By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Five factors can influence the cropping decision for Mid-South and Southeast cotton producers — commodity prices, the farmer’s affiliation with infrastructure such as grain bins or gins, the need to spread labor and/or equipment, yield consistency and the need to rotate crops to address disease, nematodes and resistant weeds....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
In order to figure out where the rice market will go in 2010, “we need to look back and see where we’ve been in 2009,” said Thomas Wynn at the recent 2010 Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Conference in Tunica, Miss....
The changes and challenges in agriculture the past few years have made farmers more aware than ever of the need to develop long-term strategies....
With growing interest by consumers, customers, and policy-makers in knowing how the production of food impacts the environment, the U.S. rice industry is set to conduct a major research project — the development of a regional sustainability benchmark report to document rice farmers’ continuous efficiencies (or improvements) in natural resource management practices....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Looking back at a very wet 2009, Mississippi experienced “the second-wettest May on record and the fifth-wettest July,” said Nathan Buehring, Mississippi Extension rice specialist at the recent 2010 Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Conference in Tunica, Miss....
By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
I recently attended the Pan American Weed Resistance Conference and it was excellent....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA is projecting a 1 million-bale increase over last month in cotton exports for 2009-10, thanks to new export sales of more than 1.8 million bales made in January....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Bearish news: The Chinese government is selling over 200,000 tons of soybeans from state reserves. ...
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
As he speaks, Merle Anders has a small prop on the table behind him: a baseball cap inscribed with “Trash Farming for Profit.” ...
By Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter
Farmers attending the 2010 joint annual meeting of the Louisiana Rice Council and the Louisiana Rice Growers Association heard an optimistic report from a Washington, D.C., agriculture journalist recently....
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