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. ...
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. ...
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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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Weather problems are now thought to be factored into market prices. ...
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Mississippi State University agricultural economists calculate Mississippi farmers are suffering an estimated $485 million value loss in 2009. ...
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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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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).
Keeping crop protection chemicals on the crop for which they are intended has been a cornerstone of farming not only to protect neighboring crops, but to not waste money allowing products to drift off the intended target. This accredited online continuing education course covers the critical elements of spray drift management.
