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....
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 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 Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
You have a $2-million loan at a local bank. You and your lender are on good terms, or as good as that type of relationship normally allows....
By Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M University
Greater price volatility in agricultural markets is demanding producers develop better marketing skills to improve their bottom line, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service economist....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Following a lengthy dispute, the WTO Arbitration Panel has issued a ruling in favor of Brazilian claims that U.S. government payments to cotton farmers have been excessive. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Uncertainty over the size of the cotton crop in drought-stressed Texas, where over half of the U.S. crop is planted this season, will likely continue well into October, and perhaps November, according to experts speaking at the Ag Market Network August teleconference....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A July run up in cotton prices that occurred even as fundamentals for cotton were decidedly bearish was likely a big reason why analysts at the Cotton Roundtable in New York City were having a tough time projecting a potential range for December 2009 futures prices....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
At the halfway point of the 2009 U.S. cotton crop, analysts are saying the crop is shaping up to be between 12.42 million and 12.56 million bales, which is about 750,000 bales under USDA’s July 10 estimate. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Market opportunities for the 2009 corn crop and the 2009-2010 wheat harvest depend on factors as close to home as how much it rains in Iowa, as far off as how long it stays dry in Australia and as varied as how high or how low crude oil futures will move....
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