By Shawn Wade, Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
Having closed out the 2008 Upland cotton marketing year, cotton producers across the U.S are shifting their thoughts to the upcoming USDA announcement of the Average Price Received by Growers and the final 2008-crop counter-cyclical program payment rate....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The 2009 fee for cotton classing services will increase to $2.20 per bale, up from $2 last year, according to David Rowland, assistant area director of the USDA Cotton Classing Office at Dumas, Ark....
By Paul L. Hollis, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The recent 2009 Sunbelt Expo Field Day in Moultrie, Ga., treated visitors to a preview of more than 100 in-field crop variety trials in addition to cutting-edge agricultural technology and suggestions on handling some of the more pressing fertilizer and pest control concerns on growers’ minds....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The cotton industry faces a double handful of trade issues in the near future, including an announcement of damages in the Brazil WTO case that could affect the economic well-being of cotton farmers, ginners and others....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Uncertainty over the size of the cotton crop in drought-stressed Texas, where over half of the U.S. crop is planted this season, will likely continue well into October, and perhaps November, according to experts speaking at the Ag Market Network August teleconference....
By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Declining stocks and a (hopefully) recovering economy could bring an uptick in demand for cotton in the new marketing year that began Aug. 1, says Gary Adams, vice-president for economics and policy analysis at the National Cotton Council....
By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton crop conditions across the U.S. Cotton Belt range from a complete disaster to some of the best prospects observers have ever seen in late summer, according to spokesmen at the American Cotton Producers/Cotton Foundation joint meeting yesterday in Nashville....
The first forecast of Georgia's row crops for 2009 indicate yields will be up for cotton, corn and soybeans. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A record U.S. soybean crop is in the making, and U.S. corn producers are on the way to producing the second largest crop on record, according to USDA’s Aug. 12 Crop Production report. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Two key factors affecting U.S. cotton exports for 2009-10 are how much cotton India will have on hand to export, and how much import quota China will issue, according to Joe Nicosia, chief executive officer, Allenberg Cotton Co., speaking at the Cotton Roundtable in New York City....
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