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....
By Vic Schoonover for NTOK cotton
Cotton ginning is well along in southwestern Oklahoma and just beginning farther north. ...
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....
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. ...
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....
By Vic Schoonover, NTOK Cotton
Conserving irrigation water from the receding Seymour Aquifer is a big concern for Gary Tidwell who has a 2,500-acre cotton crop near Munday, Texas....
By Robert Burns, Texas A&M University
In some areas, rains let up and fields dried, allowing agricultural producers to get back into fields for planting and harvesting, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel....
As quickly as cash disappeared from dairy farms in 2009, so too did forward contracts for feed. ...
By Robert Burns, Texas A&M University
Many parts of Texas had excessive rain, taking them from drought to flood, but overall it's a good thing, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Service experts....
Tuesday, Nov. 10 is the last day cotton producers can vote in the current Cotton Research and Promotion Act referendum....
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