process, the Memphis-based Cotton Board announces the hiring of four Regional Communications Managers to serve as direct links to the Cotton Research & Promotion Program for U.S. cotton producers and ginners across the four production regions of the Cotton Belt....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A million acres too much here and there added up to up to an embarrassing moment for USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service in late October. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The world financial crisis has done more than send everyone’s 401-K plans into a near-death experience. It’s delivered a severe blow to consumer confidence....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Nov. 4 presidential elections could do more than determine the path of the United States for the next four years. They could also determine the future of the Doha Round, a former U.S. Trade Representative said....
In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, the National Cotton Council, the National Council of Textile Organizations, AMCOT, the American Cotton Shippers Association and the American Cotton Producers conveyed serious concern about the delay in publishing the regulation necessary to implement the cotton provisions of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008....
After a long history of futures and options open outcry trading, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange is closing its trading pits effective Dec. 19, 2008. The decision to make the transition to exclusively electronic trading was unanimously approved by the MGEX board of directors and is pending MGEX ownership approval....
The USA Rice Outlook Conference will be held Dec. 7-9 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock, Ark. The annual conference features a trade show as well as educational sessions focusing on key issues for rice farmers and the U.S. rice industry....
Mexico has the potential to increase its imports of distiller’s dried grains (DDGS) with solubles by four-fold, according to Julio Hernandez, U.S. Grains Council director in Mexico and Central America, speaking at the Council’s International Distillers Grains Conference in Indianapolis, Ind....
The future of the U.S. cotton industry continues to rely on new talents and fresh perspectives. ...
Advan LLC has became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sipcam Agro USA, Inc. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As in the rest of the nation, the rural United States is facing increasingly expensive health care options....
The U.S. ethanol industry will continue to grow in 2009, creating a substantial increase in the supply of distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of ethanol, according to Ken Hobbie, president and CEO of the U.S. Grains Council....
Information on fertilizer supply and demand, seed technology and the current food price situation will be on the agenda at The Fertilizer Institute’s Fertilizer Outlook and Technology Conference, Nov. 11-13 in Charleston, S.C....
Catfish feed delivered in the United States during September 2008 totaled 105,656 tons, down 19 percent from September 2007 and 10 percent below the previous month....
Cheminova has moved the headquarters for the ANZAC Region, which includes Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada, and the headquarters for Cheminova, Inc., to Research Triangle Park, N.C. ...
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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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