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....
Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain and Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu are hopeful Congress will authorize hurricane disaster relief funding for Louisiana by Sept. 26....
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Ag Communications
Mississippi’s soybean crop is getting some “R and R,” but rather than producers having an easy time, their crop is battling seed rot and soybean rust....
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve a bill to increase the transparency, oversight, and anti-manipulation authority over commodity futures and options markets. ...
On Sept. 18, soybean rust was found in Coahoma, Panola, Quitman, and Tallahatchie counties on soybeans in Mississippi and in Prairie, Monroe and Lee counties on soybeans in Arkansas....
Lauren Farms, Leland, Miss., has launched a blog (www.laurenfarms.blogspot.com) to keep in touch with its customers, according to Dolores Fratesi, co-owner of the farm with her husband Steve....
Wildlife watching, fee fishing, fee hunting and horse trail riding as outdoor recreational businesses will be discussed at a Sept. 30 workshop at Richardson’s Tree Farm in Brookhaven, Miss....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Mid-South is showing its neighbors in the Midwest that they are serious competitors in yield. ...
By Mary F. Hightower
University of Arkansas
Hurricane Ike delivered a fresh blow to Arkansas producers trying to pick up the pieces left by the remnants of Hurricane Gustav. ...
The deadline has been extended to Sept. 30 for farmers who need waivers from the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to qualify for federal disaster insurance to help cover their losses from hurricanes Gustav and Ike....
Farmers in Vermilion Parish, La., told Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain this week they need better flood protection from hurricane storm surges while Cameron and Calcasieu cattlemen said they need water and hay for their stranded and stressed cattle....
In a letter Saturday to House and Senate leadership, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called on lawmakers to act swiftly to aid hundreds of thousands Louisiana residents impacted by Hurricane Gustav early this month....
Asian soybean rust was confirmed Tuesday in Lincoln and Jefferson counties in Arkansas, bringing to six the number of counties with the yield-robbing fungus, according to plant disease experts with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
One way to control glyphosate-resistant pigweed in cotton fields is to make sure you overlap residual herbicide applications, says University of Arkansas Extension weed scientist Ken Smith, speaking at the Judd Hill Field Day south of Trumann, Ark....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Winners of the Future of Delta Cotton Student Essay Contest are long on creative ideas on how to build stability into the Delta cotton industry — on every subject from agronomy to agrotourism....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Much ado has been made of late, pro and con, about efforts by President Bush and many Republican lawmakers to open U.S. offshore continental shelf areas and parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling....
On Tuesday Sept. 16, soybean rust was confirmed in Lincoln and Jefferson counties in Arkansas in producer soybean fields....
The questions for Craig Osell are as varied as the GMC truck models on display at the farm shows where he mans the booth for the industrial strength truck division of General Motors....
By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
Coastal residents assessing their damage from Hurricane Ike compared this storm with Hurricane Rita in 2005....
Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain has put out a call for donations of hay and cattle feed to supply cattle in coastal areas left stranded by the storm surge of Hurricane Ike....
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples yesterday announced joint efforts with local, state and federal partners as well as statewide agricultural organizations to meet the needs of thousands of agricultural producers impacted by Hurricane Ike....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sometime between now and Jan. 20, Bush administration officials will begin to realize the clock is running out on their time in Washington and start cleaning out their desks and making other plans....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A group of farm-state senators led by Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin is asking Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer to stop trying to re-write the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 through the regulations implementing the new farm bill....
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Dec 3, 2008 10:22 AM
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By the year 2050, the world population, estimated to top 9 billion, will require twice as much food as today, and water demand will double — possibly stretching the “carrying capacity” of the planet. ...
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This course covers a wide range of options to effectively control weeds in cotton and reduce the risk of weed resistance management. It is accredited for hours/units for licensed/accredited applicators in 7 U.S. Cotton Belt states (Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina an d Tennessee. CCA credit is pending).
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A free American Society of Agronomy-accredited one-CEU course on spray drift management.
