Perry Thompson, acting executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in South Carolina, has announced that producers can now elect and enroll in the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program....
While 2009 cotton acreage is projected to decrease for the fourth consecutive year, to the lowest levels since 1983, experts anticipate that cottonseed prices will remain "surprisingly reasonable." ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For Capron, Va., grower Lewis Everett growing cotton varieties a year before they hit the market is exciting and the results have been outstanding, but he’s not going overboard with the new stuff just yet....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Pollen movement could be a primary factor for the spread of resistant Palmer pigweed in the Southeast and Mid-South, although other factors such as equipment movement, gin trash and flooding can also spread the weed and its seed, according to research....
The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) has announced county loan rates for 2009 crops of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, soybeans and other oilseeds (sunflower seed, flaxseed, canola, rapeseed, safflower, mustard seed, crambe and sesame seed)....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Rickey Bearden depends on crop insurance as an integral part of the risk management program he employs on his Yoakum County, Texas, cotton, peanut and grain farm. ...
The National Cotton Council says India’s cotton subsidies, coupled with its failure to notify the World Trade Organization of those subsidy levels, is a major impediment to cotton trade....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The aim of precision agriculture is to help growers maximize their economic returns, and new methods of detecting and controlling nematode populations in a field is certainly in keeping with that aim....
By Chris Bickers
Contributing Writer
It’s not an honor North Carolina cotton growers will find particularly appealing, but according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Tar Heel state will apparently experience the largest decline in cotton plantings in 2009 in the Southeast....
By Jack Bachelor
North Carolina Extension Entomologist
Unfortunately, as North Carolina and Virginia cotton producers know from experience, and as tests confirm, this region has the dubious distinction of having the highest levels of thrips and potential damage in the Cotton Belt. ...
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