In an effort to teach kids about recycling and how cotton denim can be recycled into housing insulation, Cotton Incorporated, along with National Geographic Kids magazine held a nationwide denim drive to set the Guinness World Record for the Most Items of Clothing Collected for Recycling....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The biggest threat from climate change has less to do with rising sea levels, shifting of agricultural regions, more hurricanes in the Gulf, or why the heck it rained so much during the dog days of a Mid-South summer....
By Shawn Wade, Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
Having closed out the 2008 Upland cotton marketing year, cotton producers across the U.S are shifting their thoughts to the upcoming USDA announcement of the Average Price Received by Growers and the final 2008-crop Counter-cyclical program payment rate....
The 2009 Jackson County Extension Service Field Day will be held on Friday, Aug. 28, at the Newport Research Station....
An informational meeting will be held on Sept. 1 from 10:30 a.m. until noon, in 212 Efferson Hall on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, to introduce a direct marketing service that could benefit many Louisiana producers....
Under a punishing afternoon sun and against a backdrop of maturing, well-managed corn, Pioneer’s Scott Jungman seems out of place. ...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
An Asian soybean rust scout team has found the disease in four more Mississippi counties: Calhoun, Coahoma, Quitman and Tallahatchie. ...
As Asian soybean rust finds in Mississippi continue at a brisk pace, plant pathologists in the state are fielding many questions about fungicide treatments....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. Treasury Department will always be involved in agriculture policy to some extent to provide people with food and energy, says former ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee Charlie Stenholm and current policy advisor for the law firm Olsson, Frank and Weeda....
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has removed a provision allowing certain speculators to exceed federal speculative position limits on agricultural commodities....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
USDA soybean yield estimates dropped a bushel from 42.6 to 41.7 per acre. ...
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Max Rothschild has spent much of his career looking at the DNA of pigs....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The 2009 fee for cotton classing services will increase to $2.20 per bale, up from $2.00 last year, according to David Rowland, assistant area director of the USDA Cotton Classing Office at Dumas, Ark....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Allowing organic crop producers to gain certification for biotech crops could encourage the development of a new type of environmentally sustainable agricultural production, with greater benefits for the consumer....
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I am enjoying the e-mails I am receiving from around the country regarding Palmer pigweed. ...
The National Cotton Council-coordinated 2010 Beltwide Cotton Conferences (BWCC) is set for Jan. 4-7 at the New Orleans Marriott and Sheraton New Orleans hotels....
Since Monday, Asian soybean rust has been confirmed in four additional Mississippi counties....
On the Wednesday evening, several new locations of low-incidence Asian soybean rust were reported in Arkansas’ Chicot County....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Nowhere have losses in U.S cotton acreage been as great as they’ve been in the Mid-South and California. ...
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Every year, the nearly 7 billion people on Planet Earth — driving their vehicles, operating coal-fired electric generating plants, running heavy industries, and carrying out dozens of other fossil fuel-burning activities — pump an estimated 234 billion metric tonnes of greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide equivalents into the atmosphere....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers will benefit from completion of trade agreements, including pending bi-lateral agreements as well as the Doha Round of WTO....
From the Kentucky Soybean Promotion Board
In an effort to encourage producers to strive for higher yields and higher levels of oil and protein, the Kentucky Soybean Promotion Board (KSPB) and the Kentucky Soybean Association (KSA) announce the 2009 Kentucky Soybean Quality and Yield Contest....
As concerns mount while Asian soybean rust continues to spread through the Mid-South, Delta Farm Press has set up a Twitter account...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
On Tuesday morning, Asian soybean rust was confirmed in three Louisiana parishes: West Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee and East Carroll....
In the latest issue of Mississippi Crop Situation (Aug. 14, 2009), Darrin Dodds provides information for estimating cotton yields by counting bolls after warning that such counts “can often be misleading as there are a number of factors that can influence final yield.”...
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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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