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Cotton Grower Industry News
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Spying On Crop Residue
Daughtry is an agronomist and Doraiswamy an agricultural meteorologist with the ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland.…
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Spectrum Adds NDVI Meter
Plant stress in early growing stages can be difficult to detect to the naked eye, but plants will provide clues…
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Web Site Offers Variety of Crop, Weather Analysis Tools
The Stormx Agriculture site offers a wider range of functionality that includes the following: – Crop yield mapping, including historical…
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Happy to Split My Shorts
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) says cotton plantings for 2009 will be 8.81 acres, down 7% from last year…
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Farm Program Cuts Not Recommended
The House (233 to 196) and the Senate (55 to 43) enacted their respective versions of the 2010 Fiscal Year…
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Mid-South Acreage Down, but Not as Much as Expected
The USDA March 31 Prospective Plantings report did not reveal as dramatic a drop in 2009 cotton acres as expected.…
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High Plains Expects Rise in Cotton Acres
Despite declining cotton acreage nationally and statewide, farmers on the High Plains are projected to grow more cotton to replace…
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Strength of Brazilian Currency Means Real Problems For Cotton
If the estimates of Brazil’s 2006/07 cotton output and trade remain at their current levels, the country will be poised…
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China’s Cotton Association Calls for Global Cooperation
China may be considered a “developing” country, but that moniker can be misleading. “Developing” doesn’t mean small, and it doesn’t…
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Cheaper U.S. Cotton Appeals to Indian Textile Companies
Kalpesh Damor Ahmedabad High-priced Indian cotton is on a losing streak both in the global and domestic markets. Firm cotton…
