Louisiana rice industry donates to Food Bank 

Oct 10, 2008

The Louisiana rice industry donated 12,000 pounds of rice to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank in recognition of National Rice Month and Hunger Action Month in September....

Agribusiness summit brings leaders to New Orleans 

Oct 10, 2008

Dozens of agricultural leaders from throughout Louisiana met recently in New Orleans to discuss ways to help make the state’s agricultural industry competitive in the 21st century....

Syngenta’s Endigo insecticide registered for soybeans 

Oct 10, 2008

Syngenta Crop Protection has announced that the Environmental Protection Agency issued a Section 3 registration for the use of Endigo insecticide on soybeans....

Changing crop mix benefits cotton producer 

Oct 10, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

As high grain prices and skyrocketing fertilizer costs continue to drive Mid-South cotton acreage to lower levels, you wouldn’t think much positive would come of it. ...

Farm Press’ Laws recognized for work 

Oct 9, 2008

Forrest Laws, associate publisher for Penton Media’s Farm Press publications, was among those recognized when the Mid America CropLife Association honored industry, media, and academic leaders at its recent annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind....

Dry weather spells relief for Arkansas farmers 

Oct 9, 2008,

By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist

After heavy spring rains and flooding delayed planting, then hurricanes damaged crops late in the season, the weather has generally been good as Arkansas farmers begin wrapping up a stressful year. ...

Louisiana soybean yields disappointing 

Oct 9, 2008

Ray Schexnayder farms 1,800 acres of soybeans in Louisiana’s Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge parishes. Hurricanes Gustav and Ike left his fields scattered with tree limbs, and some covered with water....

Yield potential down, but spirits up for pecan crop 

Oct 9, 2008,

By Patti Drapala
MSU Ag Communications

The spring freeze, summer drought and fall hurricane season of 2008 may have affected yield potential in many Mississippi pecan orchards, but industry watchers remain cautiously optimistic about the crop....

Feeding cattle difficult following hurricanes 

Oct 9, 2008

The LSU AgCenter is working closely with the Louisiana Cattlemen’s Association, state Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the Louisiana Farm Bureau to get affected cattle producers back on their feet along coastal Louisiana following hurricanes Ike and Gustav....

Strain works to help Louisiana farms recover 

Oct 9, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Mike Strain, Louisiana commissioner of agriculture, has been a busy man since hurricanes ruined much of his state’s crops and infrastructure. ...

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....

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WTO awards Brazil retaliation authority

Nov 20, 2009 11:01 AM

The World Trade Organization has authorized Brazil to seek retaliation against the United States for it support of two U.S. commodity programs....

Precision ag – online course

Nov 20, 2009 10:53 AM

University of Missouri Extension is offering an eight-week online course on managing farm machinery using precision agriculture, Jan. 12 through March 4....

Soybeans — U.S. key export supplier

Nov 20, 2009 10:48 AM

Weather problems are now thought to be factored into market prices. ...

$485 million loss – Mississippi

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Mississippi State University agricultural economists calculate Mississippi farmers are suffering an estimated $485 million value loss in 2009. ...

Biofuels goal beyond ethanol

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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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