Nov 20, 2009 10:48 AM, By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Weather problems are now thought to be factored into market prices. ...
Nov 19, 2009 3:57 PM, By Bonnie Coblentz, MSU Ag Communications
Mississippi State University agricultural economists calculate Mississippi farmers are suffering an estimated $485 million value loss in 2009. ...
Nov 19, 2009 10:00 AM, By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Providing a marketing outlook on a particular commodity involves much more these days than simply looking at supply and demand numbers, says Chuck Danehower, University of Tennessee Extension farm management specialist....
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 10:29 AM, By Ford L. Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.
In a system of residual herbicides in a LibertyLink program you are not as dependent on residual herbicides as you are in a resistant Palmer pigweed situation with a conventional herbicide program or Roundup Ready program....
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 10:37 AM, By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
On Nov. 4, Gus Wilson took a sample of soybeans with 100 percent damage....
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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