After an extensive interview and selection process, the Memphis-based Cotton Board announces the hiring of four Regional Communications Managers to serve as direct links to the Cotton Research & Promotion Program for U.S. cotton producers and ginners across the four production regions of the Cotton Belt....
North Carolina growers are making good harvest progress, with corn, tobacco and peanuts mostly out of the field. ...
By Jim Langcuster
Auburn University
Imagine a recurring nightmare in which an army of goblins slowly robs you of your money and eventually your livelihood and whose numbers multiply no matter what you do to stop them....
Cool, wet weather arrived in the lower Southeast last week, delaying cotton, peanut and soybean harvest, but benefiting small grain seeding and forage crops....
Deputy Administrator of Cotton and Tobacco Programs for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Darryl W. Earnest, has approved both the Cotton Board’s and Cotton Incorporated’s 2009 budgets. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Before deciding whether you want to sign up for the farm bill’s new ACRE program, or stick with the counter-cyclical program, be sure to do your homework, says John Robinson, Texas A&M Extension economist for cotton marketing....
Corn and tobacco harvests in North Carolina were nearing completion last week as parts of the state received the first frost of the season....
Light rains slowed the Alabama crop harvest this past week as cotton picking lagged last year’s pace by nearly 10 percent and was 4 percent behind the five-year average....
Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer has announced the appointment of 13 members, 13 alternate members and one non-voting consumer advisor to the Cotton Board. ...
Cotton farmers who have said they wanted a choice when it comes to the companies that provide herbicide-resistant traits in their new varieties may soon get their wish....
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