Cotton bollworms: 660/organic cotton: zero 

Oct 8, 2008,

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....

USDA to launch public access initiative for CRP 

Oct 8, 2008

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....

Study highlights benefits of CRP and WRP programs 

Oct 8, 2008

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....

Cellulosic ethanol plant to break ground 

Oct 8, 2008

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....

Bayer CropScience: new Belt SC insecticide 

Oct 8, 2008

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....

T. Boone’s energy gospel 

Oct 7, 2008,

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....

ATV safety focus of children’s essay contest 

Oct 7, 2008,

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 names officers for 2009 

Oct 7, 2008

Cotton Board members unanimously re-elected to serve one-year terms for the 2009 year are: ...

Increased enrollment incentives for reforestation 

Oct 7, 2008

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....

BASF’s Coronet: broad-spectrum protection of cotton seed, seedlings 

Oct 7, 2008

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....

Louisiana: post-hurricane insurance, contract concerns 

Oct 6, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Early-season and late-season weather-related disasters badly impacted Mid-South growers. ...

U.S. seeks monitoring of Chinese textile imports 

Oct 6, 2008

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....

Rice protein moderates resistance to infectious disease 

Oct 6, 2008

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have identified a plant protein that is a key player in moderating resistance to infectious disease. ...

Alternative crops conference Nov. 12-13 in Memphis 

Oct 6, 2008

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 expand inoculant production capacity 

Oct 6, 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....

Strain tells Senate of hurricanes’ devastation 

Oct 3, 2008

The effects of late-season hurricanes have left Louisiana agriculture in a bad spot. ...

Outlook for 2009 wheat production in Arkansas 

Oct 3, 2008,

By Scott Stiles
Extension Economist
University of Arkansas

Arkansas wheat acreage will decline dramatically in 2009 from the 970,000 acres planted in 2008. ...

Rural acres give first-class produce 

Oct 3, 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....

USDA to purchase up to $5 million of catfish 

Oct 3, 2008

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced USDA’s plans to purchase up to $5 million of catfish products. ...

Tradition less of a factor in planting decisions 

Oct 3, 2008,

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....

Difficult trend for U.S. cotton 

Oct 2, 2008,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Economists are seldom mistaken for good humor men. ...

Congress approves ghost crop designation 

Oct 2, 2008

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....

$1.8 billion in CRP rental payments 

Oct 2, 2008

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....

GreenTrees and CRP-SAFE demand high in Arkansas 

Oct 2, 2008

The special Conservation Reserve Program wildlife habitat practice CP38, also known as SAFE, has been highly successful this year in Arkansas. ...

Hunters should use care in crop-damaged areas 

Oct 2, 2008

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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Arkansas loss near quarter billion dollars

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....

Cotton: a lot on the ground

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....

Rep. Cassidy: rethink conservation efforts

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....

Residuals in LibertyLink program

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. ...

Letter: Mule-headed bunch of farmers

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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