David Bennett

Associate Editor
Delta Farm Press
Email: 
dbennett@farmpress.com

David Bennett, associate editor for Delta Farm Press, is an Arkansan. He worked with a daily newspaper before joining Farm Press in 1994. Bennett writes about legislative and crop related issues in the Mid-South states.

Articles by David Bennett

House passes $940 billion farm bill out of committee
Late Wednesday night, the House Agriculture Committee passed its version of the farm bill on a 36 to 10 vote.
Senate farm bill passes out of committee 15-5
Early on Tuesday afternoon, the Senate Agriculture Committee passed a new farm bill on a 15-5 vote.
Open data a treasure trove for world agriculture?
"Open data" summit of G8 countries winds up after taking "first step" to provide agriculture-related research and statistics to the world.
No smoking gun found as cause of honeybee decline and die-offs
Joint USDA/EPA report on honeybee decline points to variety of causes.
Specialty crops take center stage at farm bill hearing
Immigration took up a large portion of April 24 hearing on horticulture and a new farm bill.
Brazil sugar industry receives massive government subsidies
A recently-released report looks at the market-distorting Brazilian government subsidies provided to its sugar sector.
Senate immigration reform plan has agriculture backing
Having been a driving force behind the Senate’s earlier introduction of immigration reform, on Wednesday afternoon (April 17) a broad coalition of agricultural interests convened to explain and back the legislation.
Obama budget would shutter USDA catfish inspection program
The U.S. catfish industry is displeased with the Obama fiscal 2014 budget, which calls for the abolishment of a yet-to-be-implemented USDA-FSIS catfish inspection regime.
U.S. food aid programs set for major changes? 1
The Obama administration will propose revising the U.S. food aid model to allow for purchase of food aid on a local or regional basis.
Resistant barnyardgrass torments Mid-South
Barnyardgrass has tormented farmers while picking up resistance to a wide range of herbicides. And without agronomic changes, the weed is likely to ratchet up the pressure on Mid-South crops.
Immigration reform heats up, agriculture watching closely
Immigration reform continues to build momentum in Congress. As migrant workers are a vital component of the U.S. food and fiber sector, agricultural interests are keen to bend the coming legislation to their best advantage.
Drought leaves 2013 growing season vulnerable
Repercussions of the 2012 drought are set to challenge the 2013 growing season. The Corn Belt is especially vulnerable.
Aging inland waterways infrastructure to be rehabbed? 1
An aging U.S. waterway infrastructure – which carries more than 60 percent of America’s grain and other commodity exports -- may be set to get a funding boost from Congress that will allow for more than a facelift.
Agricultural research continues funding scramble
In recent years, university agricultural research funding has too often been short. The new reality for researchers and administrators is a near-constant scramble to find ways to keep research programs afloat.
Major farm bill shift for ASA
Amid continuing budget concerns and a need to not be caught flat-footed when Congress again takes up a new farm bill, the American Soybean Association has shifted positions on what the new legislation should contain.

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