What is in this article?:
- Cotton riding a lively bull
- Asian weather
- Fundamentals
- Resistant weeds
- An abstract bull
- Cotton prices push even higher
- Indian textile industry requests cotton export halt
- Chinese cotton takes another hit with frost
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Resistant weeds
Before Mid-South growers move back into major cotton acreage, they’ll need to factor in the cost of dealing with a burgeoning population of glyphosate-resistant weeds.
With current wheat, corn and bean prices “it will take 90 cent cotton” to bump up Delta cotton acreage, said Kenneth Hood, a north Mississippi producer who was also on the call.
“This resistant-weed thing in cotton is very, very serious,” said Hood. “I farm 100 miles south of Memphis and the resistant-weed problem is continually growing into a wider and wider area. Two or three years ago, you didn’t see much of it. Today, (resistant weeds) are in almost every cotton field. The cost of production is going to affect us.”
