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What’s happening with the Arkansas and Mississippi soybean harvest?
Late-season rains leading to damage reports The Arkansas soybean has been early all growing season — until harvest, that is.“Now, we’re delayed and the rains haven’t really helped,” says Jeremy Ross,...
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Harvest faster, handle grain better
What’s new from the shows: Here are products that make harvest and grain handling more efficient. By Farm Progress staffFrom combine heads that help you capture more crop in the field to grain dryers...
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Rains keeping Arkansas growers from closing out harvest
A check-in on cotton and soybeansThe weather is proving reluctant to allow the 2018 harvest season to finish out. The USDA’s Oct. 15 NASS report “has us at about 65 percent done,” says Bill Robertson,...
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New cotton variety averts a deluge of difficulties
Goodman requires a cotton variety that not only yields and grades well, but also provides technology traits that help him control worms and weeds — a variety like DP 1845 B3XF.“If the apocalypse...
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Prior generations guide and inspire Virginia's M.L. Everett, Jr.
“We have been blessed by previous generations to continue on," says fourth generation Virginia farmer M.L. Everett, Jr. Virginia farmer M.L. Everett, Jr. looks to the generations who preceded him on...
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Disaster assistance needed by Dec. 7, Georgia delegation says
We have identified agriculture and the impacted rural communities as critical areas in which the support of the federal government is essential to our recovery. All 14 Members of the Georgia House...
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North Carolina unanimously passes $240 million for ag disaster relief
The $240 million approved will help farmers with storm damage and agricultural losses from both Hurricane Florence and Tropical Storm Michael. Application deadline is Dec. 10. The North Carolina...
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Seeking economic traction, legislative aid after the storm
In a Facebook Live video, Georgia farmer and agribusinessman Tommy Dollar discusses Hurricane Michael aftermath and trying to find the traction to recovery. Tommy Dollar was one of a handful of...
View ArticleFarmers, rural Americans at high risk for stress, suicide
“Rural Stress: Promising Practices and Future Directions” will be Dec. 10 and 11 in the Crowne Plaza Atlanta-Airport. Rural Americans, especially those working in agriculture, need more support to help...
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Soybean farmers asked to watch for disease new to Southeast
Other states that have reported cases of TRD include Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri with an increasingly northern range. Taproot decline is a new disease to Tennessee and other states...
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4 steps to manage soybean cyst nematode starting now
The last time a formal survey was conducted by the University of Kentucky, 76 percent of soybean fields in the state were infested with soybean cyst nematode. The soybean cyst nematode causes greater...
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Industrial hemp will be a big topic at SC AgriBiz & Farm Expo
There will be two educational sessions on industrial hemp at the SC AgriBiz & Farm Expo on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at the Florence Center in Florence. Industrial hemp is a new crop for South Carolina...
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Enhanced efficiency urea might turn profits in no-till corn
In 2016, harvested corn for grain in Tennessee covered 830,000 acres, and approximately 75 percent of that acreage was planted using no-till. Nitrogen is an important and expensive input for corn...
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Rural economic outlook promising
• Wheat prices are expected to hold well into next year.• Beef cattle prices likely will remain strong.• Farmland values are expected to stay strong.• Farmers and...
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Romaine warning prompts FDA to push new labeling requirements
FDA has commitments from the romaine lettuce industry that labelling will continue into the future and become the standard for romaine products. The Food and Drug Administration Nov. 27 updated its...
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