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Economy likely to flatten out in 2010

Mar 16, 2010 11:05 AM, By Ron Smith, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Well the world economy is at least reverting back to a flat trend following a hard dip the last few years into negative realms....

Reduced cotton stocks lifting prices

Feb 23, 2010 12:15 PM, By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Lower world cotton production and higher world consumption in 2009-10 has reduced world cotton stocks and contributed to the A-Index exceeding 80 cents in mid-February, according to a world and U.S. cotton outlook presented at USDA’s Agricultural Outlook Forum 2010 in Arlington, Va....

Weather and marketing seminars scheduled

Feb 19, 2010 8:22 AM, By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University

Farmers have to deal with varying weather conditions, but few know how to build that experience into a marketing plan. ...

China takes care of China

Feb 1, 2010 10:57 AM, By Daryll E. Ray, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

It would not be a stretch to assert that Chinese imports have driven the recent growth in soybean production and exports by the US, Brazil, and Argentina. ...

Grain markets tied to oil, economy

Nov 17, 2009 11:37 AM, By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff

2008 was a heady year for Pat Westhoff and other analysts at the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute....

Cotton market focusing on supply, quality

Nov 13, 2009 11:23 AM, 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. ...

Still plenty of cotton in the world

Oct 15, 2009 10:51 AM, 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. ...


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News from the Farm Bill

Wide gap remains in SRA

Feb 25, 2010 12:45 PM

SRA funding reductions unrealistic...

ACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmers

Jul 11, 2008 10:01 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ...

Farm bill: Several provisions delayed until 2009

Jul 8, 2008 9:38 AM

The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 that U.S. farmers will be hitched to for the next five years has something old, something new, something borrowed and certainly something to make a few farmers blue....

USDA issues advance direct payments

Jul 8, 2008 9:21 AM

America's farmers will receive up to $1.15 billion in 2008 advance direct payments that began July 7....



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