By Vic Schoonover for
NTOK Cotton
2009 WHEAT CROP LOSS will give farmers a chance to go to cotton as a replacement crop, but there are several factors to consider first, according to J.C. Banks, Oklahoma State University Extension state cotton specialist....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Roy Burns started farming on his own in Navarro County, near Corsicana, Texas, in 1977 with a $15,500 tractor and a $2,500 planter....
By Robert Coats and Jeffrey Hignight
Should you participate in the new optional counter-cyclical program ACRE? ...
Declining mill use is expected to cause another increase in world cotton stocks by the end of the 2009-2010 marketing year, the International Cotton Advisory Committee says. ...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Ask an American living in the city about U.S. agricultural subsidies and he or she is sure to go on and on and about how U.S. farm policy is destroying the livelihoods of poor farmers around the world....
The Cotton Economics Research Institute recently released “Crop Subsidies in Foreign Countries: Different Paths to Common Goals.” ...
By Vic Schoonover
NTOK Cotton
Failed wheat acres due to drought and late season freezing weather presents farmers with options for planting these acres to cotton, according to J.C. Banks, Oklahoma State University Extension state cotton specialist....
While 2009 cotton acreage is projected to decrease for the fourth consecutive year, to the lowest levels since 1983, experts anticipate that cottonseed prices will remain "surprisingly reasonable." ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Barry Evans makes a good case for a High Plains economy that includes significant cotton acreage. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
John Maguire says the money spent on farm bill programs is, by most any measure, a good deal for the American people as well as the U.S. economy and says the National Cotton Council will continue to urge Congress and the Obama administration to implement the 2008 law as it was intended....
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