Far from the main roads and deep in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, you’ll find the farm of Claude Gibson “Gibb” Steele III. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers in Africa routinely battle situations that would be their Western counterparts’ worst nightmares: an almost total lack of an infrastructure for transporting crops, bureaucratic red tape at border crossings, government purchasing monopolies, AIDS…....
The National Corn Growers Association and several of its state affiliates have prepared a computer program that performs detailed benefit analysis of producer operations under traditional farm programs versus the new optional Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program....
In the year ahead, U.S. farmers will probably continue to realize fairly strong cash receipts, but by the same token they will see significant increases in input costs. ...
Farm-raised catfish processed during September 2008 totaled 39.7 million pounds round weight, up 1 percent from September 2007....
The North Mississippi Research and Extension Center will have new leadership beginning Nov. 1 from Cary “Bill” Herndon, a longtime Mississippi State University agricultural economist....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Before deciding whether you want to sign up for the farm bill’s new ACRE program, or stick with the counter-cyclical program, be sure to do your homework, says John Robinson, Texas A&M Extension economist for cotton marketing....
Farm Press and Monsanto Company have launched an online educational course on weed resistance management that offers continuing education credit/units for licensed applicators and Certified Crop Advisers in seven key Cotton Belt states....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
Farmers are trying to wind up what has been a most difficult year. ...
Westendorf Manufacturing has added to its line of Cat Claw 3D grab forks, now designed to fit the company’s heavy-duty Custom Contour and Freedom Mount buckets with 4-inch square tube top rails....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Inevitably, Arkansas’ late-planted rice crop has led to a late harvest. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture hasn’t exactly been on the front burner of the 2008 presidential elections....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If it’s true that that there’s nothing new under sun, one day in the future we might read the following newspaper account:...
Cotton farmers who have said they wanted a choice when it comes to the companies that provide herbicide-resistant traits in their new varieties may soon get their wish....
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced the appointment of 13 members, 13 alternates and 1 non-voting consumer advisor to the Cotton Board. ...
Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer has appointed a board of directors for the national Sorghum Promotion, Research and Information Program, or national sorghum checkoff....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Deltapine brand of upland cottonseed was the most popular planted in the United States for the 2008 season, according to the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service’s Cotton Program....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
This country might be better run if all the members of Congress, those in high government office, corporate CEOs, and others in exalted positions would do weekly grocery shopping....
DuPont has unveiled an advanced technology the company said will transform seed research and considerably speed up the development of higher yielding corn and soybean varieties....
Harvest is lagging behind in much of the United States, but growers are starting to make some progress as good weather days have outnumbered the bad ones....
USDA has approved 2009 operation budgets for the Cotton Board and Cotton Incorporated. ...
Compiled by Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mergers and acquisitions involving several seed companies in 2007 are behind us now, but numerous challenges still lie ahead for cost-conscious cotton producers, who are demanding high-yield, high-quality varieties that perform across a wide range of environmental conditions and stresses....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In late September, it was estimated that Louisiana had sustained $700 million in hurricane damage to its agriculture and forestry industries....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s the issue that just won’t go away....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Louisiana sugarcane harvest won’t be nearly as sweet after hurricanes lashed the state. ...
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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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