By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The chairman and two high-ranking members of the Senate Agriculture Committee are seeking to clarify the 2008 farm bill so farmers can make changes in their farming operations and continue to receive farm program payments....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In the World Trade Organization, a developing nation like China has certain rights that a developed country like the United States does not have. ...
The American Soybean Association will again offer the Secure Optimal Yield (SOY) Scholarship for the 2009-10 school year. ...
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
LibertyLink soybeans have received final approval from the European Commission for importation into the European Union for food and animal feed use....
Cotton producers have only until Oct. 31 to provide input through Cotton Incorporated’s Natural Resource Survey regarding on-farm stewardship of natural resources and how Cotton Incorporated research dollars should be spent to advance global respect for U.S. cotton as the premier natural fiber....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Looks like more of the same next year for U.S. grain producers. ...
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mississippi author David Cohn (1896-1960) achieved a measure of immortality with his oft-quoted observation, “The Delta begins in the lobby of Hotel Peabody and ends at Catfish Row in Vicksburg.”...
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I had a much higher number of calls this season on tighthead or Amazon sprangletop in rice. ...
By Patti Drapala
MSU Ag Communications
Disaster response training will make members of Mississippi State University’s Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine better prepared to respond to major emergency events than they were three years ago when Hurricane Katrina hit....
If you grew up on a farm, nobody has to tell you a farm is a good thing. ...
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
Light crude oil prices are finally dropping, much to the relief of motorists. ...
Registration has opened for the 2009 International Farm Management Congress (IFMA17) which will be held July 19-24 at the Illinois State University Campus in Bloomington/Normal, Ill....
It wasn’t too long ago that a soybean grower in the Mid-South or Southeast wouldn’t even have considered applying a seed treatment to his crop. ...
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Repeated, drenching rains from storms Fay, Gustav and Ike brought Mississippi’s cotton crop from an anticipated above-average yield to one that appears to be average or below. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers who have been frustrated by USDA’s refusal to allow them to reconstitute their operations — no matter how small — to continue to receive farm program payments on all their acres may soon get some relief....
Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain and Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu are hopeful Congress will authorize hurricane disaster relief funding for Louisiana by Sept. 26....
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Mississippi’s soybean crop is getting some “R and R,” but rather than producers having an easy time, their crop is battling seed rot and soybean rust....
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve a bill to increase the transparency, oversight, and anti-manipulation authority over commodity futures and options markets. ...
On Sept. 18, soybean rust was found in Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, and Tallahatchie counties on soybeans in Mississippi and in Prairie, Monroe and Lee counties on soybeans in Arkansas....
Lauren Farms, Leland, Miss., has launched a blog (www.laurenfarms.blogspot.com) to keep in touch with its customers, according to Dolores Fratesi, co-owner of the farm with her husband Steve....
Wildlife watching, fee fishing, fee hunting and horse trail riding as outdoor recreational businesses will be discussed at a Sept. 30 workshop at Richardson’s Tree Farm in Brookhaven, Miss....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Mid-South is showing its neighbors in the Midwest that they are serious competitors in yield. ...
By Mary F. Hightower
University of Arkansas
Hurricane Ike delivered a fresh blow to Arkansas producers trying to pick up the pieces left by the remnants of Hurricane Gustav. ...
The deadline has been extended to Sept. 30 for farmers who need waivers from the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to qualify for federal disaster insurance to help cover their losses from hurricanes Gustav and Ike....
Farmers in Vermilion Parish, La., told Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain this week they need better flood protection from hurricane storm surges while Cameron and Calcasieu cattlemen said they need water and hay for their stranded and stressed cattle....
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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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