By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Open cotton is vulnerable to rain damage. Harvest is only 20 percent complete. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Deltapine cottonseed was the most planted brand of upland cotton in the United States in 2009, according to USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Excessive rainfall in September and October has reduced yield, hurt quality and frustrated cotton harvest in the Mid-South and portions of the Southeast....
By Bonnie Coblentz, MSU Ag Communications
Near-constant rains during harvest-time have cost Mississippi farmers an estimated $371 million in losses, and producers with crop insurance may be the only ones able to salvage much more from the fields this year....
By Mary Hightower, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Near constant rain has caused between 25 percent and 80 percent damage in some Arkansas cotton, rice and soybean fields as growers struggle to harvest what’s left during brief periods of dry weather, according Extension agents, agronomist and economists with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
There is some speculation that some crop acres in the United States may not get harvested until next year. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The cotton market is not paying much attention to fundamentals, but the speculators, funds and money managers are — or at least they think they are....
The 2009 Mid-South cotton crop began under difficult conditions as a cool, wet spring delayed planting....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
On Sept. 10, some 75 percent of Mississippi’s 800,000-acre corn crop had been harvested....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
As frequent rains have continued into October, so have fears that Mid-South crops — left in wet fields with frustrated growers unable to harvest — are suffering yield losses....
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