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New Innovations Could Give Growers Bigger Bottom Lines in 2007
With the 2006 growing season in the past and the 2007 harvest almost a year away, cotton farmers wind down…
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Beltwide Time
The annual Beltwide Cotton Conferences are the cotton industry’s signal that a new crop year has begun. These conferences are…
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A 50/50 Proposition
I loath “have you ever noticed” columns and monologues. So forgive me for asking, have you ever noticed that toddlers…
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The Fickle Winds Of 2006
What seasons of extremes 2005 and 2006 were. After drowning in the monsoon-like rains of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in…
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Relating To Chinese Consumers the Benefits of Cotton
Most U.S. cotton producers are aware that China is the world’s largest cotton-producing country, but many producers may not know…
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Let’s Be Positive, Folks
There’s assuredly no shortage of bad news across wires these days. TV, radio, blogs, friends at the PTA meeting and…
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Consumption: It’s About China
U.S. market conditions are obscured by a combination of political and supply and demand forces worldwide. Foreign crop size is…
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A View From the Top
The U.S. cotton market is facing serious challenges, from increasingly sophisticated global competition to the specter of a new Farm…
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Us Against The World And Us Against Us?
I grew up and spent a fair amount of my adult life in Belzoni, Mis’sippi, on the banks of the…
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From HAL To PDA
The movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” introduced us to a talking computer named HAL. If you saw the movie, you…