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Logan
Hawkes
11/15/06
Crop News Weekly
The elections are over and most of us are still
wondering what will happen in the future. It seems there was so much
hype over issues, over party politics, and over how many seats each
party would grab in the end, that few of us paused long enough to think
what it all might mean - regardless which way the cookie crumbled. And
we're still wondering.
In this issue, Mark Keenum, veteran staff member for Mississippi Sen.
Thad Cochran and a major player in the last three farm bill debates, has
been nominated for the No. 3 post at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Also this week, and speaking of the elections, the changes imminent in
Senate and House leadership resulting from the mid-term election likely
will create new opportunities and challenges for America's farmers, but
the one certainty remaining is that no effective farm legislation will
pass without strong support from both parties. And some potential bad
news for farmers, wild poinsettia, or Euphorbia heterophylla, has been
confirmed resistant to glyphosate in Brazil, making it the eleventh weed
in the world to develop resistance to the herbicide. On the brighter
side, four in five U.S. adults (80%) strongly or somewhat agree that
national and state governments are not doing enough to promote
production of biofuels -- fuels made from agricultural crops or plant
matter.
You'll find these stories and a lot more in this issue of Crop News
Weekly. Happy reading.
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Mark
Keenum nominated to undersecretary post
11/14/06
Mark Keenum, veteran staff member for Mississippi Sen.
Thad Cochran and a major player in the last three farm bill debates, has
been nominated for the No. 3 post at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
President Bush named Keenum, a graduate and former assistant professor
of economics at Mississippi State University, to fill the post of
undersecretary of agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural
Services. He would replace J.B. Penn, who resigned last August. -
Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
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Environmental
groups celebrating Pombo defeat
11/14/06
The election of California's Nancy Pelosi as Speaker
of the House and third in line for the presidency and Nevada's Harry
Reid as Senate majority leader may have captured the headlines. But the
biggest development for farmers and ranchers from the Nov. 7 election
may have been the defeat of House Resources Committee Chairman Richard
Pombo at the hands of environmental groups. - Forrest Laws, Farm
Press Editorial Staff
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Bipartisan
efforts for farm legislation continue
11/13/06
The changes imminent in Senate and House leadership
resulting from the mid-term election likely will create new
opportunities and challenges for America's farmers, but the one
certainty remaining is that no effective farm legislation will pass
without strong support from both parties. Many agricultural committee
members in both houses will remain active, even as chairmanships move
from the Republican to the Democratic Party. - Ron Smith, Farm Press
Editorial Staff
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Don't
expect much change from elections
11/13/06
Hallelujah! When this sees print, the elections will
be over, and we will mercifully be spared any more of the inane, vapid,
condescending, downright idiotic political TV commercials that have been
bombarding us for months (until they crank up again in '08). One has to
wonder at the mentality of candidates and national party officials whose
messages to the voting public consist of a barrage of 30-second TV
attack ads that do nothing to enlighten the electorate about issues and
candidate qualifications, and whirlwind appearances with candidates
parroting the same carefully scripted speeches that say nothing
substantive. - Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
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Thiesse's
Thoughts
Sign-up for the 2007 DCP Farm Program began Oct. 1,
2006, at county Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices. Producers must sign
DCP Program contracts annually in order to receive Direct payments, and
to receive potential Counter-Cyclical payments, on DCP Program
commodities for the 2007 crop year. The first portion of the 2007 Direct
payments, which are scheduled to begin after Dec. 1, 2006, can't be made
until after producers have completed enrollment for the 2007 DCP Program
at their county FSA office. - Kent Thiesse, The Corn & Soybean
Digest
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Road
Warrior: Insight 2007
Dave Kohl writes: "What issues will be on farm
and ranch managers' radar screens for 2007? First and foremost will be
energy and inputs that are impacted by oil and natural gas. Expect wide
swings in these costs created by weather, supply and demand aspects of
the energy equation, and geopolitical risk. It will be a bumpy road in
energy costs until alternative energy is developed and/or the global
economy slows down. Watch the health of the U.S. economy. Canada's
biggest agricultural and general economy trading partner is experiencing
an economic slowdown." - The Corn & Soybean Digest
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Wild
poinsettia prevails over glyphosate in Brazil
Wild poinsettia, or Euphorbia heterophylla, has been
confirmed resistant to glyphosate in Brazil, making it the eleventh weed
in the world to develop resistance to the herbicide. "We have about
50-70 acres of glyphosate-resistant wild poinsettia at this time," says
Ribas Vidal, weed scientist at the Federal University of Rio Grande do
Sul (UFRGS) who confirmed the resistant population. The population was
found in a field in the main soybean growing region of Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil. - The Corn & Soybean Digest
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U.S.
adults support government incentives for biofuels
Four in five U.S. adults (80%) strongly or somewhat
agree that national and state governments are not doing enough to
promote production of biofuels -- fuels made from agricultural crops or
plant matter -- according to a survey released by the Biotechnology
Industry Organization (BIO). The survey, conducted by Harris
Interactive(r), also found that 82% of adults say national and state
governments should provide financial incentives to biofuels producers to
encourage the production and availability of biofuels. - The Corn &
Soybean Digest
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The
late-season arrival of soybean rust
11/10/06
It could have been a soybean farmer's worst nightmare.
The e-mail rust alerts were coming in hot and heavy, and the map on the
soybean rust monitoring Web site, which had been mostly green, suddenly
lit up like a Christmas tree. Between Oct. 11 and Oct. 24, the
www.sbrusa.net monitoring system issued 17 soybean rust alerts for
counties in the Mid-South states and Kentucky. Nationwide, the
monitoring program said the latest findings had brought the 2006 total
to 161 counties in 15 states ranging from Texas to Indiana to Virginia.
- Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
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Farmer's
wife speaks from the heart
11/09/06
I have received a lot of comments on an article I
wrote a few weeks ago about how glad I am that some choose to farm. In
this article I'm including some rather lengthy quotes from one response.
"I am the proud wife of a farmer for nineteen and a half years. I will
be the first to admit that I didn't have a clue about everything
involved in farming until I became a farmer's wife..." - Ford L.
Baldwin, Practical Weed Consultants
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Late-season
rust hits west Tennessee counties
11/09/06
When Asian soybean rust was detected in Kentucky and
other Mid-South states in mid-October, University of Tennessee Extension
plant pathologist Melvin Newman gathered up four truckloads of Extension
workers who drove out into the west Tennessee countryside to see if the
disease had found a home in the state. By that time, most of west
Tennessee's sentinel plots had matured out and many of the spore traps
had been taken up. A lot the state's commercial fields had been gathered
as well.
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Preaching
to the choir and the Google nation
11/08/06
Agricultural journalists have long anguished over our
failure to defend agriculture to people not in agriculture. We're
preaching to the choir, we are told -- our good message is hardly news
to an already enlightened flock of farmers. So imagine my surprise the
other day when I got a call from a reporter at Forbes magazine wanting
to interview me about an article I had written in Delta Farm Press in
which I addressed myths being perpetuated about conventional cotton.
- Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
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