By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In modern cotton production, the more factors you can control, the better your potential is for success. Today, cotton producers can control plant growth with plant growth regulators, worms with Bt cotton, lack of rainfall with irrigation, disease with fungicides and so on....
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has said USDA will fully implement President Bush’s directive to offer incentives to farmers and ranchers for opening up their land in the Conservation Reserve Program to the public for hunting, fishing, bird watching and other recreational activities....
A recently completed study concludes that two USDA conservation programs provide benefits on more than 5 million acres of wetland and adjacent grassland habitat in the Prairie Pothole Region, said Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer at a White House conference on North American wildlife policy....
The groundbreaking for Tennessee’s first of its kind pilot-scale cellulosic ethanol refinery will be celebrated with an official ceremony at the site of the future plant Oct. 14, at 2 p.m., at the Niles Ferry Industrial Park, Vonore, Tenn....
Belt SC insecticide (flubendiamide) from Bayer CropScience has been registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for control of several economically important Lepidoptera species in corn, cotton and tobacco....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In the $58 million worth of TV ads with which he’s been blanketing the airwaves in recent months, 80-year-old Texas oilman/entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens comes across as the folksy, worldly-wise, very rich guy that everyone would like to have as a grandfather....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Driving through the rural South how many times have you seen some helmetless, 85-pound kid atop a roaring, full-size ATV that’s moving like a scalded dog?...
Cotton Board members unanimously re-elected to serve one-year terms for the 2009 year are: ...
Wrapping up potentially the most important meeting for the future of wildlife conservation and hunting, the White House announced new incentives to encourage landowners to take part in a wetland restoration effort aimed at establishing bottomland forests, which are extremely beneficial in providing wildlife habitats, restoring wetlands, controlling erosion and promoting carbon sequestration....
Coronet fungicide seed treatment from BASF recently received registration from the Environmental Protection Agency for use on cotton and brassica, bulb, cucurbit and legume vegetables....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Early-season and late-season weather-related disasters badly impacted Mid-South growers. ...
Cotton Belt congressional members joined their colleagues and the U.S. cotton and textile industry in a call to broaden a key textile import monitoring program....
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have identified a plant protein that is a key player in moderating resistance to infectious disease. ...
AgBioworks, an initiative of the Memphis Bioworks Foundation, and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture are sponsoring an alternative crops conference at the Fogelman Executive Conference Center at the University of Memphis, Nov. 12-13, 2008. ...
Becker Underwood will significantly expand the production capacity of its St. Joseph, Mo., facility to meet increasing demand for inoculants for soybeans, peanuts, peas and lentils grown in North America....
The effects of late-season hurricanes have left Louisiana agriculture in a bad spot. ...
By Scott Stiles
Extension Economist
University of Arkansas
Arkansas wheat acreage will decline dramatically in 2009 from the 970,000 acres planted in 2008. ...
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
The Homestead Act gave the Eubanks family 165 acres in 1896, and that acreage — which has grown to 1,000 today and is still in the family — is being farmed in ways that were not even dreamed of 100 years ago....
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced USDA’s plans to purchase up to $5 million of catfish products. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Johnson family farm in Tunica, Miss., has typically been centered around cotton, says Patrick Johnson, who manages the farm’s operations south of Tunica....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Economists are seldom mistaken for good humor men. ...
Congress passed a measure this week designating uninsured sorghum and other crops planted behind failed first crops as ghost crops, meaning that the crop’s revenue will not reduce a farmer’s Supplemental Revenue Assistance Program (SURE) payment....
USDA will distribute $1.8 billion in Conservation Reserve Program rental payments to participants across the country for fiscal 2009, according to Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer....
The special Conservation Reserve Program wildlife habitat practice CP38, also known as SAFE, has been highly successful this year in Arkansas. ...
Louisiana waterfowl hunters should make sure they are following the law when hunting in crop-damaged areas of the state this year, according to a wildlife specialist with the LSU AgCenter....
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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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