By Hembree Brandon Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers are very concerned about the escalating cost of nitrogen fertilizers and the impact it will have on their continuing operation, says Ford West,...
By Andrew Bell Farm Press Editorial Staff
A drop in catfish inventory in 2005 caused a small, but much-welcomed lift in the price for catfish farmers for the second consecutive year. According...
By Forrest Laws
Although their losses are staggering, farmers and other residents of south Mississippi, southwest Louisiana and the east Texas Gulf Coast are in a localized disaster, and their requests for assistance are being ignored....
By Forrest Laws
You couldn’t blame rice farmers for being a little puzzled by the numbers coming out of USDA’s crop production reports this year....
By Daryll. E. Ray
U.S. agricultural and trade negotiators have been pressuring the Japanese to reopen their market, which has been closed to U.S. beef since BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or mad cow disease) was first detected in the U.S. herd at the end of 2003. ...
By Forrest Laws
The Senate turned back an effort by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, to impose a $250,000 per individual cap on farm program payments through an amendment to the FY 2006/2010 budget reconciliation package. ...
By Forrrest Laws
If oil and natural gas prices are rising faster than they can change the signs at the pumps, could crop protection chemicals be far behind? ...
By Forrest Laws
The legislation, the National Energy Supply Diversification and Disruption Prevention Act, would also allow natural gas production in federal waters of the outer continental shelf – another move that is likely to spark opposition from environmental organizations. ...
Fish samples collected from coastal and offshore marine waters of the Gulf of Mexico two weeks after hurricane Katrina showed no elevated exposure to...
By A. Denise Coolman
A breeze is blowing through storm-beaten pecan trees in Ben Littlepage's 300-acre orchard near Colfax, La. The trees are almost leafless, and there's...
By Forrest Laws Farm Press Editorial Staff
You knew it was coming, didn't you? If oil and natural gas prices are rising faster than they can change the signs at the pumps, could crop protection...
By Forrest Laws
The amendment, passed by voice vote during Senate deliberations on Sept. 20, would delay implementation of a plan that reportedly would shutter 665 of FSA’s current 2,353 county offices. ...
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