By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Time may be of the essence as Mid-South farmers begin harvesting the 2007 corn crop. But experts say taking time to properly prepare and adjust your combine before harvest can pay big dividends....
Darrin Dodds has been named Mississippi’s new cotton specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service....
The proposed route of Interstate 69, a new highway that will eventually connect Mexico and Canada, could have a devastating effect on Louisiana’s pecan industry, because it goes through the LSU AgCenter’s Pecan Research and Extension Station near Shreveport, La....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
On the heels of a lower estimate of planted area reported last month, USDA reduced its estimate of the size of the U.S. cotton crop to 17.5 million bales — a drop of 1.3 million bales — in its July 12 crop production report....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns still believes farmers will face new payment limit rules in the next farm bill, including a provision that those making more than $200,000 in adjusted gross income will be ineligible for farm program benefits....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In another venue, it might have been considered high drama: The House Agriculture Committee chairman debating a farm policy “expert” at the Washington Post. Instead, Rep. Collin Peterson and Dan Morgan, the author of a series of articles critical of the 2002 farm bill, were only talking during a telephone conference call....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
The rice crop sure seems a lot further along than normal. This has caught a lot of growers off guard on growth stage for timing midseason herbicide applications....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If you have on-farm grain storage, irrigation capability and/or have had ample rainfall this season, plenty of combines with corn headers are parked in the shed and your crop didn’t freeze on Easter and have to be replanted, you certainly don’t have as much to worry about when fall corn harvest rolls around, save for a wayward hurricane or two....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Most of the Mid-South cotton crop has now reached the squaring stage, according to USDA’s crop progress report for the week ending July 8, with most states at 90 percent or above....
By Linda Breazeale
MSU Ag Communications
Mississippi’s rice may be on track for another strong yield, but it will be on fewer acres....
“Orchestrating Your Opportunities” is the theme of the 2008 Beltwide Cotton Conferences set for Jan. 8-11 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville. The National Cotton Council is the primary coordinator of the conferences....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA’s June 29 downward adjustment of soybean planted acreage could provide just enough of a spark to get November soybeans moving toward the $9 mark, according to an analyst speaking at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange teleconference on USDA’s acreage report....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As if it weren’t enough that Greenpeace, PETA, and other anti-farm groups blame agriculture for every ill known to man, now comes the respected Audubon Society with the pronouncement that “the spread of industrialized agriculture” is a major reason for a sharp decline in the population of “common birds.”...
Elizabeth Hood is an expert at breaking down walls and taking stuff apart. But she prefers enzymes and microscopes to bulldozers and wrecking balls to do the job, a talent that Mid-South farmers should find interesting when she speaks at the AgTechnology Field Day, July 19, at Agricenter International in Memphis....
How much of an impact did the Easter freeze and other unusual weather patterns have on the Mid-South corn crop? Some growers can access a new tool that will help them determine how soon their crop will be ready for harvest....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says the difference between the budget environment for the 2002 and 2007 farm bills is like night and day. Now it’s becoming obvious the same could be said for his and Rep. Collin Peterson’s views on payment limits....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Service
Are farmers setting themselves up for a serious increase of an old pest by growing corn like crazy in Arkansas? Well, yes and no, according to Terry Kirkpatrick, Arkansas Extension plant pathologist....
A newly released survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows the livestock industry is increasingly embracing distillers grains as a source of nutrition, the National Corn Growers Association says....
USDA will donate about $50 million worth of government-owned bulk commodities to U.S. food processors in exchange for further processed agricultural products that will be distributed through domestic and international food assistance programs....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Plant bug numbers remain extremely high in parts of the Mid-South and, with the cotton canopy about to close, farmers are scrambling to gain control over the pest....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns expressed disappointment that the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management rejected most of USDA’s suggestions for revamping the commodity title in the 2007 farm bill....
The University of Tennessee has appointed two researchers to direct the $48.9 million Tennessee Biofuels Initiative....
One new sugarcane variety released earlier this year and two sugarcane varieties released last year will be featured at the LSU AgCenter’s annual sugarcane field day July 18 at the Sugar Research Station in St. Gabriel, La....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Tracy Browning wanted to drive a tractor. What happened 14 years ago made it darn near impossible....
Thousands of disabled farmers in 21 states will have access to education and assistance to continue farming through the recent funding of more than $3.7 million for “AgrAbility” projects, says Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns....
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Jul 23, 2008 10:21 AM
This year, there are some 1.4 million acres of rice in Arkansas. Given the new chemistries available, researchers say it’s surprising that growers continue to find more fields of propanil-resistant and Facet-resistant barnyardgrass....
Jul 23, 2008 10:18 AM
The National Cotton Council has closed the doors on one era and opened the doors to another. ...
Jul 23, 2008 10:15 AM
Another well-known Mid-South brand will soon disappear into the new world of corporate mergers. ...
Jul 23, 2008 10:10 AM
Louisiana’s agriculture and forestry commissioner is challenging the residents of his state to eat local for one week....
Jul 22, 2008 9:45 AM
After years of being primarily a horticultural pest, Japanese beetles are emerging as a threat to field crops across Missouri, said Wayne Bailey, University of Missouri Extension entomologist....
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