By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
In the Mid-South, spring weather has been more suited for catfish than cotton, with heavy and frequent rains thwarting every effort to shift planting into high gear. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sit back and enjoy the ride. That’s basically the advice marketing experts are giving producers now that cotton futures have risen out of the 40s and 50s and into the low 60-cent range....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. and world ending stocks for cotton are expected to shrink in 2009-10, according to USDA’s first assessment of U.S. and world supply and demand for the new marketing year. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Lower expected U.S. cotton acreage for the coming year may not necessarily result in less cottonseed for dairy feeding....
By Ames Herbert
Virginia Tech\Department of Entomology
Growers in our area have been dependent on pyrethroids for controlling corn earworm (CEW) for many years in many crops including cotton, peanuts, soybeans, sweet corn, tomato and several other vegetable crops. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The global economic shakeup over the past year has created well-publicized spikes in fertilizer prices, has played havoc with the commodity market, and has placed too many farmers in too high a risk situation to borrow money for their farming operation....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
There is a big difference between perception and reality when it comes to crop subsidies around the world....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
During a late April hearing of the International Trade Commission, Gary Adams, a National Cotton Council economist, highlighted some of India’s “increasingly trade-distorting activities: increases in internal support prices, new export subsidy programs, and a continuing governmental assistance to the textile industry.”...
Declining mill use is expected to cause another increase in world cotton stocks by the end of the 2009-2010 marketing year, the International Cotton Advisory Committee says. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Ask an American living in the city about U.S. agricultural subsidies and he or she is sure to go on and on and about how U.S. farm policy is destroying the livelihoods of poor farmers around the world....
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