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Rice growth industry Weisemeyer
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.
Berry ag loses advocate
When Arkansas Rep. Marion Berry announced his plans to not seek re-election to Congress, the state and the rest of the Mid-South was put on notice it was losing a staunch, vocal advocate for agriculture.
2009 in the books, 2010 challenges
A look back at 2009 reminds me of that expression, worrying is like a rocking chair: it doesnt get you anywhere but it gives you something to do.
2010 market expectations
We start the year with the smallest hog heard in three years. Hogs on feed are down another 2 percent below last year.
U.S./Cuban ag sales and travel
On Dec. 16, President Obama signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2010. The act includes language offered by North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan to suspend for fiscal 2010 the requirement that agricultural exports to Cuba must be paid for before they leave U.S. ports.
Latin America strong market for U.S. rice
The best opportunity for U.S. rice sales in Latin America could very well come from the country that is already the U.S. rice industrys biggest export customer Mexico, according to a panel of U.S. and Latin American experts speaking at the USA Rice Outlook Conference in New Orleans.
Bill should help exports to Cuba
Agriculture trade between the United States and Cuba is expected to increase under a provision inserted into the massive appropriations bill for fiscal year 2010.
Rice change remains constant
Since the rapid increase in rice prices in early 2008, prices have softened with the global economic slowdown and increased production.
Soybeans U.S. key export supplier
Weather problems are now thought to be factored into market prices.
Guest: Time to open Cuban market
As a lifelong farmer, Ive spent decades working together with my friends and neighbors on the problems we face throughout the agricultural community.
Biotechnology, trade, keys for wheat
The adoption of biotechnology, export expansion, and supplier reliability are crucial components to further bolster the U.S. wheat industry a $16.5 billion economic powerhouse in 2008.
USA Rice talks with Cuban officials
Marvin Lehrer, USA Rice Federation senior adviser on Cuba, is in Havana this week to discuss opportunities for U.S. rice exports to Cuba with ALIMPORT, Cubas food-buying agency.
Freeing trade with Cuba
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and 15 other senators are trying once again to break the stranglehold of Florida politics on agricultural trade with Cuba by passing legislation that would loosen the decades-old U.S. embargo.
Cuba policy changes long time coming
I can recall when Arkansas' First District Congressman Bill Alexander was working on the Cuban embargo issue and he provided me an opportunity to visit there on behalf of the American Agriculture Movement and the farmers it represented. Some wanted to label us pro-communists. They were wrong. I'm no foreign policy expert, but I sincerely believe that had we begun trading and having dialogue with President
Rice group likes access to Cuba
The following statement was released by the U.S. Rice Producers Association after the Obama administration announced it will allow freer travel and commerce (see http://deltafarmpress.com/news/cuba-trade-0415/) between Cuban-Americans and their relatives still living on the island nation.
Easing Cuban trade and travel
Displeased with Cubas Fidel Castro-led revolution, adoption of communism and embrace of the Soviet Union, the U.S. government broke diplomatic ties with Havana in 1961.
U.S./Cuba policy change ag cheers
The recent loosening of several trade and travel sanctions against Cuba (see Cuba trade/travel policy shift) has not produced a consensus of opinion for the Obama administration.
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