By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Tennessee soybean producer of today could be the Tennessee oilseed producer of tomorrow if an initiative to diversify west Tennessee agriculture is successful....
The House passed legislation supported by both parties that would suspend for the 2008 and 2009 crop years a farm bill provision that required producers to have a minimum of 10-base acres to receive program benefits....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As Roundup Ready crops have come to dominate Mid-South agriculture, so have glyphosate-resistant genes come to increasingly dominate a handful of problem Mid-South weeds. Currently, Palmer amaranth, a pigweed, tops the list of worries....
The vice chairman of the National Cotton Council says the three hurricanes that passed through or near Louisiana’s primary cotton regions in August and September came “at the worst possible time” for his farm and those of his neighbors around Newellton, La. ...
An ethanol-fueled spike in grain prices will likely hold, yielding the first sustained increase for corn, wheat and soybean prices in more than three decades, according to new research by two University of Illinois farm economists....
Ron Levy has been named the state soybean specialist for the LSU AgCenter, according to Paul Coreil, LSU AgCenter vice chancellor for extension....
Bob Scott
Extension Weed Specialist
University of Arkansas
I often joke that our number 1, 2, and 3 weeds in Arkansas wheat are ryegrass, ryegrass and ryegrass! Some of this is due to the fact that most of our ryegrass in the state is resistant to Hoelon herbicide (acc-ase resistant)....
Meat and poultry processors and producers can learn more about emerging issues in their industries at an upcoming workshop in Brandon, Miss....
In 2006, Kip Cullers grew 130-bushel soybeans. That gaudy number was followed in 2007 with a yield of over 154 bushels....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Trouble in U.S. and world financial markets is weighing on the cotton market, according to market analysts speaking at the Ag Market Network’s September teleconference....
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....
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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....
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....
Nov 20, 2009 10:48 AM
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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