The 2008 Commodity Classic trade show is sold out and a waiting list is in place for additional exhibitors. The trade show, featuring cutting-edge products and services and technological demonstrations, will be the largest in Commodity Classic’s history with 213 companies in 840 booths....
It seems like everywhere you look, there is a new use for soybeans. Now, you may even see a new use for soy in some restrooms....
By Andrea Cooper
College of Forest Resources
Research by scientists at the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station is reaping benefits for Nature’s Catch, the largest pond-based producer of hybrid striped bass in the United States....
By Elton Robinson
Farm PRess Editorial Staff
The new year has brought new optimism to the cotton market — with three top cotton market analysts saying December 2009 cotton futures could easily approach or top a dollar a pound....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Has the drive for more corn acres to produce ethanol caused a spike in U.S. food prices? Despite a year’s worth of noise backing such a connection, new analysis by Informa Economics has found the claims dubious....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
According to USDA’s Jan. 11 crop production report, winter wheat planted area for 2008 is estimated at 46.6 million acres, up 4 percent from 2007....
The cotton market appears poised to begin a long, wild ride toward higher prices over the months ahead....
A special seminar, “What a difference a year makes — energy and agriculture,” will be a highlight of this year’s Mid-South Farm & Gin Show, to be held Feb. 29-March 1 at the Cook Convention Center, Memphis, Tenn....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Mid-South’s move to earlier soybeans hasn’t been without cause. Over the last several years, insect pressure has been steadily building in soybeans....
Robert G. Lemon, Ph.D., professor and Texas AgriLife Extension Service agronomist for cotton with Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, has been recognized by his peers from across the Cotton Belt as the 2007 Extension Cotton Specialist of the Year....
By Bob Ratliff
MSU Ag Communications
Bugs are just pests for most people, but a group of Mississippi State University scientists is working to make insects an important crop....
From the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
Paying too much at the pump has transitioned into paying too much at the feed trough....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Memo to all those groups who say they want to make even more changes to the 2008 farm bill when a House-Senate farm bill conference committee convenes later this month: Forget it....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Last year, with a massive shift to corn contemplated for the South, a big concern was how the crop might be stored. Large storage bags — already used successfully elsewhere in the world — were touted as a potential solution....
By Fred Miller
Arkansas Extension Service
Mid-South rice, soybean, corn and wheat producers are seeing record and near-record high crop prices and agricultural economists foresee the trend holding in 2008....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
It is a lot more fun working with farmers when they feel they have a chance to make a profit going into the year. We recently attended the Rice Outlook Conference in Orlando. I love the meeting because I get to see a lot of farmers early in the year and I do not have any real responsibilities. I can just go and be like everyone else....
By Miranda Reiman
Some economic rules of the last century no longer apply. Dan Basse, president of AgResource Company, says the times are changing and cattle producers should take note....
Ag Adventures, an educational experience in agriculture for fourth graders, will be held Jan. 28-29 at the Northeast District Livestock Show Barn and Civic Center, both in Delhi, La....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA reported lower U.S. corn ending stocks and soybean production from last month and record U.S. rice yields, in its Jan. 11 world supply and demand estimates....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sonny Hatley is one of those folks who, within 15 minutes of meeting, you say, “What’s not to like about this fellow?”...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
One says he would bleed red if you pricked his finger, the other says he bleeds green; but Kenneth Hood and Charles Parker have one thing in common: They both believe the new on-board, module-building pickers could help save the U.S. cotton industry....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It is Democracy in action. Iowa’s presidential caucuses have been criticized for being the starting point of the 2008 elections because the state is too rural, too small and, well, too white....
The 11th Annual National Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference will be held Jan. 21-22 at the Grand Casino Resort Convention Center at Tunica, Miss....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Clint Abernathy hasn’t just accepted technology. He’s embraced it. Drip irrigation, GPS, reduced tillage and transgenic cotton varieties help Abernathy and sons Justin and Jarod improve efficiency on their Altus, Okla., cotton and wheat farm....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It says something about the state of the media in this country that, on the morning after the Iowa presidential caucuses, the lead item on the pre-dawn news segments wasn’t Iowa, but the latest Britney Spears idiocy....
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Dec 3, 2008 10:22 AM
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Dec 3, 2008 10:06 AM
At the long-closed Sack ’n’ Save grocery in our town, the tall, steel pole billboard at their once busy gas station still advertises unleaded gas for $2.14.9 per gallon....
Dec 3, 2008 10:02 AM
By the year 2050, the world population, estimated to top 9 billion, will require twice as much food as today, and water demand will double — possibly stretching the “carrying capacity” of the planet. ...
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A Soybean Production and Planning Meeting will be held Dec. 8-9 at the Leflore County Civic Center in Greenwood, Miss. ...
Dec 3, 2008 9:56 AM
Asgrow has introduced its 2009 class of 24 new high-performing Elites — its newest soybean products designed to deliver uniform plant health and higher yield potential....
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This course covers a wide range of options to effectively control weeds in cotton and reduce the risk of weed resistance management. It is accredited for hours/units for licensed/accredited applicators in 7 U.S. Cotton Belt states (Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina an d Tennessee. CCA credit is pending).
A free American Society of Agronomy-accredited one-CEU course on spray drift management.
This course covers a wide range of options to effectively control weeds in cotton and reduce the risk of weed resistance management. It is accredited for hours/units for licensed/accredited applicators in 7 U.S. Cotton Belt states (Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina an d Tennessee. CCA credit is pending).
A free American Society of Agronomy-accredited one-CEU course on spray drift management.
