By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The World Trade Organization has authorized Brazil to seek retaliation against the United States for it support of two U.S. commodity programs....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
2008 was a heady year for Pat Westhoff and other analysts at the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute....
By Harry Cline, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The World Trade Organization arbitration report on the infamous Brazilian cotton case says the U.S. will have to forfeit $300 million in export trade to the South American country....
By Roy Roberson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The spike in nitrogen fertilizer prices in 2008 and the continued volatility of both supply and cost, combined with continued low prices for cotton, has placed many growers in dire need of improving the efficiency of the fertilizer they use....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Deltapine cottonseed was the most planted brand of upland cotton in the United States in 2009, according to USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton futures broke out of a month-long trading range and surged to the highest level in over a year on Nov. 11 on spec trading....
Based on a survey of growers contacted around Nov. 1, Georgia’s crop yields remained the same as last month for corn and peanuts, while cotton and soybeans showed a decline in yields....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A statistical picture of the impact of wet weather on Mid-South crops still has not come into focus, although USDA is acknowledging significant problems with a portion of the Mid-South cotton crop....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Unlike nitrogen, phosphorus is highly immobile in soils, and subject to various transformations, depending on the chemical environment....
By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture Ron Sparks is calling it a “potential crisis” — the rainy weather conditions throughout most of September and October that have frustrated growers who were eyeing pretty good cotton, peanut, soybean and corn crops....
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