By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
You can blame some of Arkansas’ agricultural problems this year on two recent hurricanes. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA’s September crop report forecasts smaller U.S. corn and soybean crops and slightly larger cotton and rice production than last month. ...
USA Rice Federation and U.S. Wheat Associates in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has asked that the United States “put aside political concern and ease trade and travel restriction that are denying the Cuban people the relief and assistance so critically needed” in the devastating wake of Hurricane Ike....
By Rick Bogren
LSU AgCenter
Louisiana’s farmers are facing lost income from reduced yields and product quality in the neighborhood of $370 million to $450 million as a result of the effects of Hurricane Gustav, according to economists with the LSU AgCenter....
USA Rice Federation Chairman Jamie Warshaw and USA Rice Producers’ Group Chairman Tommy Hoskyn this week urged Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer “to issue the rules and regulations for the new Supplemental Revenue (disaster) Assistance Payments Program (SURE) as quickly as possible so producers in impacted areas have the opportunity to sign up for assistance that this new disaster aid program may provide....
Consumers and foodservice professionals this month are getting their first look at USA Rice Federation’s new “Grown in the USA” logo designed to promote the benefits of buying domestically grown rice....
By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
Farmer Jeffrey Sylvester of Whiteville, La., gazed over a field that looked more suited for water-skiing than growing rice. ...
U.S. rice exports by value in 2008 are 46 percent more than for the same period last year....
By Lamar James
Arkansas Extension Specialist
About 30 percent to 40 percent of the state’s rice crop in southeast Arkansas has been hit hard by remnants of Hurricane Gustav, according to the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
By Linda Foster Benedict
LSU AgCenter
Rice is among the many Louisiana agricultural commodities hurt by Hurricane Gustav, although the majority of the crop had been harvested in the southwest Louisiana rice belt before the storm came through....
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