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FSA Announces Sequester-Based Changes to 2013 Crop Marketing Assistance Loans
USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) has announced several adjustments to commodity loan programs due to automatic funding reductions known as…
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Striking Mannequins Take Cotton Or Nothing Message to the Streets
As models began walking the runways of New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, mannequins in the Meatpacking District began…
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Cotton Crop Speeding Toward Harvest
It was a good week for moving the 2013 cotton crop toward the finish line, based on numbers included in…
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Cotton Prices Inch Higher on Yield and Quality Concerns
Cotton prices moved higher on the week as weather concerns took center stage, market fundamentals took on a northbound trajectory,…
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USDA: Eleven Percent Increase in Open Bolls in Past Week
The 2013 cotton crop is still running two-to-three weeks behind schedule, but it’s working hard to catch up, based on…
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Cotton Market Holds Steady in a Quiet Week
They may have been making lemonade in New York last week. They certainly were not trading cotton, thus there must…
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China Unveils Tanzanian Investment Plan
The Chinese ambassador to Tanzania, Lu Youqing, unveiled a cotton investment plan to construct cotton gins in the Shinyanga region…
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Britain Lends Expertise to Bangladesh Garment Sector
According to Justine Greening, UK’s secretary of state for international development, British experts will go to Bangladesh to help improve…
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Popular Fibre Session Highlights Opening Day of ITMF Conference
The Fibre Session is one of the most eagerly awaited highlights of each year’s conference of the International Textile Manufacturers…
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Report: Tarantula Venom Potential Cotton Bioinsecticide
Spider venoms are usually toxic when injected into prey, but a new protein discovered in the venom of Australian tarantulas…