By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
For the most part, Mother Nature has provided U.S. commodity producers with a good mix of moisture and sunshine this season, resulting in projected records for soybean production and corn yield. ...
By Jody Falletta-Carman, USA Rice Federation Director for Latin America and Caribbean Programs
One hundred and one years ago the first shipload of Japanese immigrants landed in Brazil to fill jobs on coffee plantations. ...
Source: National Corn Growers Assn.
With rolls listing 36,378 growers at the end of August, the National Corn Growers Association now enjoys record membership....
Planning for the disposition of the family farm or business can be an emotional task, but experts say planning is key to ensuring the future of the family’s land or business....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Importing countries are certainly taking a liking to current U.S. soybean prices, a fact reflected in USDA’s Sept. 11 World Supply and Demand Estimate forecasting record U.S. exports this marketing year....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA estimates of U.S. cotton exports have risen slightly from August, a result of decreased foreign competition from India....
Source: National Corn Growers Association
The National Corn Growers Association is urging growers to contact the Environmental Protection Agency with their comments on the expanded Renewable Fuel Standard regulations, known as RFS II. ...
On a recent day, around 100 Winfield Solutions seed and agronomy advisors braved the wet weather and muddy conditions which beset so much of north Mississippi this year to learn the latest information on soybean, corn and cotton in research plots just north of Tunica, Miss....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Implementing a new farm law always comes with the tedious task of developing and implementing the rules and regulations necessary for the program to run as smoothly as is possible....
Soybean rust is continuing to develop and spread throughout much of the Arkansas Delta and is not showing any signs of slowing down, reports Scott Monfort, Arkansas Extension Plant Pathologist....
By Dale Miller, Editor, National Hog Farmer
In separate news releases, the U.S. Grains Council and the Renewable Fuels Association cite the USDA’s World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) released last week as evidence that American crop farmers are capable of producing ample corn supplies to meet the needs of domestic food, livestock feeds and renewable fuels....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The United States produce industry, the entire food production system, in fact, can look for increased emphasis on food safety from the Food and Drug Administration and the USDA with a focus on handlers....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
As harvest activity increases around the Mid-South, farmers and ginners are reminded of the need to comply with federal Wage and Hour Division laws regarding compensation for worker....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Bullish factors in the market include the lower dollar values which stimulate increased export demand and the recent rally in gasoline reflects increased demand for oil and ethanol. ...
Norman E. Borlaug, who received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for developing high-yielding and disease-resistant wheat used to prevent famine in developing countries throughout the world, has died. ...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Since its introduction in the mid-1990s, Monsanto’s Roundup Ready technology has allowed U.S. agriculture to adopt an unprecedented level of conservation tillage. ...
By Bonnie Coblentz, MSU Ag Communications
A Noxubee County soybean field severely infected with soybean rust will represent Mississippi’s first yield losses to the disease that has been present in the state since November 2004....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. soybean crop continues to build toward a new record, along with expected yields for several southern states, according to USDA’s Sept. 11 Crop Production Report. ...
U.S. soybean farmers received an additional $2.5 billion in net returns over the last four years due to the biodiesel industry’s demand for soybean oil, a new study funded by the United Soybean Board and soybean checkoff shows....
By Dale Miller, Editor, National Hog Farmer
In a Thursday press conference to explain USDA’s preparedness to handle the potential onset H1N1 influenza this fall, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack expressed his exasperation with the general media’s misrepresentation of the virus as “swine flu”....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
In a move sure to please Southern agricultural interests, Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln has been named chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee....
With the addition of Crittendon County, 16 Arkansas counties now have confirmed the presence of Asian soybean rust....
By Carol Sanders, UAPB School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences
Sept. 30 is the deadline for producers of fall-seeded crops to sign up for crop insurance....
By Molly Johnson, USA Rice Federation
For the past 19 years, the USA Rice Federation has been spotlighting the U.S. rice industry through National Rice Month retail promotions, contributing to increased awareness and sales of U.S. rice in grocery stores....
The departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services have joined efforts on a new consumer Web site at www.foodsafety.gov. ...
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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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