August 18, 2006
Commentary
When lambasting ag subsidies, take a look at all the others
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, Hembree Brandon
Well, it's version 7,342 of the same tired old story, the column by Jonah Goldberg of Tribune Media Services that's been getting op-ed space in metropolitan...
Issues
Farm groups on a roll. more victories to follow?
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, Forrest Laws
They're not receiving much credit for it in the media, but farm organizations scored a major victory when the Doha Development Round negotiations collapsed...
Articles
NCC economist says: Dry July heat saps cotton crop
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Forrest Laws Farm Press Editorial Staff flaws@farmpress.com
How much of a toll did July's hot, dry weather take on the 2006 cotton crop? How about enough to reduce U.S. production by nearly one-fourth, the National...
Bottom to top Count 12 for timing defoliation
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Elton Robinson Farm Press Editorial Staff erobinson@farmpress.com
Defoliating a cotton field is often more of an art than a science, but there are some techniques to help cotton producers time the application, according...
U.S. cotton ends marketing year on high note
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Forrest Laws Farm Press Editorial Staff flaws@farmpress.com
Step 2 went out with a bang. USDA's weekly export numbers show that U.S. cotton merchants shipped 629,200 bales of cotton for the week ending July 27....
Classing offices gear up for cotton ginning
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Hembree Brandon Farm Press Editorial Staff hbrandon@farmpress.com
The USDA cotton classing fee will be unchanged this year, at $1.85, according to Keith Maloney, acting area director for the Dumas, Ark., classing office....
In Arkansas Bollworms descend on soybeans
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By David Bennett Farm Press Editorial Staff dbennett@farmpress.com
Alarming numbers of bollworms are moving through Arkansas soybeans. A super heavy bollworm flight upwards of four and five times threshold levels is currently...
Texas loses 2.2 million cotton acres
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Elton Robinson Farm Press Editorial Staff erobinson@farmpress.com
According to USDA, Texas cotton growers will harvest only 4.2 million of the 6.4 million acres of cotton they planted this year, indicating an abandonment...
Does moisture added to cotton impact future sales to mills?
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Hembree Brandon Farm Press Editorial Staff hbrandon@farmpress.com
A contentious issue. That's how John Mitchell, Cargill Cotton, Memphis, describes the practice of many gins in adding moisture to cotton bales in the...
In Mid-South: Ginners oppose moisture regulations
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Hembree Brandon Farm Press Editorial Staff hbrandon@farmpress.com
Hastily-developed regulations regarding restoration of moisture to cotton bales during the ginning process would do very little to preserve quality and...
Penn resigns USDA position
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM
J.B. Penn, undersecretary of agriculture for farm and foreign agricultural services and one of the few members of USDA's top hierarchy with ties to the...
Switchgrass has potential to alter agricultural landscape
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Forrest Laws Farm Press Editorial Staff flaws@farmpress.com
BP PLC's announcement that it would have to shut down its Alaskan oil field at Prudhoe Bay and replace 22 miles of pipeline that had become corroded sent...
Finding new uses for cottonseed and oil are industry concerns
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Hembree Brandon Farm Press Editorial Staff hbrandon@farmpress.com
When Frito-Lay, the 900-pound gorilla in the $15 billion snack food industry, announced it would start cooking its best-selling potato chip line in sunflowerseed...
Council seeks help for cottonseed
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM
IN A resolution at its board of directors meeting earlier this year, the Delta Council urged Congress to establish a permanent law providing income and...
In Arkansas Drift damage adds to farmers' woes
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Ford L. Baldwin Practical Weed Consultants, LLC. ford@weedconsultants.com
I recently looked at some of my articles from August of last year I was writing about high fuel prices, a hellish drought and other things taking a toll...
Regrettably, farmers aren't cute
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Elton Robinson Farm Press Editorial Staff erobinson@farmpress.com
Keep fighting, or get cute. That's what survival comes down to for American agricultural producers. They are fighting rising fuel and energy costs, labor...
Moran featured speaker at Delta Council meeting
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM
Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kans., will be the featured speaker at the Delta Council's mid-year board of directors meeting on Wednesday, August 30, 2006, at 10...
Different set of customers Larger cotton exports challenging
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Hembree Brandon Farm Press Editorial Staff hbrandon@farmpress.com
It's the old bad-news-good-news story: Consumption of cotton in the United States is going down, down, down, and the feeling is that we'll lose even more...
New Orleans Center reopens: Cotton research returning to speed
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM, By Hembree Brandon Farm Press Editorial Staff hbrandon@farmpress.com
With USDA/ARS' Southern Regional Research Center at New Orleans back in operation after Hurricane Katrina, cotton and cottonseed research projects there...
Workshop to feature energy from biomass
Aug 18, 2006 12:00 PM
A workshop for legislators, the business and manufacturing community, community leaders and interested citizens on the potential for producing energy...
