By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
“When are we going to have a Secretary of Agriculture who is for agriculture?”...
National Cotton Council directors for 2009 were announced at the industrywide organization’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C....
By Don Shurley
University of Georgia Extension Economist
In 2001, Georgia is on the road playing at Tennessee. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA is projecting a world cotton crop for 2009-2010 of 107 million bales, a 2.3 percent decline from the previous year and the lowest output since 2003-04....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Innovation, from cotton growers to apparel manufacturers, will be a key issue in the future of the entire cotton industry, according to Berrye Worsham, president and CEO of Cotton Incorporated....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA analysts are projecting 2009 U.S. cotton plantings at 8.5 million acres, which is slightly higher than the 8.11 million acres projected by the National Cotton Council’s Annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey, released Feb. 13....
Farmers are expected to plant fewer acres not only in the United States but in the rest of the cotton-producing world in 2009-10, economists with the International Cotton Advisory Committee said....
The Memphis-based National Cotton Ginners Association (NCGA) elected its officers for 2009 at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA has taken some steps to improve the implementation of the new payment limitation and eligibility regulations in the 2008 farm bill, but the Agriculture Department still has a ways to go to make sure the rules follow congressional intent, the National Cotton Council chairman says....
By Paul Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers and others in agriculture now find themselves in an agronomic “perfect storm,” says Paul Fixen of the International Plant Nutrition Institute....
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