By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
One of the most positive messages coming out of the recent Beltwide Cotton Conferences in San Antonio was the preliminary report on the Cotton Incorporated Natural Resource Survey that, based on responses from 1,300 U.S. cotton producers across the Cotton Belt, indicates sustainability is standard operating procedure for the vast majority of growers....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The $819 billion stimulus package passed by the House on a party line vote contains at least one provision that could prove helpful to cotton producers and other segments of the U.S. cotton industry....
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) will make $490 million available in partial 2008 Counter-cyclical Program (CCP) payments to eligible producers with enrolled upland cotton base acres in the Direct and Counter-cyclical Program (DCP). ...
If the U.S. cotton industry is to survive and prosper through the current economic uncertainty, U.S. cotton producers must be able to harvest more of their crop on the same number of acres, experts say....
By Dennis O'Brien
United States Department of Agriculture
A mystery about a disease that can destroy up to 15 percent of a cotton crop in the Southeastern United States has been solved by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) researchers. ...
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When to buy seed and fertilizer, even lower cost diesel fuel, has left many farmers in the Southeast in a gridlock over what crops to plant. ...
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When comparing crop budgets for 2009, there just aren’t any clear winners, says Nathan Smith, University of Georgia Extension economist....
By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
On a day when cotton prices struggled in the high 40 cents a pound range, Virginia grower Mike Griffin showed no signs of cotton being anything other than king on his farm near Suffolk, Va....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A recent surge in cotton exports after a dip in the market should start to put some fundamental legs under the market and perhaps solidify a bottom for the low end of a trading range, according to analysts speaking at the Jan. 14 Ag Market Network teleconference....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
If cotton prices have, in fact, bottomed out and begun what many hope will be a return to profitability, U.S. cotton producers may owe a debt of gratitude to “friends” in some rather unlikely places....
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