By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It’s been “one of those years” in Mid-South cotton, a little out-of-whack to say the least. The weather has been abnormally dry and many fields have been infested with thrips, plant bugs and spider mites....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Congressional staffers and others who want “just the facts” in the farm policy debate now have a new Web site that can provide up-to-the-minute background information and responses to attacks on the farm bill....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Almost 40 percent of cotton futures are traded electronically these days. How does this impact you as a cotton producer and marketer? You can find out more about this sweeping trend and more at the Cotton Forum in New York City, July 12-13....
The LSU AgCenter has reactivated for the second year an Asian soybean rust hot line so people can call anytime of the day or night, toll-free, to find out the status of this disease in Louisiana. The hot line number is (866) 641-1847....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Environmental Working Group ( http:www.ewg.org) has unveiled a new Web site that purports to reveal the names of at least 350,000 persons who previously have not been identified as recipients of federal farm subsidies....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton industry market analysts were encouraged recently by a Chinese attaché report projecting significant imports for China for 2007-08. But unfortunately, the report’s credibility “seemed to go out the window when USDA discounted the information” (in its May 11 supply and demand estimates), said one analyst....
According to USDA’s June 11 crop progress report, cotton planting is complete in all Mid-South states, but is lagging behind in Oklahoma, which is 69 percent complete. Texas is 86 percent complete and Kansas, 69 percent....
Citing ongoing dry conditions and a rainfall deficit affecting Tennessee, officials with the USDA’s Farm Service Agency and Natural Resources Conservation Service are reminding producers enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program that with a modification to conservation plans, certain CRP stands established to permanent grasses (cool-season and native warm-season grasses) can be cut for hay or grazed....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Arkansas cotton is crawling with thrips. “The current infestation is as bad as we’ve seen in a very long time,” said Gus Lorenz at an Integrated Pest Management meeting in Crawfordsville, Ark., at the end of May....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In its June 11 estimates of world supply and demand, USDA projects higher soybean production for South America due to increased area....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The legs under the Louisiana sugarcane industry aren’t nearly as wobbly as they were a few years ago....
The June 28 field day at the LSU AgCenter’s Rice Research Station, Crowley, La., will offer updates from the field, Capitol Hill and the marketplace. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
House Agriculture Committee leaders are considering reducing the percentage of base acres on which farmers receive farm program payments to help lower spending for the 2007 farm bill....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Known as one of the 10 worst weeds in the world, cogongrass came into the United States through an Alabama port around 1911 as packing material....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. cotton industry has never had to worry much about finding leaders. Leaders have regularly risen through the ranks of farmers — well-versed and respected, knowledgeable of the concerns of the individual grower and comfortable in the spotlight....
A web log, better known as a “blog,” to monitor progression of a 10-acre field of rice at the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station is online for farmers, teachers and anyone curious about the particulars of growing a rice crop....
By Linda Breazeale
MSU Ag Communications
Mississippi dairy farmers have a reason to celebrate dairy month (June), but don’t expect a big party....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The increasing use of U.S. grain as a feedstock for ethanol rather than its traditional use as a feedstuff is expected to have a worldwide ripple effect on trade, commodity prices and hunger relief, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers have been hearing for years that they aren’t getting any younger. Studies show the median age of the nation’s commercial farmers and ranchers to be around 57 years of age and climbing....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC
Last week I wrote that it would be interesting to see if weed control in the later-planted rice would be as easy as in earlier-planted rice. Well, it has not been in the fields I have walked and for farmers who have called me....
By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
Crawfish and rice might seem like a natural fit, but the two agricultural endeavors sometimes conflict, farmers learned at a recemt LSU AgCenter Master Farmer Field Day held at Coteau Holmes, La....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. textile and apparel manufacturers, once the biggest customers for U.S. cotton farmers, have now given up more than 1 million jobs to cotton and manmade fiber imports from China and other textile and apparel-producing countries....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Most farmers are all for simplicity. When you’re fighting weather, heavy clay soils, new technology, low commodity prices and countless other variables, the last thing you want is something to make your life more complicated....
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Mississippi soybeans had one of the most uneven starts they have had in years, but one constant is the need for rain....
By Robert H. Wells
Delta Research and Extension Center
Health care is improving for plants in the Mississippi Delta with the addition of a new Extension plant pathologist at the Mississippi State University Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, Miss....
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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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