The effects of late-season hurricanes have left Louisiana agriculture in a bad spot. ...
By Scott Stiles
Extension Economist
University of Arkansas
Arkansas wheat acreage will decline dramatically in 2009 from the 970,000 acres planted in 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....
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced USDA’s plans to purchase up to $5 million of catfish products. ...
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....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Economists are seldom mistaken for good humor men. ...
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....
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....
The special Conservation Reserve Program wildlife habitat practice CP38, also known as SAFE, has been highly successful this year in Arkansas. ...
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....
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. ...
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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....
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University of Missouri Extension is offering an eight-week online course on managing farm machinery using precision agriculture, Jan. 12 through March 4....
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Weather problems are now thought to be factored into market prices. ...
Nov 19, 2009 3:57 PM
Mississippi State University agricultural economists calculate Mississippi farmers are suffering an estimated $485 million value loss in 2009. ...
Nov 19, 2009 10:05 AM
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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