By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A tiny grub — often small as a pinhead — is busy denuding large chunks of central Arkansas rice fields. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Six years ago, fewer than 4,000 acres of peanuts were planted in Mississippi, hardly worth a mention by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. ...
By Duane Dailey
University of Missouri
Government biofuel policies affect fuel and farm commodity prices, but the price of a barrel of oil can have even larger effects....
Missouri corn and soybean producers should scout hard for brown sting bugs and bean leaf beetles. ...
The rising cost of fertilizer has many growers looking for ways to become more efficient in nitrogen placement, and that’ll be one of the timely topics covered during the Delta Research and Extension Center’s 2008 Agronomic Crops Field Day, scheduled for July 17 in Stoneville, Miss....
In what may be only the tip of the iceberg, crop condition ratings for the U.S. corn crop continue to slide incrementally....
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Farmers know what it’s like to roll the dice and hope for good weather, low costs and high profits, but the stakes this year for corn producers are higher than usual....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Pete Nelson and Hillary Spain are looking for a few good west Tennessee farmers — 25 to be exact — to participate in a new initiative to connect farmers to new and developing bioindustries....
A delegation of Chinese soybean buyers which included Chinese vice-premier Wang Qishan has signed an agreement to purchase an estimated $4.5 billion of U.S. soybeans....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It may seem counterintuitive that, coming off last fall’s record-high U.S. corn production, supplies of corn and other feed grains are extremely tight. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If Pan Gen Global’s plans are carried out, Arkansas rice straw and hulls will soon be the feedstock for ethanol and silica sodium oxide. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The squeeze on world grain stocks will continue at least for several years. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Pascal Lamy, the World Trade Organization director-general, says the U.S. Congress passed a bad farm bill, one that sends the wrong “signal.” ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The ink isn’t dry on the final version of the 2008 farm bill (President Bush was expected to veto the full bill passed by the Senate June 4 within a few days, and the House and Senate were expected to vote to override once again.)...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In 2006, after honeybees abandoned hives in massive numbers, beekeepers began sounding an alarm that gained volume in 2007 when the mass exodus and die-off of bees picked up speed. ...
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
To say that a shortage of Newpath early into the rice growing season was a frustrating thing for a lot of people would be a gross understatement. ...
USA Rice Federation will provide industry members with an overview and explanation of key provisions of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 at three educational meetings scheduled June 18 and 19 in south Louisiana....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The possibility that the last drop of petroleum fuel will combust into oblivion in as few as 75 years worries Randy Powell....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
One of the primary authors of the 2008 farm bill is turning his attention to trying to find out why fertilizer prices have gone into the stratosphere in recent months....
By Steven Scott
Scott & Associates
As a professional marketing advisor with over 30 years of hard-earned marketing experience, I thought I knew something about managing risk....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
No matter whether climate change is a concern of epic proportion or a gigantic hoax, the reality is that weather influences — drought, cold, heat — are a problem for agriculture every year....
Green construction continues to be a growing trend in the United States. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA is projecting a smaller U.S. corn crop of 11.7 billion bushels, down 390 million from May based on lower expected average yields of 148.9 bushels per acre....
By Bob Scott
Extension Weed Specialist
University of Arkansas
With our wheat crop is basically made for the year, now may seem like a strange time to write about wheat weed control. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
With prospects for a record 2008-09 world wheat crop looming over the market, wheat prices are likely to trend lower in the short-term, barring unforeseen production or harvesting problems, says analyst Jon Marcus, Lakefront Futures, Chicago, Ill....
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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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