Nov 20, 2009 10:13 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The World Trade Organization has authorized Brazil to seek retaliation against the United States for it support of two U.S. commodity programs....
Nov 18, 2009 10:12 AM, By Harry Cline, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The World Trade Organization arbitration report on the infamous Brazilian cotton case says the U.S. will have to forfeit $300 million in export trade to the South American country....
Nov 18, 2009 10:06 AM, By Robert Burns, Texas A&M University
Mother Nature served up mild, warmer weather with a little rain on the side to some Texas customers, a recipe that promoted the harvesting of cotton and other crops, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....
Nov 18, 2009 10:02 AM, By Vic Schoonover for NTOK cotton
Cotton ginning is well along in southwestern Oklahoma and just beginning farther north. ...
Nov 17, 2009 11:29 AM, By Shawn Wade, Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
Since the closing days of October, cotton harvest on the Texas High Plains has been advancing rapidly as cotton producers take advantage of nearly ideal weather conditions....
Nov 13, 2009 11:23 AM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton futures broke out of a month-long trading range and surged to the highest level in over a year on November 11 on spec trading. ...
Nov 12, 2009 9:47 AM, By Roger Haldenby, Editor, Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
We were advised by the National Cotton Council that, despite NCC having worked actively with FMC over the past decade in support of the use of carbofuran in cotton, it has recently been announced that food tolerances for the insecticide carbofuran (Furadan) are being revoked effective December 31st....
News from the Farm BillACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmersJul 11, 2008 10:01 AM, By Forrest Laws The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ... Farm bill: Several provisions delayed until 2009Jul 8, 2008 9:38 AM The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue.... USDA issues advance direct paymentsJul 8, 2008 9:21 AM America's farmers will receive up to $1.15 billion in 2008 advance direct payments that began July 7.... Food, Conservation and Energy Act for Oklahoma farmersJul 3, 2008 8:22 AM, By Ron Smith Elk City, Okla. farmer Danny Davis doesn’t expect the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program included in the recently passed Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 to fit his operation.... |
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