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. ...
By Tobie Blanchard, LSU AgCenter
The diaprepes root weevil comes in multiple colors, and it can cause problems for multiple plants according to Natalie Hummel, LSU AgCenter entomologist....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
While much of the nation busied itself with other events, residents along the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf coasts noted another anniversary of the arrival of Hurricane Katrina (on Aug. 29)....
From the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
Even before summer ends, cattlemen should be thinking about winter grazing, said Mark Keaton, Baxter County Extension staff chair for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
By Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter
Farmers should be aware of the pH level in the water they use to mix insecticides, Dale Pollet, an LSU AgCenter entomologist, told growers at a sugarcane field day at the LSU AgCenter’s Iberia Research Station....
From the University of Tennessee Extension Service
Asian soybean rust has been confirmed in Tennessee according to University of Tennessee Extension experts. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Four college students hauled in $20,000 in prize money in August as winners of the second annual student essay contest sponsored by Syngenta Crop Protection and Farm Press Publications....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farming the hill land of north central Mississippi comes with its own unique set of challenges, not the least of which are erosion and drainage....
Farm Press Daily subscribers will notice a new look when their daily e-newsletter arrives Monday....
Delta Farmers Advocating Resource Management or Delta FA.R.M., an organization that has enrolled more than 1.2 million acres of Delta farmland in conservation programs since its beginning, will receive a first place Gulf Guardian award from the Gulf of Mexico Program....
From the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service
Ravenous fall armyworms are leaving browned strips in their wake as they eat through pastures statewide, personnel for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture say....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Bearish market factors include any increase in relative dollar values that limit export potential....
From the National Cotton Council
In response to the WTO Arbitration Panel decision on the USDA export credit guarantee (“GSM-102”) program released August 31, the North American Export Grain Association, National Cotton Council, CoBank, Farm Credit Council, US Rice Producers Association, and National Council of Farmer Cooperatives released the following statement:...
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A recent Congressional Budget Office study projected that carbon offsets could be a $60 billion market in 2012, on a par with U.S. corn and wheat markets, and “as it grows beyond that, it will make forestry mitigation opportunities more important,” says Jeffrey O’Hara, senior economist, Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)....
A field day devoted to nematodes in soybeans has been set for Wednesday, Sept. 9, in Black Oak, Ark....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Karen Hill is unhappy. And she thinks cotton farmers and others in the industry should be upset, too, about what she feels is an adverse impact on cotton demand from the trend requiring uniforms or other standardized dress for school children....
By Miranda Reiman, Certified Angus Beef LLC
Farm and ranch freezers are often full of home-raised beef, yet producer families still enjoy the classic steakhouse experience now and again....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Ronnie Qualls Farm in northeast Arkansas may have reduced cotton acres over the last few years, but the family farm is not forsaking the crop that built the business. ...
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Climate change legislation, awaiting resumption of debate when the Senate returns from its August recess, “has both great opportunities and great risks, and we want to be sure that if anything passes it is what’s best for landowners and tree farmers,” says Erica Rhoad, director of policy for the Society of American Foresters....
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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. ...
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Mississippi State University agricultural economists calculate Mississippi farmers are suffering an estimated $485 million value loss in 2009. ...
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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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