Nov 20, 2009 10:48 AM, By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Weather problems are now thought to be factored into market prices. ...
Nov 17, 2009 10:51 AM, By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The next generation of farmers will foremost have to be good businessmen — “just being a good producer won’t be enough,” says Jeremy Jack....
Nov 17, 2009 10:13 AM, By Dwight Roberts, US Rice Producers Association
In 1989, the portrait of the U.S. rice industry and that of the Mexican rice industry was very different from what it is today....
Nov 16, 2009 3:26 PM, By Mary Hightower, University of Arkansas
The estimated crop loss for the 2009 Arkansas harvest so far has risen to $309 million, not including lost wages of about $83 million due to decline in nearly 3,000 full- and part-time agriculture-related jobs, the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture said....
Nov 12, 2009 10:31 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Huge soybean crops in North America and South America could push world inventories higher and prices lower in 2010, according to a market analyst speaking at the CME Group press briefing on USDA’s Nov. 9 Crop Production Report and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates....
Nov 12, 2009 10:24 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
It takes plenty of patience to produce rice on Mid-South buckshot soils, says Avon, Miss., farmer Marvin Cochran. ...
Nov 11, 2009 10:45 AM, By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
During the last week of October, with Arkansas set to lose many millions of dollars due to unprecedented, near season-long wet weather, Arkansas Farm Bureau analysts compiled a report on just how hard-hit the agricultural sector is....
News from the Farm BillFinal rule on country of origin labelingUSDA has announced details of the final regulation for the mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) program required by the 2002 and 2008 farm bills. ... NCC: Congress did not make changes in actively-engaged rulesDespite claims by some lawmakers to the contrary, Congress did not mandate any changes in the “actively engaged” language in the new farm bill’s payment limit reforms, National Cotton Council leaders are saying.... MU Breimyer Seminar unpacks farm bill, Sept. 3Farmers must make a choice on government program participation before the next crop year. ... |
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