By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Texas cotton from the Northern Blacklands to the High Plains has potential to make a decent crop, depending on weather from now through fall, but prospects further south are less promising, says Texas AgriLife Extension cotton specialist Gaylon Morgan in College Station....
By Vic Schoonover, NTOK Cotton
As cotton matures and changes, so do the pests challenging its productivity. J. Terry Pitts, Oklahoma State University Extension specialist, entomology, integrated pest management, offers an update on the 2009 cotton growing season:...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
With cotton futures prices in the deferred months inching closer to 70 cents, and with grain markets substantially off their highs, it’s possible that cotton in the United States could start to win acreage back in 2010, according to Joe Nicosia, chief executive officer of Allenberg Cotton Co....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A July run up in cotton prices that occurred even as fundamentals for cotton were decidedly bearish was likely a big reason why analysts at the Cotton Roundtable in New York City were having a tough time projecting a potential range for December 2009 futures prices....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
At the halfway point of the 2009 U.S. cotton crop, analysts are saying the crop is shaping up to be between 12.42 million and 12.56 million bales, which is about 750,000 bales under USDA’s July 10 estimate. ...
U.S. production and consumption of cottonseed oil are expected to significantly increase this year, despite fewer cotton acres and a lower supply of cottonseed, says a spokesperson from the cottonseed crushing industry. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. corn and soybean crops grew larger, while rice production shrank from last month, according to USDA’s July 10 Crop Production Report and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates. ...
By Robert Burns, Texas A&M University
During the next few decades this year's summer of 100-plus temperatures and parched soils may represent the norm, not the exception, for much of Texas, said a climatology expert....
By Vic Schoonover, NTOK Cotton
The 2009 cotton crop is looking good, but needs a rain, says J. C. Banks, Oklahoma State University Extension state cotton specialist....
By Cary Blake, Farm Press Editorial Staff
“Cotton was my first love until I found wine grapes,” says Neal Newsom of Plains, Texas....
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