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Cotton’s Keepers
Talk of reopening and revising the 2008 Farm Bill has come early and often since President Barack Obama took office…
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The Fickle Fate of Mother Nature
Mother Nature is fickle, and this year she proved once again just how much. This year’s cotton crop across the…
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“Newest” Greatest Limiting Factors
The dynamics of the spider mite in the Mid-South have evolved. Once considered an insect that showed up mostly in…
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Out of Disasters Come Opportunities
The 2009 China International Cotton Conference was held in the historic city of Nanjing, China, in mid-June with the theme…
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Cotton May Extend Drop as Chinese Equities Slide
Bloomberg Cotton may extend this month’s price decline because of slumping equities in China, the biggest user and importer of…
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Pushing Sensors To The Next Level
On-the-go crop sensor technology has been the subject of development and research for more than a decade, and for good…
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Australia’s Largest Cotton Property Seeks International Buyer
The owners of Australia’s biggest cotton property, Cubbie Station, say they’ve already offered to sell to the Federal Government, but…
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Democrats Begin to Turn on Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Bill
Cap-and-trade legislation to limit U.S. carbon dioxide emissions has “gotten out of control” and needs to be scaled back in…
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Louisiana Production Up Despite Lower Acreage
Associated Press Cotton production in Louisiana is expected to hit 420,000 bales this year, up sharply from 2008 when the…
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USDA: Corn and Soybean Crops May Deflate Price Boom
via Reuters U.S. farmers this year will reap their largest soybean crop ever and their second-largest corn crop, mammoth harvests…