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Tight supplies boost cotton

Jul 29, 2010 2:58 PM, By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff

A “very tight supply situation” currently characterizes the U.S. and world cotton scene, and U.S. growers “should benefit from it,” says Dale Cougot, senior economist for the National Cotton Council...

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Early harvest: price benefit

Jul 29, 2010 4:00 PM, By Mary Hightower, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture

Some Arkansas producers will be ready to harvest in two to three weeks — and early delivery may provide them a windfall at the terminal....

Demand supports corn

Jul 29, 2010 2:52 PM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Rabo AgriFinance agricultural economist Sterling Liddell expects that strong demand will support corn prices late into 2010 and early 2011, which could give support to wheat prices...

Harvest weather: optimistic

Jul 29, 2010 2:33 PM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Meteorologist Drew Lerner, with World Weather, Inc., provided an optimistic prediction for fall weather in the Mid-South this year when he spoke at the recent Brock Decision 2010 Seminar in Memphis...

India to compete for cotton sales

Jul 29, 2010 2:23 PM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

India will again prove to be a major competitor for U.S. producers, starting sometime around December 2010, according to Joe Nicosia, Allenberg president and CEO...

Arkansas crops: thumbs up

Jul 29, 2010 9:37 AM, By William Hehemann, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture

Despite a long hot, dry spell, armyworms, bollworms and rice stinkbugs, Arkansas’ 2010 row crops are in good shape....

World needs U.S. cotton

Jul 28, 2010 3:19 PM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

A big U.S. cotton crop could be a much needed salve for U.S. cotton producers and consumers around the world, according to Joe Nicosia, Allenberg president and CEO...

Cotton insect pressure building

Jul 28, 2010 3:15 PM

Mississippi cotton acres treated for spider mites will “reach an all-time high” this season, on a percentage of acres treated, says Angus Catchot, associate Extension professor of entomology and plant pathology at Mississippi State University...

Rice panicle blight, neck blast

Jul 28, 2010 3:09 PM, From the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture

Neck blast of rice is in the Arkansas crop along with bacterial panicle blight...

Loewer - USA Rice Federation chairman

Jul 28, 2010 3:05 PM

USA Rice Federation has elected Paul “Jackie” Loewer Jr. to be its chairman...

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Cotton’s nemesis - unpleasant memory

By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Zero. Zip. Zilch. None. That’s the number of boll weevils trapped in Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee last year — plus all the states from Alabama eastward...

Long on cash, short on character

By Elton Robinson. Farm Press Editorial Staff

The housing bust is now creeping into high-priced neighborhoods. According to a recent article in the New York Times, rich folks are walking out on their mortgages in record numbers...

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WTO framework agreement eases pressure

Jul 20, 2010 4:17 PM, By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff

A framework agreement in the World Trade Organization’s Brazil case “took a tremendous amount of pressure off the cotton industry and the U.S. government that could have resulted in costly retaliatory measures by Brazil on imports into their county and suspension of intellectual property rights,” says Craig Brown...

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Across the Sunbelt

Pest management decisions in cotton

Stink bugs and grasshoppers are showing up in Oklahoma cotton fields, according to Terry Pitts, Oklahoma State University Extension integrated pest management specialist...

Reusable grocery bags and E. coli

Reusable grocery bags can be a breeding ground for dangerous food-borne bacteria and pose a serious risk to public health, according to a joint food-safety research report issued by the University of Arizona (UA) and Loma Linda University in California...

Today’s farming methods reduce carbon footprint

Some organic farming advocates and public pundits have characterized modern agriculture as a major contributor to global warming....

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