The International Cotton Advisory Committee is projecting world cotton production will fall 5 percent to 103 million bales in the 2009-10 marketing year; potentially sending cotton prices 9 percent higher....
Compiled by Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. cotton acreage may have taken a hit recently due to improved economics for corn and soybeans, but cotton breeders and technology companies have stepped up efforts to narrow the gap through advancements in yield, quality and resistance to pests....
By Robert Burns, Texas A&M University
Though cooler weather slowed down the advance of armyworms, the pest is still eating up pastures and small grain fields in many parts of the state, report Texas AgriLife Extension Service personnel. ...
A request for a blanket extension of the stalk destruction deadline for the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, Inc., Zone 3, Area 1 and Area 2 be extended to October 29, for the 2009 crop year only, has been granted....
Speakers painted a “cautiously optimistic” outlook for U.S. agriculture at Farm Bureau’s mid-October commodity outlook conference, in Albuquerque, N.M. ...
By Shawn Wade, Plains Cotton Growers, Inc.
The USDA objective yield survey results collected between September 24 and October 6 have lowered 2009-crop cotton yield expectations and dropped projected cotton production in the High Plains region by 330,000 bales....
As quickly as cash disappeared from dairy farms in 2009, so too did forward contracts for feed. ...
By Cary Blake, Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. cotton prices in 2009-2010 are expected to flounder between 57 and 65 cents per pound as the U.S. tries to market a crop of about 13 million bales, according to Jarral Neeper, president of Calcot, the grower-owned cotton marketing cooperative based in Bakersfield, Calif....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Extremes of weather throughout the growing and harvest seasons have prompted USDA to lower projections for the 2009 U.S. cotton crop. ...
By Robert Burns, Texas A&M University
Following rains, armyworms marched in and devoured improved pastures and wheat throughout the state. ...
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