By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Improving yield and quality remain top priorities for cottonseed research for the combined forces of Monsanto and Delta and Pine Land Co., but achieving those goals also includes adding new transgenic traits and identifying more stress tolerant varieties....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Things change quickly in the cotton industry, especially with new varieties....
By Steve Byrns
Texas A&M University
Texas AgriLife Research cotton experts working in the “world’s biggest cotton patch” have a silent thief under surveillance who often makes off with a quarter of the southern High Plains cotton crop annually – and like any successful theft, its done without most of the victims even knowing it....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton farmers or seed company research scientists shouldn’t assume that recent improvements in yield potential have reached a plateau....
Most of the state continued to suffer from low soil-moisture levels, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The biggest challenge for an independent, regional cottonseed company is acquiring transgenic traits for proprietary varieties, but Cody Poage, manager of All-Tex Seed Co. in Levelland, Texas, says he’ll sit down with any of the big companies to discuss the possibilities....
By Vic Schoonover
NTOK Cotton
Cotton harvest in the Texas Rolling Plans around Stamford is slowly, and in some cases, painfully, getting under way....
By Robert Burns
Texas A&M University
Large parts of the state continued to experience drought or abnormally dry weather, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service reports....
Cotton Belt congressional members joined their colleagues and the U.S. cotton and textile industry in a call to broaden a key textile import monitoring program....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Commodity Credit Corp. has approved new regulations that could make it easier for cotton producers to redeem marketing loans on their 2007 crop and possibly return a little extra money when they do. ...
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