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Managing weed, insect resistance in cotton critical

Feb 1, 2010 11:02 AM, By Roy Roberson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Managing resistant insects and weeds goes well beyond being important, say Roger Leonard and Stanley Culpepper — it is essential from both economic and production standpoints to continue growing cotton in the South....

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NCC: 10.1 million cotton acres

Feb 8, 2010 10:47 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

After three straight years of declines, U.S. cotton acreage could be headed back up, according to the National Cotton Council’s 27th annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey....

EPA rule benefits renewable fuels

Feb 8, 2010 10:40 AM, By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Calling for 36 billion gallons of biofuel to be produced by 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency has issued a long-awaited final rule on the implementation of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) established in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act....

Wide-ranging issues on Cotton Council slate

Feb 8, 2010 10:39 AM, By Hembree Brandon, Farm Press Editorial Staff

“The cotton industry has excellent prospects for achieving profitable production and processing,” National Cotton Council Chairman Jay Hardwick said at the opening session of the 2010 Beltwide Cotton Conferences....

Tests indicate no Liberty Link in 2009 rice

Feb 8, 2010 10:34 AM

The USA Rice Federation today released the results of voluntary testing of the 2009 rice crop for the presence of the genetically-engineered Liberty Link (LL) trait. ...

U.S. cotton acres: 10.1 million

Feb 5, 2010 5:14 PM

U.S. cotton producers are expected to plant more than 10 million acres for the first time in three years as they begin making preparations for the 2010 planting season....

Innovation improves cotton profitability

Feb 5, 2010 8:28 AM, By Roy Roberson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Some of his neighbors said it was innovative; others said it was insane, but regardless of what you call it planting conventional, non-transgenic cotton on marginal land paid off nicely in 2009 for Garysburg, N.C., grower David Grant....

TDA receives funds to enhance biosecurity

Feb 5, 2010 8:26 AM

Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples today announced the Texas Department of Agriculture has been awarded $772,301 in funding from USDA to monitor entry of plant pests at strategic checkpoints and conduct reviews of Texas’ plant pest detection and response activities....

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Commentaries

New Year stirs memories of simpler era

By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff

I’m wondering, is this the last year of the first decade of the 21st century or the first year of the second decade of the new millennium?...

USDA climate bill analysis: ag gains

By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he understands the concerns some have expressed over a computer model that shows major losses of crop land to forestry as a result of the cap-and-trade legislation pending in Congress....

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Pre-conditioning can make cotton defoliation easier

Feb 1, 2010 3:34 PM, By Roy Roberson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

As many growers in the Southeast found out recently, picking cotton in January is not a good idea. ...

Across the Sunbelt

Keys to CYSDV control

About three years have passed since researchers first found Cucurbit Yellow Stunting Disorder Virus (CYSDV) in melon fields across the low desert-growing areas of California, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico....

Soy rust — Arkansas revises recommendations

Soybean rust is continuing to develop and spread throughout much of the Arkansas Delta and is not showing any signs of slowing down, reports Scott Monfort, Arkansas Extension Plant Pathologist....

Armyworm infestations heavy in cotton

Fall armyworm doesn’t historically cause much problem in cotton, but in some areas of South Carolina this year Clemson Entomologist Jeremy Greene says infestation have been the highest he has ever seen....

‘Navigable’ waters debate on hold

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