By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mark Lange, president and CEO, National Cotton Council, readily admits that the U.S. cotton industry faces some tough times....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Extreme volatility in cotton prices in 2008 not only hurt producer confidence in the futures market, but eventually led to a loss of 30 percent of U.S. merchandizing capacity, according to Gary Taylor, president and CEO of Cargill Cotton Co., in Cordova, Tenn., speaking at the 2009 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in San Antonio....
By J.D. Bilbro
Contributing Writer
The Texas High Plains 2008 cotton crop will not match the 2007 crop and will be smaller than earlier predictions....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Steven Beakley, board member for the North Blacklands Boll Weevil Eradication Zone, says he wouldn’t have made anywhere near the 575 pound per acre yield produced in 2008 had it not been for boll weevil eradication....
The 12th annual National Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference is slated for Jan. 26-27 in Marksville, La....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Times are tough in the cotton industry, but cotton producers have overcome challenges in the past and can do so again if they will stick together, the winner of the 2009 High Cotton Award for the Southwest says....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. cotton producers may be taking it on the chin in the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round, but it might be even worse if they didn’t have strong, articulate spokesmen to defend them....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Danny Locke is known as a wrangler and horseman as much as he is recognized as a successful cotton farmer....
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Mike Tate appreciates the rich legacy of his family’s north Alabama farming operation, but he also keeps a keen eye towards the future, and it’s that vision that has earned him the 2009 Farm Press High Cotton Award for the Southeast region....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton producers have become accustomed to having their prices whipsawed by events on the other side of the world. ...
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