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Cotton Grower Industry News
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Cotton’s Sustainability
For the last few years, some retailers and commercial apparel brands have been using the words “sustainable” and “organic cotton”…
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Beltwide’s Big Hitters
I love raw oysters. One block from my house in Memphis is the Half Shell restaurant. It has some of…
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Beltwide Luncheon Sound-Off 2007
What’s the final word on the 2006 cotton crop? How will the impending Farm Bill affect America’s growers? Where are…
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Module Averaging & Pooling
For many years, various trade organizations, universities and other entities have made efforts to boost cotton income with the development…
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New Farm Bill: Debate Begins
On January 31, in Washington, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced proposals for USDA’s 2007 Farm Bill. Then he hit the…
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Things I Thought, Read or Heard – And Maybe Something I Made Up.
I was in my orthopedic surgeon’s office the other day — an office I am seeing too much of lately,…
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Starbucks is Living Proof China Arrives in the 21st Century
There may not be one on every street corner — a la Manhattan — but when a country has a…
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Sometimes, I Get It Right
Sometimes I get it right. I actually do. But you know the drill: Blind hog. Acorn. Even a broken clock…
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Competitiveness: No Simple Solutions
With over half the cotton marketing year gone and a huge portion of the U.S. crop sitting in the loan…
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Gin Schools Accepting Registrations
Ginners wishing to attend one of the 2007 Ginners Schools still have opportunities to do so at the USDA gin…