Recent Cotton Articles

Late-season rains beneficial to Southeast

Oct 14, 2008 9:21 AM, By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff

While rainfall from tropical storms has been beneficial to some areas of the Southeast this year, other areas remain dry. ...

U.S. cotton crop continues to shrink

Oct 13, 2008 9:14 AM, By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Louisiana has lost over 35 percent of its cotton crop to hurricanes and other weather maladies, according to USDA’s Oct. 10 crop production report....

Slowing weed resistance a challenge

Oct 10, 2008 9:45 AM, By Roy Roberson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Growers in the upper Southeast continue to battle back against the growing problem of weed resistance to herbicides. ...

Kent Wannamaker is Sunbelt Farmer of the Year for South Carolina

Oct 9, 2008 9:44 AM

Kendall “Kent” Wannamaker of St. Matthews, S.C., is proof that a farmer can get a strong start in farming by renting land for growing crops, even with little in the way of initial financial resources. ...

Harvest progress varies across upper Southeast

Oct 7, 2008 3:08 PM

A combination of recent rainfall and a delayed planting season last spring has Virginia growers running to catch up with harvest. ...

Cotton harvest progressing in lower Southeast

Oct 7, 2008 9:44 AM

A week of dry weather allowed lower Southeast growers to make rapid progress with cotton harvest. ...

U.S. seeks monitoring of Chinese textile imports

Oct 7, 2008 9:32 AM

Cotton Belt congressional members have joined their colleagues and the U.S. cotton and textile industry in a call to broaden a key textile import monitoring program....


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News from the Farm Bill

House votes to suspend base acre provision

Sep 26, 2008 9:14 AM

The House passed legislation supported by both parties that would suspend for the 2008 and 2009 crop years a farm bill provision that required producers to have a minimum of 10-base acres to receive program benefits. ...

Senators, ag secretary spar over ACRE provisions

Sep 16, 2008 10:21 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

A group of farm-state senators led by Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin is asking Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer to stop trying to re-write the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 through the regulations implementing the new farm bill....

ACRE could be boon or bust for southern farmers

Jul 15, 2008 9:34 AM, By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The chairmen of the House and the Senate Agriculture Committees and the Bush administration couldn’t find much to agree on in the 2008 farm bill. ...

Farm bill, flooding: Economist Daryll Ray

Jul 9, 2008 9:57 AM, By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

After the first round of producer organization-sponsored farm bill meetings, Southeast farmers still have plenty of questions about the new legislation....

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