By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The National Grain and Feed Association says forcing managed index and pension funds to “take delivery” on commodities such as wheat may be one way to solve the lack of convergence on Chicago Board of Trade futures contracts....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The financial chickens are coming home to roost, but alas, it’s the consumers of chicken that are getting deep-fried in the meltdown....
On Monday, Congress approved provisions to clarify language in the 2008 farm bill that will make it easier for producers to participate in the bill’s disaster assistance program and temporarily suspend the bill’s 10-acre provision, ensuring producers who qualify for farm programs would be able to participate....
By Martha Snyder Taggart
Can one person change the eating habits of a nation? ...
On Monday, Congress passed bipartisan legislation aimed at righting a USDA misinterpretation of the farm bill base acre provision. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Tom Allen has served as Mississippi State University Extension plant pathologist since May, 2007. Previously, he’d worked with the Texas A&M system at the Amarillo, Texas, station on “a fairly rare wheat disease, Karnal bunt....
Crop losses — largely attributable to early- and late-season weather issues — continue to show up as Louisiana producers push deeper into harvest....
Chased from beautiful, bountiful rice fields by wet weather, the crowd at the Clearfield field day in Hickory Ridge, Ark., listened to speakers from under a large tent....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The news from the Louisiana cotton fields keeps getting worse. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Wind and rains generated by a trio of recent hurricanes pushed Asian soybean rust deeper into the Mid-South. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
I was having breakfast with a group of folks that I didn’t know very well when someone asked me what I thought about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
In last week’s Delta Farm Press I wrote about sprangletop — tighthead sprangletop in particular....
According to the latest “Monthly Energy Review” issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration on Sept. 24, renewable energy accounted for more than 10 percent of the domestically-produced energy used in the United States in the first half of 2008....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I continue to get a lot of questions about LibertyLink soybeans. ...
By Tobie Blanchard
Hurricane Gustav dumped 18 inches of rain on Ken Thornhill’s sweet potato fields in Franklin Parish, La. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Tennessee soybean producer of today could be the Tennessee oilseed producer of tomorrow if an initiative to diversify west Tennessee agriculture is successful....
The House passed legislation supported by both parties that would suspend for the 2008 and 2009 crop years a farm bill provision that required producers to have a minimum of 10-base acres to receive program benefits....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As Roundup Ready crops have come to dominate Mid-South agriculture, so have glyphosate-resistant genes come to increasingly dominate a handful of problem Mid-South weeds. Currently, Palmer amaranth, a pigweed, tops the list of worries....
The vice chairman of the National Cotton Council says the three hurricanes that passed through or near Louisiana’s primary cotton regions in August and September came “at the worst possible time” for his farm and those of his neighbors around Newellton, La. ...
An ethanol-fueled spike in grain prices will likely hold, yielding the first sustained increase for corn, wheat and soybean prices in more than three decades, according to new research by two University of Illinois farm economists....
Ron Levy has been named the state soybean specialist for the LSU AgCenter, according to Paul Coreil, LSU AgCenter vice chancellor for extension....
Bob Scott
Extension Weed Specialist
University of Arkansas
I often joke that our number 1, 2, and 3 weeds in Arkansas wheat are ryegrass, ryegrass and ryegrass! Some of this is due to the fact that most of our ryegrass in the state is resistant to Hoelon herbicide (acc-ase resistant)....
Meat and poultry processors and producers can learn more about emerging issues in their industries at an upcoming workshop in Brandon, Miss....
In 2006, Kip Cullers grew 130-bushel soybeans. That gaudy number was followed in 2007 with a yield of over 154 bushels....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Trouble in U.S. and world financial markets is weighing on the cotton market, according to market analysts speaking at the Ag Market Network’s September teleconference....
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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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